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More on Bellesiles’ latest
James Lindgren reports on his more extensive investigation . He submits that Chronicles of Higher Education, which published B’s article, at this point must ask him for proof, because every indicator is that his article is fiction.
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Story here . I can understand that he doesn’t seem to like textualism — stick to the words, that’s what was agreed upon — nor original understanding — words explained by our best understanding of what they were meant to be
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A British sniper in Afghanistan has scored two one-shot kills at 1.54 miles , on a pair of Taliban machinegunners. (The reference in the article to an 8.59 mm bullet is actually a reference to the .338 Lapua Magnum version of the British L115A1 rifle
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Snowflakes in Hell has some thoughts on the effect of a conviction and then pardon in State A, on the person’s gun rights if he moves to State B.
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Good riddance . Some legislators, while wanting to violate Article I, thought giving up violating the 2nd Amendment was too high a price
Full StoryReminds me of my government days
At Interior (1982-1992) I chiefly represented Fish and Wildlife Service. And this article reminds me of the type of strange cases we had
Full StoryYet another trip in the time machine
Here’s an OCR’d version (there may be typos) of my 1974 Chicago-Kent Law Review article on the Second Amendment. By modern standards, it’s quite limited. But it was a start
Full StorySubsequent history
After that article, the sequence went something like this: Dave Caplan published one in 1977, Don Kates and Steve Halbrook and Joyce Malcolm came in in 1978-79. Halbrook, Malcolm, Kates and I put out a number of articles in the lesser law reviews over the next few years
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“Whence Comes Section One? The Abolitionist Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment.” It explores the many ways in which abolitionist legal thought influenced the 14th Amendment. The leadership of the 39th Congress were abolitionists to a man, and shared legal understandings that did not require explanation.
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