Pennsylvania and Federal Gun Laws and Second Amendment Law Reviews

State Book "Pennsylvania Laws Relating to Firearms"    (8.7 meg) Pennsylvania Laws under Title 18: Section 6102 - Definitions Section 6103 - Crimes Committed With Firearms Section 6104 - Evidence of Intent Section 6105 - Persons Not to Possess, Use, Manufacture, Control, Sell or Transfer Firearms Section 6106 - Firearms not to be carried without a license Section 6106.1 - Carrying Loaded Weapons Other Than Firearms Section 6107 - Prohibited Conduct During an Emergency Section 6108 - Carrying Firearms on Public Streets or Public Property in Philadelphia Section 6109 - Licenses Section 6110.1 - Possession of Firearm by Minor Section 6110.2 - Possession of Firearms With Altered Manufacturer's Number Section 6111 - Sale or Transfer of Firearms Section 6111.1 - Pennsylvania State Police Section 6111.2 - Firearm Sales Surcharge Section 6111.3 - Firearm Instant Records Check Fund Section 6111.4 - Registration of Firearms Section 6111.5 - Rules and Regulations Section 6112 - Retail Dealer Required to be Licensed Section 6113 - Licensing of Dealers Section 6114 - Judicial Review Section 6115 - Loans on, or Lending or Giving Firearms Prohibited Section 6116 - False Evidence of Identity Section 6117 - Altering or Obliterating Marks of Identification Section 6118 - Antique Firearms Section 6119 - Violation Penalty Section 6120 - Limitation on Municipal Regulation of Firearms and Ammunition Section 6121 - Certain Bullets Prohibited Section 6122 - Proof of License and Exception Section 6123 - Waiver of Disability or Pardons Section 6124 - Administrative Regulations Section 6125 - Distribution of Uniform Firearms Laws & Firearms Safety Brochures Section 6126 - Firearms Background Check Advisory Committee Section 6127 - Firearm Tracing Section 6141.1 - Purchase of Firearms in Contiguous States Section 6142 - Locking Device for Firearms Federal Firearms Laws Link Second Amendment Law Reviews: Amar - The Bill of Rights as a Constitution Ansell - Legal and Historical Aspects of the Militia Ashcroft Takes Steps to Make His Stance on the Second Amendment Official Policy Barnett - The Relevance of the Framers Intent Barnett - Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment Batey - Strict Construction of Firearms Offenses: The Supreme Court and the Gun Control Act or 1968 Beard - National Coalition to Ban Handguns Statement on the Second Amendment Blodgett - Do Battered Women Have a Right to Bear Arms? Bursor - Toward a Functional Framework for Interpreting the Second Amendment Cantrell - The Right to Bear Arms: A Reply Caplan - Restoring the Balance: The Second Amendment Revisited Caplan - The Right of the Individual to Bear Arms: A Recent Judicial Trend Cochran - A Fighting Chance for Outlaws: Strict Scrutiny of North Carolina's Felony Firearms Act Cottrol - The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration [*] Cottrol - The Fifth Auxiliary Right Cottrol - "Never Intended to be Applied to the White Population": Firearms Regulation and Racial Disparity - The Redeemed South's Legacy to a National Jurisprudence? [*] Cramer - The Racist Roots of Gun Control Denning - It Takes a Militia: A Communitarian Case for Compulsory Arms Bearing Denning - Can the Simple Cite be Trusted?: Lower Court Interpretations of United States -v- Millet and the Second Amendment Denning - Palladium of Liberty?: Causes and Consequences of the Federalization of State Militias in the Twentieth Century Denning - Professional Discourse, The Second Amendment and the "Talking Head Constitutionalism" Counterrevolution: A Review Essay Dennis - Clearing the Smoke From the Right to Bear Arms and the Second Amendment Department of State - The Right to Bear Arms Dillon - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms for Private and Public Defense Dorf - "Use" and the Irresistible Impulse to Legislate Dowlut - Federal and State Constitutional Guarantees to Arms Dowlut - Bearing Arms in State Bills of Rights, Judicial Interpretation, and Public Housing Dowlut - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: A Right to Self-Defense Against Criminals and Despots Dowlut - The Right to Arms: Does the Constitution or the Predilection of Judges Reign? Dowlut - State Constitutions