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Reconstruction Era Laws Regulating Firearms

The Supreme Court’s overturning of New York’s law regulating gun possession in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen would have attracted more…

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The Second Amendment & The Right to Kill Black People in Slavery and Reconstruction

Slate’s legal writer Dahlia Lithwick recently interviewed historian Carol Anderson, professor and chair of African American studies at Emory University, on her new book The…

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