17 Pages Posted: 15 Aug 2011 Last revised: 10 Nov 2011

Date Written: August 14, 2011

Abstract

With the Second Amendment now a working part of the Bill Of Rights in the wake of the Supreme Court's decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, this brief Essay examines the likely extent of penumbral rights under the Second Amendment, as well as the possible effect on unenumerated rights of an enforceable right to arms.