Must Read: Origins and Development of the Second Amendment

By Dean Weingarten

If you want to understand how the United States came to have the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, David Hardy’s book Origins and Development of the Second Amendment may be the best place to go. I’ve read numerous books and articles about the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Some have been short, others hundreds of pages. David T. Hardy’s slim book gets it done. This is surprising, because . . .

the book was originally published in 1986. That said, the second edition includes sections on the D.C. v Heller case on McDonald v. Chicago. The slender volume now has 111 pages, 16 more pages than the original 95.

[I was in Panama in 1986, when the Internet was just starting to form. I had an account on MILNET, one of the early precursors of the Internet, but it was limited to official email. So I missed Hardy’s book.]

The work is a masterpiece. It concisely explains the origin of the Second Amendment from a thousand years ago to present day (well, 1986). Joyce Lee Malcolm does as well in her works, but she covers the topic in considerably greater detail. Hardy …Read the Rest

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