and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Dred Scott -v- John Sanford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) Emerson - "Guns and the Constitution" - WSJ Emory - The Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Featherstone - The Second Amandment to the United States Constitution Guarantees an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms 186 FOPA Congressional Findings Funk - Gun Control and Economic Discrimination: The Melting Point Case-In-Point Funk - Is the True Meaning of the Second Amendment Really Such a Riddle? Tracing the Historical "Origins of an Angelo-American Right" Gardiner - To Preserve Liberty - A Look at the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Gottlieb - Gun Ownership: A Constitutional Right Halbrook - The Fourteenth Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: The Intent of the Framers Halbrook - Personal Security. Personal Liberty, and "The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms": Visions of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment Halbrook - Second-Class Citizenship and the Second Amendment in the District of Columbia Halbrook - The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment Halbrook - Congress Interprets the Second Amendment: Declarations by a Co-Equal Branch on the Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms Halbrook - What the Framers intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to "Bear Arms" Halbrook - The Jurisprudence of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments Halbrook - Encroachments of the Crown on Liberty of the Subject: Pre-Revolutionary Origins of the Second Amendment Halbrook - The Right to Bear Arms in the First State Bills of Rights: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, and Massachusetts Halbrook - To Keep and Bear Thier Private Arms: The Adoption of the Second Amendment, 1787-1791 Halbrook - The Right to Bear Arms in Texas: The Intent of the Framers of the Bill of Rights Halbrook - Heller, The Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or only Militiamen? Hardy - The Second Amendment and the Historiography of the Bill of Rights Hardy - The Firearms Owners' Protection Act: A Historical and Legal Perspective Hardy - Armed Citizens, Citizen Armies: Toward a Jurisprudence of the Second Amendment Hardy - Historical Bases of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Henigan - The Second Amendment in the Twentieth Century: Have You Seen Your Militia Lately? Henigan - Arms, Anarchy and the Second Amendment Johnson - Beyond the Second Amendment: An Individual Right to Arms Viewed Through the Nineth Amendment Johnson - Principles and Passions: The Intersection of Abortion and Gun Rights [*] Kates - The Second Amendment: A Dialogue Kates - The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection Kates - Bigotry, Symbolism and Ideology in the Battle over Gun Control Kates - Gun Control: A Realistic Assessment Kates - Gun Control: Separating Reality from Symbolism Kates - Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence or Pandemic of Propaganda Kates - Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Seconf Amendment Kates - The Value of Civilian Handgun Possession as a Deterrant to Crime or a Defense Against Crime Kates - Under Fire: The New Consensus on the Second Amendment Kates-Mauser - Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? Kleck - BATF Gun Trace Data and the Role of Organized Gun Trafficking in Supplying Guns to Criminals Kopel - Rational Basis of "Assault Weapon" Prohibition Kopel - It Isn't about Duck Hunting: The British Origins of the Right to Arms Kopel - Canadian Gun Control: Should the United States Look North for a Solution to It's Firearms Problem Kopel - Preventing a Reign of Terror: Civil Liberties Implications of Terrorism Legislation Kopel - Clueless: The Misuse of BATF Firearms Tracing Data Kopel - Communitarians, Neorepublicans, and Guns: Assessing the case for Firearms Prohibition Kopel - A tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Supreme Courts Kopel - "Shall Issue": The New Wave of Concealed Handgun Permit Laws Kopel - Point/Counterpoint: Treating Guns Like Consumer Products Kopel - Japanese Gun Control Kopel - LAwyers, Guns and Burglars Kopel - Lethal Laws Kopel - Can