Don't Take Your Guns to School (in Nebraska): Assessing the Constitutionality of the Private Universities Exemption from the Concealed Handgun Permit Act
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Eden, Joe W.
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2014
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48
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1
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|From the time the United States Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment guarantees of liberty applied equally to both state and federal regulations in McDonald v. City of Chicago, courts around the country have attempted to decipher just which guarantees are protected by the amendment. Widely regarded as a guiding light on the subject, the recent Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller is often cited as an essential component to understanding the right to keep and bear arms. Courts have attempted to navigate the ambiguities of this decision in various ways and have often arrived at highly unharmonious conclusions. One area of potentially protected conduct that the Court in Heller alluded to, but did not extensively address, is the carrying of concealed handguns...
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Creighton University School of Law