Law and morality are inextricably linked. Those who make, enforce, or are subject to the law may wish to believe that legal principles rest on objective foundations, but the reality could not be further from the truth. Even our most basic and well-accepted legal prohibitions or legal rights are steeped
Beginning in the early 1990s, the Executive Branch began an era of enforcement of federal firearms crime that was different in kind and degree from the prior seventy-five years. The federal crime policies of the 1990s and 2000s led to a significant increase both in the total number of federal
