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Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen?
May 1, 2010
By Stephen P. Halbrook
Also published in Santa Clara Law Review  « Show Fewer
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Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the Independent books The Right to Bear Arms, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, Gun Control in the Third Reich, The Founders’ Second Amendment and That Every Man Be Armed.
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