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Sounds,15 Dec 2023,43 mins

Guns Part 2: Getting out of Dodge

Revisionist History

Available for 334 days

The longest running television series of the 20th century was Gunsmoke, a western set in the notorious Dodge City, Kansas. Malcolm sweeps away mountains of legal scholarship to make a bold claim: The simplest explanation for the Supreme’s Court’s puzzling run of gun rights decisions may be that the justices watched too much Gunsmoke when they were growing up.

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