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Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. See profile: https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/leider_robert

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Pretextually Eliminating the Right to Bear Arms through Gerrymandered Property Rules

Posted by on December 23, 2022

This is a guest post that is part of a mini-symposium on “Private Property and the Second Amendment,” responding to Jake Charles’ earlier post Bruen, Private Property & the Second Amendment.  Stay tuned for additional response posts that will run on the blog in the coming weeks.   When the Supreme Court required public school desegregation […]

The Myth of the “Massachusetts Model”

Posted by on June 16, 2022

The title of Saul Cornell’s recent blog post—The Myth of Non-enforcement of Gun Laws in Nineteenth Century America—leaves the impression that I will argue that nineteenth-century gun restrictions went unenforced.  I will make no such argument.  In some places, laws regulating the carrying of weapons were enforced strictly.  In others, they were ignored.  Some authorities […]

Members of Congress Have Little Right to Bear Arms on Capitol Hill

Posted by on January 15, 2021

After last week’s riot at the Capitol, the acting House Sergeant-at-Arms implemented a new policy requiring House members to be screened for weapons before entering the House chamber.  On Tuesday, June 12, the U.S. Capitol Police declined to admit Rep. Lauren Boebert (R.-Colo.) to the floor of the House of Representatives after she refused to […]

The Supreme Court and the Current Public Carry Petitions: Open Splits and Concealed Vehicle Problems

Posted by on May 29, 2020

In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court recognized an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.  Although the decision settled whether persons have a right to keep arms when they are not enrolled in an organized militia, the decision raised many follow-up questions.  Is the Second Amendment limited to keeping arms […]