Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle Over Guns

by Mark Tushnet and Mark V. Tushnet

Few constitutional disputes maintain as powerful a grip on the public mind as the battle over the Second Amendment. The National Rifle Association and gun-control groups struggle unceasingly over a piece of the political landscape that no candidate for the presidency--and few for Congress--can afford to ignore. But who's right? Will it ever be possible to settle the argument?

In Out of Range, one of the nation's leading legal scholars takes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195304241
• ISBN13: 9780195304244
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good primer

Not a bad addition, a fairly cool analysis to an overheated debate item. The author will probably not please many people, as he concludes that the constitution really does not say a whole lot about modern gun restrictions, taking swipes at both pro and anti gun arguments. This book is short and not particularly in-depth on references.

Required Reading

I actually got a chance to read the manuscript. Typical Tushnet. I.e., smart, incisive, scrupulously fair. If you want to cut through the overheated rhetoric you're going to hear in the next few months -- assuming the Court grants DC's cert petition in the gun control case -- you should read this book. Actually, you should read if you're at all interested in the gun control debate.