Over at its Second Thoughts Blog, the Duke Center for Firearms Law ran a series of guest posts “from leading historians weighing in on topics of firearms and gun regulation in early America.” The introduction is
here. The posts are
Weapons and the Peace, by
Laura F. Edwards;
In Search of Repeating Firearms in Eighteenth-Century America, by
Kevin M. Sweeney; and
Founding Fantasies vs. Historical Realities in the Second Amendment Debate, by
Saul Cornell.
--Dan Ernst
