I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome

to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase

awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

On today's episode we consider the state of the Second Amendment.

The Supreme Court has not decided a major Second Amendment case since McDonald and Chicago in 2010, but this relative

silence on the Second Amendment could end this term if the court decides in

the coming weeks to hear a case called Madsen Whitaker, the challenge to a law prohibiting

dealers from selling handguns across state lines. Justice Anthony Kennedy has been replaced

by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and we have a dream team for you,

dear we to people, listeners, to unpack the state of the Second Amendment and where the court

has been and where it may be going.

Clark Neely is Vice President for Criminal Justice

at the Cato Institute and served as co-counsel

in the landmark 2008 Second Amendment case, DC versus Heller.

Clark is adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law

and was previously senior attorney at the Institute for Justice. Clark, thank you so

much for joining. My pleasure. Thanks so much for having me. And Adam Winkler is professor of law at UCLA law school, specializing in American constitutional law.

He is the author of gunfight, the Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.

He's the co-author of the Constitution Center's Second Amendment explainers on the

Interactive Constitution and the author of a new award-winning book,

We the Corporations.

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