A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America

Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong.



Cornell, a leading constitutional historian, shows that the Founders understood the right to bear arms as neither an individual nor...