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Reviews The Kaleidoscope of Science, ed. Edna Ullman Margalit (The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Volume I. 1986) and The Prism of Science, ed. Edna Ullman Margalit (The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Volume II. 1986). (JLN)

From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada. But in fact, firearm regulation has been a sharply contested issue in the country since Confederation. Arming and Disarming offers the first comprehensive history of gun control in Canada from the colonial period to the present.In this sweeping, immersive book, R. Blake Brown outlines efforts to regulate the use of guns by young people, punish the misuse of arms, impose licensing regimes, and create firearm registries. Brown also challenges many popular assumptions about Canadian history, suggesting that gun ownership was far from universal during much of the colonial period, and that many nineteenth century lawyers – including John A. Macdonald – believed in a limited right to bear arms.Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada's historical and contemporary 'gun culture.'

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I: Introductory -- II: Frankish Feudalism -- III: Pre-Conquest England -- 1. Absence of knights -- 2. Absence of vassalic commendation -- 3. Absence of the fief -- 4. Absence of native castles -- IV: Anglo-Norman feudalism a Norman innovation -- DOCUMENTS -- NOTE -- A Literary and narrative sources -- 1. Tacitus, Germania, cc. 13-14 -- 2. Annales Regni Francorum, ed. Kurze, pp. 14, 16 -- 3. Richer, Histoire de France, ed. Latouche, i, 104 -- 4. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C(D, E), s.a. 1016 -- 5. The same, D, s.a. 1051 -- 6. The same, E, s.a. 1051 -- 7. The same, E, s.a. 1052 -- 8. The same, C, s.a. 1055 -- 9. The same, D, s.a. 1066 -- 10. The same, E, s.a. 1066 -- 11. The same, D, s.a. 1066 [1067] -- 12. The same, D, s.a. 1074 -- 13. The same, E, s.a. 1086 -- 14. The same, E, s.a. 1087 -- 15. Florence of Worcester, ed. Thorpe, i, 205-6 -- 16. The same, i, 210 -- 17. The same, i, 213 -- 18. The Song of Maldon -- 19. Snorre Sturlason's account of the Battle of Stamford Bridge -- 20. Gilbert Crispin's Life of Herluin, ed. Armitage Robinson, pp. 87-91 -- 21. William of Jumièges, ed. Marx, pp. 115-16 -- 22. The same, p. 123 -- 23. The same, p. 134 -- 24. William of Poitiers, ed. Foreville, pp. 14-20 -- 25. The same, concerning Harold's oath -- 26. The same, p. 168 -- 27. The same: account of the battle of Hastings -- 28. The same, pp. 210-12 -- 29. The same, p. 216 -- 30. The same, p. 238 -- 31. Ordericus Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History, ed. Chibnall, ii, 218 -- 32. The same, pp. 260-6 -- 33. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum Anglorum, ed. Hamilton, p. 253 -- 34. The same, p. 281 -- 35. William of Malmesbury, The Life of Wulfstan, ed. Darlington, pp. 46-7.

Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada's historical and contemporary 'gun culture.'

Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada's historical and contemporary 'gun culture.'

AbstractThis article explains why and how some Canadians have asserted a right to possess firearms from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It demonstrates that several late-nineteenth-century politicians asserted a right to arms for self-defence purposes based on the English Bill of Rights. This "right" was forgotten until opponents of gun control dusted it off in the late twentieth century. Firearm owners began to assert such a right based upon the English Bill of Rights, William Blackstone, and the English common law. Their claims remained judicially untested until recent cases finally undermined such arguments.