At SSRN. It deals with NYSRPA v. Bruen, and in particular with the questions of (1) how many of those medieval restrictions on bearing arms even applied to the American colonies and (2) could 18th century Americans even have known of them?
The Court has often spoken of how we adopted the common law, but the fact is that (1) the colonies made their own laws, by judges or by legislatures, and adopted whatever they thought was suitable — which the English restrictions on bearing arms were not — and (2) all our sources on English law were only compiled much later, in 1810-1900. The colonists had to depend on commentator such as Blackstone to tell them what English law was, nobody had compiled the Statutes of the Realm or English Reports yet. The debate over the Statute of Northampton or the proclamations of Edward II has no relevance to what Americans of 1791 thought their right to arms was.