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| Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition | |
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| Preface to the Original Edition | |
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| Introduction: Firearms Prohibition and Constitutional Rights | |
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| The Elementary Books of Public Right | |
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| The Citizen as Arms Bearer in Greek Polity: Plato and Aristotle | |
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| From Republic to Empire in Rome: Cicero Versus Caesar | |
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| Machiavellian Interlude: Freedom and the Popular Militia | |
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| Absolutism Versus Republicanism in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Arms, Militia, and Penal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Thought | |
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| The Common Law of England | |
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| The Tradition of the Armed Freeman | |
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| Gun Control Laws of the Absolute Monarchs | |
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| That Subjects May Have Arms for Their Defense: The Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights | |
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| The Common-Law Liberty to Have Arms: From Coke to Blackstone | |
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| The American Revolution and the Second Amendment | |
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| Poore, Endebted, Discontented, and Armed: Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 | |
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| The American Revolution: Armed Citizens Against a Standing Army | |
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| The Controversy over Ratification of the Constitution | |
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| The Federalist Promise: To Trust the People with Arms | |
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| To Keep and Bear Their Private Arms: The Adoption of the Bill of Rights | |
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| Antebellum Interpretations | |
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| Judicial Commentaries: The Armed Citizen as the Palladium of Liberty | |
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| Carrying Weapons Concealed: The Only Right Questioned in Early State Cases | |
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| The Disarmed Slave and the Dred Scott Dilemma | |
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| That "the People" Means All Humans: Abolitionist Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| Freedmen, Firearms, and the Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| That No State Shall Disarm a Freedman: The Proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| The Public Understanding and State Ratifications of the Fourteenth Amendment | |
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| The Impact of the Fourteenth Amendment upon State Constitutions | |
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| That No Militia Shall Disarm a Freedman: The Abolition of the Southern Militia Organizations, 1866-1869 l50 | |
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| Against Deprivation Under Color of State Law of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: The Civil Rights Acts of 1871 and 1875 | |
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| The Supreme Court Speaks | |
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| Post-Reconstruction Decisions | |
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| The Right to Keep and Bear Militia Arms: United States v. Miller (1939) | |
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| The Logic of Incorporation and the Fundamental Character of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms | |
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| State and Federal Judicial Decisions | |
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| The Pistol as a Protected Arm | |
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| State Court Decisions Since World War II | |
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| To Disarm Felons or to Disarm Citizens? Federal Court Decisions from 1940 | |
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| Afterword: Public Policy and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms | |
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| Update to New Edition | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |