Firearms Law
and the Second Amendment:
Regulation, Rights,
and Policy
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Aspen Publishers, published March 8, 2012. The first law school textbook on the Second Amendment. Aspen Publishers web page for the book. Professors can order free review copies there. Buy it from Amazon.com in hardcover or Kindle format. Discounted price! |
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2015 Supplement
The 2015 Supplement has arrived! It is available on Aspen's Professor Materials page and is free to the book's users.
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Online Chapters
The online chapters have arrived! Available individually and in one combined file are the Table of Contents, and Chapters 12 through 15!
Table of Contents and Front Matter
Chapter 13 – International Law
Chapter 15 – In-Depth Explanation of Firearms and Ammunition
Combined Online Chapters (Table of Contents, Front Matter, and Chapters 12-15)
About the Authors
Nicholas J. Johnson
David B. Kopel
George A. Mocsary
Michael P. O'Shea
Podcasts
Federalist Society Faculty Division podcast. Authors Johnson and O'Shea discussed the book with UCLA's Adam Winkler. 34 minutes.
Chapter Podcasts
In this series, co-author David Kopel discusses the first seven chapters with Justin Longo of iVoices.org. The questions are from the perspective of a intelligent lay person who is interested in firearms law and policy. The textbook itself tends to be neutral on most controversial questions; that is, the readings speak for themselves, while the printed Questions that follow the reading attempt to engage the reader with important issues, rather than directing the reader to a "correct" answer. In the podcast series, we go further, and Kopel provides some answers from his own perspective. Each of these should be considered one, rather than the only, way to interpret the materials.
Chapter 1. A Brief Introduction to Firearms and their Regulation. MP3.
Chapter 2. Antecedents of the Second Amendment: From Confucius to the British Whigs. MP3.
Chapter 3. The Colonies and the Revolution. MP3.
Chapter 4. The new Constitution and the Second Amendment. MP3.
Chapter 5. The Early Republic, and the Antebellum Era. MP3.
Chapter 6. Reconstruction and the late 19th Century. MP3.
Chapter 7. A New and Dangerous Century. MP3.
Student Research Tools
Videos of news reports of defensive gun uses (referenced at the end of Chapter 12.C.2.).
Teacher's Manual
Available from the Professor Materials page for the textbook, on the Aspen website. Available as a free .pdf download for professors who are registered in the Aspen system. 334 pages.
