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Don Resnikoff, Esq. and Anthony Picadio, Esq. take a look at the Second Amendment and its roots. Why did the drafters connect the right to bear arms to service in a militia; and how has the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the drafters' language.

Read Picadio’s articles: The Right to Bear Arms: A Disfavored Right, Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, 2019, can be found at https://transpartisanreview.org/bear-arms/. His more recent article, The Future of the Second Amendment Under an Originalist Supreme Court Majority, Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, 2021, is available in three parts at https://transpartisanreview.org/scalia-one/

Please note, the positions and opinions expressed by the speakers are strictly their own, and do not necessarily represent the views of their employers, nor those of the D.C. Bar, its Board of Governors or co-sponsoring Communities and organizations.