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The Big Idea
We’re approaching the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Heller decision. It didn’t cause a revolution in gun laws.
By Joseph Blocher and Eric Ruben
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Join nowJoseph Blocher is a professor at Duke Law School. Eric Ruben is a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. They are the authors of “From Theory to Doctrine: An Empirical Analysis of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms after Heller,” which appeared in the Duke Law Journal.


We’re approaching the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Heller decision. It didn’t cause a revolution in gun laws.