This chapter explores Second Amendment issues, including the historical background of Sir John Knight and a debate about the statute of Northampton. It also delves into the challenges faced by NASA in recruiting astronauts and the pivotal gun rights case, the Bruin case, before the Supreme Court.
In the battles over gun rights, a shadowy English nobleman from the 17th century has unexpectedly taken center stage. Who was he? What did he do that has — 300 years later — endeared him to a generation of legal scholars? Revisionist History explores the cult of personality around the mysterious Sir John Knight.
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