Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations (Final)

14 Pages Posted: 11 Feb 2012 Last revised: 22 Feb 2012

Date Written: February 9, 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

Suggested Citation

Reynolds, Glenn Harlan, Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations (Final) (February 9, 2012). Southern California Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 247, 2012, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 169, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2002132 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2002132

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Contact Author)

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