Second Amendment

A new book about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing traces the path from Ronald Reagan’s antigovernment ideology to today’s radicalized right.

Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute?

Our country's legal history renders the teen's case familiar if not inevitable.

Regulations limiting armed travel in public, particularly in populous areas, stretch back over seven centuries.

History shows that the text is far more complex than the legal doctrine might indicate.

West Virginians left Virginia to ensure that the people's voices were heard, not to benefit special interests at the expense of democracy.

Who gets to decide what the Constitution really means?

Conservatives and liberals both cite the nation’s charter, but they’re not talking about the same parts of it.

Conservatives have claimed the moral high ground of so-called originalism. Liberals need to put forward their own vision.

Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.

What the government's successful clampdown on Quaaludes can teach us about gun control.

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.

How did a firearm safety and training organization turn into one of America's largest and most influential lobbying groups?

One of the great pieces of unfinished business for the Democratic Party.