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In reply to the discussion: I no longer give two f*cks about your 2nd Amendment rights. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)hint, the earliest cases started in the 1840s, there are two major cases after the civil war, Then there are a couple more in the early part of the 20h century... one you might even be familiar with since most gun fans tend to be... then there is at least one more before heller in the second part of the 20th century.
Then there is the whole slew of lower cases involving gun control at the state level, most of them confined to the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries. That area of law is starting to pick up steam again, but very slowly.
There are anywhere between 10 and 20 that are kind of major, depending on who you read, that mention the 2nd amendment. Though it did not play a direct role.
As I said, I recommend a legal library and a few law books. And I am not the one to teach you or take you by the hand. Suffice it to say, Heller actually broke some major ground (as Scalia would like to put it), or broke precedent... depending who you read.