The Supreme Court and the right to bear arms: an explainer

The Supreme Court and the right to bear arms: an explainer

The Second Amendment is an area of law with many open questions. The amendment itself states that “[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In the previous article of this Second Amendment explainer series, I explored how the Supreme Court has decided who qualifies as part of “the people.”In this article, I examine what, according to the c…