New Book - The Founders & Guns

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

by Saul Cornell (Oxford University Press)

Availability: The Oxford website lists it as an August 2006 book, but it is available now. (Barnes & Noble's release date seems to be incorrect too.)

See Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

From the Description:

"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 a collective right, but as a civic right--an obligation citizens owed to the state to arm themselves so that they could participate in a well regulated militia. "

Comments

[Al Brophy]

Thanks for flagging this. I'm a huge fan of Saul's work and have been eagerly awaiting his latest.

BTW, the OUP website lists Well-Regulated Militia as in stock.