Robert Churchill’s New Book on Guns, Insurrection, and Modern Militias.

Robert Churchill, the best young historian of gun rights, has his first book out, To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant’s Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement. (Back in 2001-2002, Churchill was one of the handful of Ph.D. historians who stuck his neck out to detail problems with Michael Bellesiles’s Arming America.)

Based on his Ph.D. thesis, Churchill’s book examnines in detail views on the right of revolution (or insurrection) in the 1790s and its relation to the Second Amendment. The last part of the book looks at insurrectionary strands in the modern militia movement.