* Preface *1. A People Armed *2. Bearing Arms through War and Revolution *3. The Dissidents Disarmed *4. The Gentleman's Game *5. Enforcement of Arms Restrictions *6. James II and Control of Firearms *7. Arms for Their Defence: The Making of a "True, Ancient, and Indubitable Right" *8. The Second Amendment and the English Legacy * Afterword * Abbreviations * Notes * Index
Joyce Lee Malcolm is Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law.
Joyce Malcolm's book reminds us forcibly that arguments for gun
ownership were, until quite recently, respectable and persuasive,
and that gun control and peaceable behaviour appear to be unrelated
phenomena.
*London Review of Books*
A groundbreaking book on the history of gun rights.
*National Review*
A work of genuine excellence, as persuasive in its argument as it
is unsettling in its implications...Malcolm's prose is both
vigorous and elegant, and occasionally even witty, a virtue rarely
to be found in a constitutional treatise. The book should generate
a healthy debate about the future of gun control in America.
*American Historical Review*
A wide audience, including social scientists, historians, lawyers,
and anyone interested in the gun-ownership debate, should welcome
this concise, well-written history.
*Contemporary Sociology*
[Malcolm] provides a skillful analysis of how the Englishmen's duty
to bear arms was transformed into a right to bear arms.
*Journal of American History*
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