Although the Second Amendment tends to dominate the discussion about legal limits on gun regulation, nothing has done more to shape the state of urban gun law than state preemption laws, which fully or partially limit cities’ ability to regulate guns at the local level. The goals of this short Essay are to shed light on this “Statutory Second Amendment” and to provide a basic framework for evaluating it.

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城市、优先权和法定第二修正案

尽管第二修正案倾向于主导关于枪支管制法律限制的讨论，但没有什么比国家优先权法更能塑造城市枪支法的状态，它完全或部分限制了城市在地方一级管制枪支的能力。这篇短文的目的是阐明这一“法定第二修正案”，并为评估它提供一个基本框架。