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Right from the start.

Publication: National Review
Publication Date: 18-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Right from the start.(The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms)(Book review)

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The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, by Stephen P. Halbrook (Ivan R. Dee, 448 pp., $28.95)

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STEPHEN P. HALBROOK is a giant among Second Amendment scholars. During the 1980s, he and a tiny group of fellow iconoclasts challenged a well-settled consensus in academia and the courts. According to that consensus, the Second Amendment is an historical anachronism that gives individual American citizens no right at all to keep and bear arms. Although initially ignored by the legal establishment, the early work of Halbrook and his allies demonstrated that the elite consensus was built on nothing but hot air.

As the Supreme Court's recent decision in District of Columbia v. Heller vividly illustrates, the smug dismissal of the Second Amendment's importance and vitality is no longer tenable. For the first time in our history, the Supreme Court has found that a gun-control statute violated the Second Amendment, and it did so largely on the basis of the kind of original-meaning historical...

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