Supreme Court cases for guns

[Springfield_1911SS]

I am writting a paper, for my college Con. Law class. on the constitutionality (or lack of ) of gun control. Are there any good supreme court cases or cases you know of that I could use? I think my paper will have alot to do with States rights vs individuals rights. I am looking for cases on both sides of the gun debate.

I am thankful for any help.

 

[PaladinX13]

Fire up Lexis/West and search ALR (American Law Reports... or "Already-done Legal Research") and inevitably someone's already done a paper on it filled with citations to relevant cases in the footnotes.

 

[Tommygunn]

SUPREME COURT CASES: TWO CENTURIES OF GUN RIGHTS REVEALED. by David B. Kopel, Stephen P Halbrook, Ph.D., and Alan Korwin.
Published byBloomfield Press. Phoenix, Arizona. Try www.gunlaws.com to order a copy.

 

[mikeb3185]

try this

http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndsup.html

 

[Henry Bowman]

As stated above:

Supreme Court Gun Cases by Kopel, Halbrook and Korwin
Paperback. 659 pages. $24.95
A superior reference, very quotable, an affordable one-volume debate winner. Fourty four cases included unedited, 92 cases in all. More than 1,000 highlighted quotations. Plain English descriptions for every case. The decisions of the Supreme Court are beautifully thought out works of logic and reason (usually). In exquisite detail, the highest court of the land has interpreted our rights under the Second Amendment—and while some people have taken lately to belittling those freedoms, the High Court has recognized an individual right to arms in America for more than two centuries.

 

[AntiqueCollector]

There have not been a lot of cases dealing directly with the second amendment and gun control, but there are references to it in many other cases which you will want to find and use (such as Dred Scott, in which the rights of individual citizens denied to slaves were listed including a right to keep and bear arms).

 

[Megistopoda]

Well, you've become interested in this issue at an active time. Aside from the excellent suggestions above, might I suggest that you actually get into the petitions, responses, amici, and rulings of the DC v. Heller case, and those of the courts below?

You can find PDFs of all those things here:

http://dcguncase.com/blog/case-filings/

To start, I particularly recommend:

The DC District Court's opinion in Parker
http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/documents/parkerdc030907.pdf

Heller's Response to Petition for Supreme Court cert
http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/documents/petition_response.pdf

DC's Petition for Supreme Court cert
http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/documents/heller_cert_petition.pdf

Pay close attention to the references and authorities cited within those court documents. Reading these papers is like watching history unfold in front of your eyes. Don't miss the opportunity.