Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen?: Independent Institute

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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

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Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the Independent books Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, Gun Control in the Third Reich, and The Founders’ Second Amendment.

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