Amid today's heated debates about gun laws and the Second Amendment, what many people may not realize is that the phrase "the right to keep and to bear arms" is older than the Bill of Rights.

WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to the bans on semiautomatic ...

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Modern debates about the meaning of the Second ...

Professor Robert Leider and I have a new article on the right to keep and bear arms available on SSRN. It is called The General Law Right to Bear Arms and it is part of a symposium in the Notre ...

The government spends hundreds of billions of dollars annually just to watch and follow us. Who authorized this?

They can try to silence us but our Founding Fathers knew that was always something tyrants try, which is why the right to keep and bear arms is right there in the Bill of Rights. Europeans ...

This holding restored the right to bear arms across the country and gives hope that many other firearm restrictions — including several that have previously been upheld by courts — will be repealed or ...

Militias aside, there is also the “keep and bear” part of the 2nd ... those who brandished “secret arms and weapons” threatened the “essential right of every free citizen” to live ...

Iowa voters have adopted an amendment to the Iowa Constitution to add the right “to keep and bear arms," adding language that goes beyond the protections contained in the U.S. Constitution's ...

Only three countries in the world currently have a constitutional right to own a gun: the US, Mexico, and Guatemala. Six other countries used to have a constitutional right to bear arms, but they ...

Iowans voted "yes" for Amendment 1 to change the state's constitution to give citizens a right to keep and bear arms. Ballot measure details Amendment 1 added the following text to the state's ...