Guns

Jost, Kenneth. "Gun Rights Debate." CQ Researcher 31 Oct. 2008.
The Supreme Court gave gun rights advocates a major victory on June 26, recognizing for the first time an individual right under the Second Amendment to own and possess firearms. The 5-4 decision struck down a handgun ban adopted by the District of Columbia in 1976. Gun rights advocates the very same day began challenging similar bans in Chicago and elsewhere. In his majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia said the decision did not invalidate laws establishing qualifications to buy weapons, limiting the carrying of weapons in "sensitive" places or barring possession by felons or the mentally ill. Dissenting justices argued the ruling misinterpreted the history of the Second Amendment and would lead the court into striking down many gun laws. Gun control groups hope the ruling sets the stage for more reasoned debate over gun regulations by removing the specter of confiscation of weapons. But gun owners plan to use the ruling to challenge licensing schemes and to urge state legislators to ease restrictions on carrying weapons in public.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.


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CQ Researcher:

Jost, Kenneth. "Gun Violence." CQ Researcher 17.20 (2007): 457-480.

Adams, Bob. "Gun Control Debate." CQ Researcher 14.40 (2004): 949-972.

Books
Spitzer, Robert J. The Right to Bear Arms. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Carter, Gregg Lee. Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002.


Jacobs, James B. Can Gun Control Work?. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Ludwig, Jens and Cook, Philip J. Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

Squires, Peter. Gun Culture or Gun Control: Firearms, Violence and Society. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Reference articles from Gale Virtual Reference (includes the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, and West's Encyclopedia of American Law). One particularly interesting article is an outline of gun laws in various States found in the National Survey of State Laws [Ed. Richard Leiter. 6th ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008].

Other books from our collection.