Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations (Final)

Reynolds, Glenn  Harlan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2002132

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Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations (Final)

Glenn Harlan Reynolds

University of Tennessee College of Law

February 9, 2012

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 247, 2012
University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 169

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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.

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Keywords: second amendment, right to arms, keep and bear arms, guns, firearms, penumbras, griswold, heller, mcdonald, right to carry, in terrorem

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Date posted: February 11, 2012 ; Last revised: February 22, 2012

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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: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2002132 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2002132

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