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‘Dangerous or Unusual’

Mike McIntire and Eli Murray, reporting for The New York Times (gift link) For nearly two decades, judges across the country have invoked this language to strike down gun-control laws.

  • "Dangerous and unusual" phrase invalidates gun-control laws
  • Scalia misquoted Blackstone, not "dangerous and unusual"
  • Heller decision overturned centuries of Second Amendment interpretations

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