Originalist Scholarship · Second Amendment
Peaceful noncompliance. Founding principles. Clear-eyed originalism.
Restoring the right to keep and bear arms — one principle at a time.
2026-09-20 · originalism
The Founders did not say a State may pick a manner of carry and extinguish the other. Concealment-as-such is not a 1791 category. When the early republic later regulated manner — starting in 1813 — it regulated secrecy and left open carry standing. Chandler and Nunn are that analogue, not a State menu.
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Blackstone’s offense was going armed to the terror of the people. Heller named a tradition of carrying. They turned it into a catalog of banned rifles. That’s not history. That’s a swap.
Read →2026-09-04 · originalism
The Solicitor General told the Court Cook County’s AR-15 ban falls. That sentence is true. Forty States are not the test.
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