@article{ref1,
title="Why protect private arms possession? Nine theories of the Second Amendment",
journal="Notre Dame law review",
year="2008",
author="Green, Michael Steven",
volume="84",
number="1",
pages="131-189",
abstract="The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reads: &quot;A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.&quot; Until recently, federal courts adopted a &quot;collective-right&quot; interpretation of the Amendment. According to this interpretation, the Second Amendment's scope is limited by its prefatory clause: the people have a right to bear arms only insofar as it contributes to a &quot;well regulated Militia.&quot; Furthermore, the term &quot;Militia&quot; refers to organized state militias, whose only modern equivalent is the National Guard.Under the collective-right interpretation, the Second Amendment protects the interests of state governments, not individuals. For this reason, only regulations of firearms that impair states' abilities to arm their militias can be unconstitutional. No challenged regulation has ever come close to this threshold.<p />",
language="",
issn="0745-3515",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}