Saul Cornell

Consequences mattered to the Founders—and that meant early American judges upheld major gun restrictions.

They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.

Regulations limiting armed travel in public, particularly in populous areas, stretch back over seven centuries.

It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.

The persistence of a mythic second amendment in contemporary Constitutional culture.

How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.

A Second Amendment scholar makes the case that gun restrictions are not a recent phenomenon.

The real history of the Second Amendment.

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.

The idea of an unfettered right to carry weapons in public originates in the antebellum South, and its culture of violence and honor.