Knives and the Second Amendment

Abstract:     
Recent scholarship and decisions have recognized that firearms are protected by the Second Amendment, both from infringement by the federal government, as well as state and local governments. There has been little recent attention paid to the question of whether knives and other edged weapons are appropriately classified as “arms” that enjoy similar Second Amendment protection. This paper reopens the question in light of recent developments in Second Amendment jurisprudence.

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