Why So Silent? The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment Debate After DC v. Heller
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) the Supreme Court appeared to give to gun rights activists what they had campaigned for since the 1970s: a ruling that the Second Amendment encompassed an individual right to bear arms for the purposes of self-defence. But as the debate about gun rights retu...
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European Association for American Studies
2017-02-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11874 |