Second Amendment Foundation

Tonso, William R., ed., and the Second Amendment Foundation. The Gun Culture and Its Enemies. Bellevue, Wash. Merril Press, 1990. Presents two collections of essays. The first part deals with the gun culture that has developed around the use of guns in many parts of the United States. The second part deals with persons and groups that are determined to destroy, or at least marginalize, gun culture. 

Kates, Don B. Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment. Bellevue, Wash. Second Amendment Foundation, 1984. Discusses whether the prohibition of handguns (as opposed to rifles and other weapons of a more military application) is compatible with the original understanding of the Second Amendment. 

Polsby, Daniel B. Treating the Second Amendment as Normal Constitutional Law. Kentucky Firearms Foundation. Available online. URL http //www.kyfirearms.org/news/polsby.htm. Posted on December 13, 1997. Explores how the Second Amendment would be applied if it were treated like other first class provisions of the Bill of Rights, such as the First Amendment. Polsby suggests that, like speech, the time, place and manner of bearing arms could be regulated, but the right itself would have to be respected. 

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