The right to bear arms : rights and liberties under the law / Robert J. Spitzer.

What the Second Amendment says -- Outline of the book -- The British heritage -- The colonial experience -- The Constitution -- The Federalist-Antifederalist debate -- The Bill of Rights -- The decline of the old militia system -- Supreme Court rulings -- Other court rulings -- The textbook view -- Twentieth-century issues -- Alternate views -- The "right of revolution" -- Spreading arguments in the media -- Seeking shelter under the Fourteenth Amendment -- The SecondAmendment and politics -- Rights talk -- The Brady Law, the assault weapons ban, and beyond -- The new militia movement -- Recent court actions -- Escalating Second Amendment rhetoric -- Key people, cases, and events -- The Calling Forth Act of 1792 -- The Uniform Militia Act of 1792 -- United States volume Cruikshank (1876) -- Presser volume Illinois (1886) -- United States volume Miller (1939) -- Quilici volume Village of Morton Grove (1982) -- State right-to-bear-arms provisions -- Majorparty platform on gun control.