James B. Jacobs is Warren E. Burger Professor of Law at
NYU School of Law. He is the author of Can Gun Control Work? (Oxford University Press 2002)

Blog Entries by James Jacobs

The Biggest Triumph So Far for Gun Rights Advocates

Posted June 26, 2008 | 06:46 PM (EST)


Not so long ago, "liberal" U.S. opinion leaders felt firearms, at least handguns, could and should be banned in the United States. They did not regard the Second Amendment as a barrier to achieving this goal. In fact, they derided the Second Amendment as having nothing to do with an...

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