Originalist Scholarship · Second Amendment
Peaceful noncompliance. Founding principles. Clear-eyed originalism.
Restoring the right to keep and bear arms — one principle at a time.
2026-11-03 · originalism
In 1793 Britain asked the United States to stop Americans from selling arms. Jefferson said no. Our citizens had always been free to make, vend, and export them. A federal license to do the same thing today is a barefaced usurpation.
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After Rahimi, prosecutors wave the surety laws around like a confiscation warrant. Read the American statutes. A complaint. A hearing. A bond. Not one of them took the gun.
Read →2026-09-24 · originalism
He said the Second Amendment limited the people and the weapons they could own. The text limits the government. A letter of marque took private cannon as given.
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