The amended gun-free school zones act: Doubt as to its constitutionality remains

Duke Law Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 637-

  Safra, Seth J ^a  

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EID: 0346053786     PISSN: 00127086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1373099     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State Univ., 169 F.3d 820, 889 (4th Cir. 1999) (reflecting on the political consequences of invalidating a provision in the Violence Against Women Act), aff'd sub nom. United States v. Morrison, 120 S. Ct. 1740 (2000).
2. 514 U.S. 549 (1995).
3. Id. at 552.
4. Id. at 551 (quoting 18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(1)(A) (1988 & Supp. V)).
5. The majority opinion emphasized that possession of firearms is not an economic activity. See id. at 560-61. Justice Kennedy's concurring opinion, in which Justice O'Connor joined, asserted that GFSZA was problematic because it intruded into areas traditionally left to the states. See id. at 580-83 (Kennedy, J., concurring) ("[I]t is well established that education is a traditional concern of the States."). Of course, if the statute's constitutionality is contingent on