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President Biden on Tuesday night said the “gun lobby” is responsible for US mass shootings and called for new gun control laws after a gunman murdered 18 children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas. “As a nation, we have to ask when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” Biden said in remarks from the White House just before 9 p.m. “It’s been 3,448 days — 10 years — since I stood up...

     The Second Amendment secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of States or a right restricted to persons serving in militias.MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERALTable of ContentsIntroduction   The Unsettled Legal Landscape Textual and Structural Analysis "The Right of the People" "To Keep and Bear Arms" "A Well Regulated Militia, being Necessary to the Security of a Free State" Structural Considerations: The Bill of Rights and the Militia Powers The Original Understanding of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms The Right Inherited from England The Right in America before the Framing The Development of the Second...