This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Constitutional Law

Oct. 21, 2024

The death of the 2nd Amendment: Part III - Scalia's 'history'

Justice Antonin Scalia's historical arguments, which sought to demonstrate that the Second Amendment's wording supported individual gun rights, relied on NRA-sponsored research that was contested by other scholars.

Shutterstock

My last column summarized how Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), used the text of the Second Amendment to support his conclusion that it protected not only the use o...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Sign up for Daily Journal emails