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36 Hous. L. Rev. 1713 (1999)
New Courtroom Strategies Regarding Firearms: Tort Litigation against Firearm Manufacturers and Constitutional Challenges to Gun Laws

handle is hein.journals/hulr36 and id is 1725 raw text is: ARTICLE NEW COURTROOM STRATEGIES REGARDING FIREARMS: TORT LITIGATION AGAINST FIREARM MANUFACTURERS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES TO GUN LAWS Jon S. Vernick* and Stephen P. Teret Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 1714 II. FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES TO LAWS REGULATING FmEARMS ..................................................... 1717 A The Second Amendment ............................................ 1717 B. Beyond the Second Amendment ................................ 1719 1. Federalism and the Commerce Clause ............... 1720 Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research; Co-Director, JD/MPH Joint Degree Program at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Georgetown University Law Center, B-AL, Johns Hopkins University;, J.D., George Washington University;, M.P.I-L, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Co-Director, JD/MPH Joint Degree Program at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Georgetown University Law Center; B-A., St. Lawrence University;, J.D., Brooklyn Law School; M.P.H., Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. The authors wish to thank Amy Schofield, JD/MPH candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Georgetown University Law Center, for her research assistance, and Julie Dugan, J.D. Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, for her helpful comments. We also wish to acknowledge the Joyce Foundation, of Chicago, Illinois, for its generous support of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. 1713

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