Law and Contemporary Problems

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Foreword

John Kaplan and Jackson Eli Reynolds

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Exceptions to a General Prohibition on Handgun Possession: Do They Swallow up the Rule?

James B. Jacobs

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Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research

Gary Kleck

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Husband-Wife Homicide: An Essay From a Family Law Perspective

Margaret Howard

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Reflections on Violence, Guns, and the Defensive Use of Lethal Force

Daniel D. Polsby

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Close Encounters of the Lethal Kind: The Use of Deadly Force in Self-Defense

Lance K. Stell

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The Armed Citizen in the Early Republic

Robert E. Shalhope

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The Second Amendment: A Dialogue

Don B. Kates Jr.

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What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to “Bear Arms”

Stephen P. Halbrook

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Strict Construction of Firearms Offenses: The Supreme Court and the Gun Control Act of 1968

Robert Batey

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The Use and Abuse of Sentence Enhancement for Firearms Offenses in California

Alan Lizotte and Marjorie S. Zatz

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The Public Use Test: Would a Ban on the Possession of Firearms Require Just Compensation

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Gun Control: A Selective Bibliography

John J. Hasko

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Journal Staff