The current debate over the regulation of guns is, as these debates invariably are, robust.

One recalls comparable intensity when the last 10-year ban on assault rifles was enacted in 1994. But one major institutional change has occurred since this last debate: federal courts are now the final word on gun regulations. Virtually all the major policy decisions about guns have passed from democratic majorities to federal judges. The regulatory world is a very different place.

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