TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Handgun Control, the Second Amendment, and Judicial Legislation in the D.C. Circuit: A Note on Parker v. District of Columbia
JO  - New criminal law review
A1  - Zimring, Franklin E.
SP  - 312
EP  - 322
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
N2  - This note examines the wholly novel constitutional calculus used by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2007 to strike down the District of Columbia's prohibition of civilian handgun possession. The central feature of the court's analysis of handguns was finding that modern handguns should be regarded as "lineal descendents" of militia era flintlocks, a finding that ignores the provable fact that the pistols of 1794 were not concealed or concealable weapons. Because concealability is the central danger of the modern handgun, this critical element in the opinion is an error both of historical analysis and constitutional reasoning.<p /> 
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SN  - 1933-4192
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2008.11.2.312
ID  - ref1
ER  -