Second Amendment Legal Guides
5 guides covering Second Amendment topics, each with Caselaw search beside the article.
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- Bruen’s Text, History, and Tradition Framework for Second Amendment Challenges
New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen replaced means-end scrutiny with a text-and-history test for firearm regulations. This guide explains the framework and how later cases apply it.
- Heller and McDonald: The Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Incorporation
District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago remain the foundation of modern Second Amendment law: an individual right to keep and bear arms, applied to the States.
- Section 922(g)(3): Unlawful Drug Users, Firearm Bans, and the Second Amendment
Litigation over 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)’s unlawful-drug-user firearm prohibition—including United States v. Hemani (2026)—turns on Bruen’s history test as illuminated by Rahimi and Heller.
- Sensitive Places, Private Property Open to the Public, and Second Amendment Carry
Bruen’s sensitive-places discussion and later disputes such as Wolford v. Lopez (2026) frame where public carry may be restricted, including private property open to the public.
- United States v. Rahimi: Domestic Violence Restraining Orders and Firearm Possession
United States v. Rahimi upheld § 922(g)(8)’s prohibition on firearm possession by persons subject to qualifying domestic-violence restraining orders under Bruen’s historical tradition test.