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(0)Patrick J Charles
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
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Description
"After John F. Kennedy was shot and killed with a rifle purchased through a mail-order magazine, Congress enacted and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA), regulating firearms under interstate commerce. The politics of firearms controls suddenly underwent a formative transformation. Though the politics of firearms controls date as far back as the late nineteenth century, and though the first gun rights movement...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and Colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar Patrick J. Charles shows, what the right to arms means to Americans, as well as what it legally protects, has changed drastically since its first appearance in the 1689 Declaration of Rights. Armed in America explores how and why the right to arms transformed...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Some interpret it as protecting personal privilege to own and carry firearms, others to bear arms in relation to militia service. Book concludes that it is meant only to protect the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms" for the purpose of defending the country in a militia force against foreign or domestic armies"--Provided by publisher.