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GunfightAdam Winkler

Gunfight

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"Author Adam Winkler, a professor of Constitutional law, uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's Capitol, as a springboard for a historical narrative of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. From the Founding Fathers and the Second Amendment to the origins of the Ku Klux Klan, ironically as a gun control organization, the debate over guns has always generated controversy. Whether examining the Black Panthers' role in provoking the modern gun rights movement or…

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3 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2011
    Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America
    W.W. Norton & Co. · 361 pages · 9780393077414
  • Other · English · 2013
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 384 pages · 9780393345834
  • Other · English · 2011
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 361 pages · 9780393082296
Gun controlLaw and legislationUnited StatesFirearmsHistoryConstitutional amendments, united statesFirearms, law and legislationUnited states, constitution