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The Year of the Gun: Second Amendment Rights and the Supreme Court

Glenn Harlan Reynolds
University of Tennessee College of Law

Brannon P. Denning
Cumberland School of Law



Texas Law Review, Forthcoming

Abstract:     
This Essay looks at issues that the Supreme Court can duck - and those that it can't - in deciding the District of Columbia Second Amendment case, D.C. v. Heller. It also looks at political and institutional pressures placed on the Supreme Court by the Heller case.

Keywords: heller, parker, district of columbia, firearms, guns, second amendment

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Date posted: January 17, 2008 ; Last revised: January 17, 2008

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Reynolds, Glenn Harlan and Denning, Brannon P., The Year of the Gun: Second Amendment Rights and the Supreme Court. Texas Law Review, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1084924


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Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Contact Author)
University of Tennessee College of Law ( email )
1505 West Cumberland Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37996-1810
United States
865-974-6744 (Phone)
Brannon P. Denning
Cumberland School of Law ( email )
800 Lakeshore Dr.
Birmingham, AL 35229
United States
205-726-2413 (Phone)
205-726-4060 (Fax)
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