https://ylpr.yale.edu/inter_alia/in...cond-amendment-making-sense-historical-record
“Infants” and Arms Bearing in the Era of the Second Amendment: Making Sense of the Historical Record
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
"Individuals between the ages of eighteen and twenty (and indeed all those under the age of twenty-one) were considered “minors” or “infants” from the time of the nation’s Founding up through the latter half of the twentieth century.[7] Thus, the proper historical framing of the issue before the Fourth Circuit should have been: did the Second Amendment recognize a right of infants, meaning those under twenty-one, to keep and bear arms? The answer to that question is simple: no. Indeed, when framed in historically correct terms, the very idea of infants bearing arms suggests the constitutional absurdity of the claims advanced by the court in Hirschfeld.
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“Infants” and Arms Bearing in the Era of the Second Amendment: Making Sense of the Historical Record
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
"Individuals between the ages of eighteen and twenty (and indeed all those under the age of twenty-one) were considered “minors” or “infants” from the time of the nation’s Founding up through the latter half of the twentieth century.[7] Thus, the proper historical framing of the issue before the Fourth Circuit should have been: did the Second Amendment recognize a right of infants, meaning those under twenty-one, to keep and bear arms? The answer to that question is simple: no. Indeed, when framed in historically correct terms, the very idea of infants bearing arms suggests the constitutional absurdity of the claims advanced by the court in Hirschfeld.
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