re: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

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A lot of this is addressed in the article.

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Not in much detail. He writes, "We don’t really know what he meant by it," meaning the language of the Amendment, ignoring a lot of writing at the time from Madison and his contemporaries that would give us clues. But, those clues would negate the point of his article, so they were mysteriously left out.

His opening quote of Warren Burger is a popular anti-gun reference, but it, again mysteriously, ignores a lot of critical deconstruction of that quote and its context.

I get that he's not writing a novel on the subject, but his premise seems pretty flawed to me. Its reads as if he'd have been better served by talking about the evolution of the NRA than trying to assert that it "rewrote the Second Amendment." If he really intended to explain how lobbies can shape law, he picked a bad example IMO. But, I suspect, he picked the example not simply to write about how lobbies shape law.