There used to be an almost complete scholarly and judicial consensus that the Second Amendment protects only a collective right of the states to maintain militias. That consensus no longer exists — thanks largely to the work over the last 20 years of several leading liberal law professors, who have come to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns…. Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, said he had come to believe that the Second Amendment protected an individual right. (New York Times ^[1], Monday)

Has the tide turned?

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The Second Amendment in the Light of American Republicanism ^[2] by Joseph R. Stromberg