Revisiting “Of Arms and the Militia: Gun Regulation by Legislatively Defining ‘Ordinary Military Equipment’”

Authors

• Edward J. Curtis ,Jr.

Abstract

In 2021, I published an article arguing that semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic handguns, among other weapons, could be most effectively regulated by defining the “ordinary military equipment” that the states’ militia members were expected to produce in the event they were called to service. I based my argument on the rationale employed by the United States Supreme Court in its 1939 decision in United States v. Miller, which upheld the National Firearms Act of 1934.

Recommended Citation

Curtis, Edward J. ,Jr. (2026) "Revisiting “Of Arms and the Militia: Gun Regulation by Legislatively Defining ‘Ordinary Military Equipment’”," Touro Law Review: Vol. 41: No. 1, Article 34.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol41/iss1/34