Article
Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations
Southern California Law Review
(2012)
Abstract
With the Second Amendment now a working part of the Bill Of Rights in the wake of the Supreme Court's decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, this brief Essay examines the likely extent of penumbral rights under the Second Amendment, as well as the possible effect on unenumerated rights in general of an enforceable right to arms.
Keywords
- second amendment,
- right to arms,
- keep and bear arms,
- guns,
- firearms,
- penumbras,
- griswold,
- heller,
- mcdonald,
- right to carry,
- in terrorem
Disciplines
Publication Date
January, 2012
Citation Information
Glenn Reynolds. "Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations" Southern California Law Review Vol. 85 Iss. 2 (2012) p. 247 - 260 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/glenn-reynolds/44/