@article{ref1,
title="Firearm "rights" in Canada: law and history in the debates over gun control",
journal="Canadian journal of law and society",
year="2017",
author="Brown, R. Blake",
volume="32",
number="1",
pages="97-116",
abstract="This article explains why and how some Canadians have asserted a right to possess firearms from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It demonstrates that several late-nineteenth-century politicians asserted a right to arms for self-defence purposes based on the English Bill of Rights. This &quot;right&quot; was forgotten until opponents of gun control dusted it off in the late twentieth century. Firearm owners began to assert such a right based upon the English Bill of Rights, William Blackstone, and the English common law. Their claims remained judicially untested until recent cases finally undermined such arguments.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0829-3201",
doi="10.1017/cls.2017.5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cls.2017.5"
}