May 14, 2021 at 12:21 PM Shares3 Ed. note: This article first appeared on The Juris Lab, a forum where “data analytics meets the law.” A month and a half ago, a panel on the Ninth Circuit ordered supplemental briefing in Jones v. Becerra — an important Second Amendment case concerning the constitutionality of a California statute which bans the sale of firearms to individuals under the age of 21 — requesting the parties address three questions: “What is the original public meaning of the Second Amendment phrases: ‘A well regulated Militia’; ‘the right of the people’; and ‘shall not be infringed’? How does the tool of corpus linguistics help inform the determination of the original public meaning of those Second Amendment phrases?