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Justice Stephen Breyer on the Importance of Civics Education

We the People

CHAPTER

How Do We Decide Which Weapons Fall Within the Protection of the Second Amendment?

In the Bruin case from New York, you had a memorable line in your dissent. The point was how do we decide from the majority what weapons fall within the protection of the Second Amendment and which don't? "I got this rather weird idea that I'm going to go look up weapons that they had in the Middle Ages," he said.

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