"Dangerous and Unusual Misdirection: A Look at the Common Law Tradition of Prohibiting Going Armed with Dangerous and Unusual Weapons to the Terror of the People, as Cited in District of Columbia versus Heller"
DANIEL RICHARD PAGE, affiliation not provided to SSRN Email: [email protected] In dicta, the Supreme Court in Heller cited the historical ban on, “Dangerous and Unusual Weapons,” to support a common use test on statutes that ban certain types of weapons considered to be, “dangerous and unusual." This paper examines the historical use and definition of the phrase, “Dangerous and Unusual Weapons,” and concludes that it refers not to a class of weapons, but to a class of behavior. Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [email protected]
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