If you want to understand how the United States came to have the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights, David Hardy's book Origins and Development of the Second Amendment may be the best place to go. I've read numerous books and articles about the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Some have been short, others hundreds of pages. David T. Hardy's slim book gets it done. This is surprising, because . . . the book was originally published in 1986. That said, the second edition includes sections on the D.C. v Heller case on McDonald v. Chicago. The...