10 Pages Posted: 11 Apr 2014 Last revised: 11 Jun 2014

Date Written: June 2014

Abstract

In recent years, the Second Amendment has gone from a subject of scholarly and political debate with no real judicial role, to a clearly established individual right that is being enforced in lower courts. This Essay, the foreword to a forthcoming Tennessee Law Review symposium on the Second Amendment, explores how that happened, and what is likely to come next.