Soldiers be Peace Officers? The Waco Disaster and the Militarization of American Law Enforcement Kopel - Miller versus Texas: Police Violence, Race Relations,Capital Punishment, and Gun-Toting in Texas in the Nineteenth Century--and Today Kopel - The Evolving Police Power: Some Observations for a New Century Kopel - The Brady Bill Comes Due: The Prinz Case and State Autonomy Kopel - *285 Peril or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of Handgun Prohibition Kopel - The Self-Defense Cases: How the United States Supreme Court Confronted a Hanging Judge in the Nineteenth Century and Taught Some Lessoms for Jurisprudence in the Twenty-First Kopel - Smart Guns/Foolish Legislators: Finding the Right Public Safety Laws, and Avoiding the Wrong Ones Kopel - What State Constitutions Teach About the Second Amemdment Kopel - The Sullivan Principles: Protecting the Second Amendment from Civil Abuse Kopel - A Tale of Three Cities: The Right to Bear Arms in State Supreme Courts Kopel - Point/Counterpoint: Treating Guns Like Consumer Products Kopel - The Supreme Court's Thirty-Five Other Cases: What the Supreme Court Has Said About the Second Amendment - Part 1 Kopel - (above) Part 2 Kopel - (above) Part 3 Kopel - Self Defense: The Equalizer Kopel - The Torah and Self Defense Kopel - The Licensing of Concealed Handguns for Lawful Protection: Support from 5 State Supreme Courts Lash - A Textual-Historical Theory of the Ninth Amendment Lash - The Lost Jurisprudence of the Ninth Amendment Lash - The Lost Original Meaning of the Ninth Amendment Lash - The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Part I: "Privileges and Immunities" as an Antebellum Term of Art Lash - The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, Part II: John Bingham's Epiphany Law Proffessors Levin - The Right to Bear Arms: The Development of the American Experience Levinson - The Embarrassing Second Amendment Lund - A Primer on the Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Lund - The Ends of Second Amendment Jurisprudence: Firearms Disabilities and Domestic Violence Restraining Orders Lund - The Past and Future of the Individual's Rights to Arms Lund - The Second Amendment, Political Liberty, and the Right to Self-Preservation Malcolm - The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law Tradition Malcolm - Moncure - Who is the Militia - The Virginia Ratification Convention and the Right to Bear Arms Olsen - All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun Prohibition in England and Some Lessons for Civil Liberties in America Polsby - Of Holocausts and Gun Control Powe - Guns, Words, and Constitutional Interpretation Quinlan - Is There a Neutral Justification for Refusing to Implement the Second Amendment or is the Supreme Court Just "Gun Shy"? Reynolds - The Second Amendment and States Rights: A Thought Experiment Reynolds - A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment Reynolds - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Under the Tennessee Constitution: A Case Study in Civic Republican Thought 1982 Comittee on Federal Legislation - Gun Control Legislation 1982 Committee Print - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms 1982 Committee Print - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (*2) Shalhope - The Armed Citizen in the Early Republic Shalhope - The Ideological Origins of the Second Amendment Sprecher - The Lost Amendment Sprecher - The Lost Amendment - Part 2 Steinberg - Does the Second Amendment Mean What it Says? Tahmassebi - Gun Control and Racism Van Alstyne - The Second Amendment and the Personal Right to Arms Vandercoy - The History of the Second Amendment Volokh - Sources on the Second Amendment and Rights to Keep and Bear Arms in State Constitutions Volokh - The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes Volokh - The Commonplace Second Amendment Volokh - The Amazing Vanishing Second Amendment Weatherup - Standing Armies and Armed Citizens: An Historical Analysis of the Second Amendment Weiss - A Reply to Advocates of Gun-Control Law Williams - Civic Republicanism and the Citizen Militia: The Terrifying Second Amendment Williams - The Militia Movement and Second Amendment Revolution: Conjuring With the People Williams - The Unitary Second Amendment