Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Category: guns

  • “… far more onerous than the restrictions found in this Nation.”

    In McDonald v. Chicago, Justice Stevens stated in dissent that “the experience of other advanced democracies . . . undercuts the notion that an expansive right to keep and bear arms is intrinsic to ordered liberty. Many of these countries place restrictions on the possession, use, and carriage of firearms far more onerous than the…