Second Amendment Roundup: ATF redefines "engaged in the business"
Agency pushes the envelope to require gun dealer licenses beyond the statute.
Agency pushes the envelope to require gun dealer licenses beyond the statute.
The amended bill applies only to schools, polling places, and certain government buildings.
Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.
Tucson and Pima County have a history of passing restrictions that conflict with state law.
Some supposed defenders of the right to bear arms react with alarm.
Hours before the president said "no one should be jailed" for marijuana use, his Justice Department was saying no one who uses marijuana should be allowed to own guns.
State officials “jawboned” financial firms into cutting ties with the gun-rights group.
Citizens should be able to choose the same high-quality defensive arms that peace officers choose
James Crumbley, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, may be an unsympathetic defendant. But this prosecution still made little sense.
So concludes the Nebraska AG's office, partly based on Nebraska state law and partly based on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Rather than destruction of property, Wendell Goney was convicted of possession of a firearm as a felon.
A federal judge ruled that three men who committed nonviolent felonies decades ago are entitled to buy, own, and possess guns.
Several justices seemed troubled by an ATF rule that purports to ban bump stocks by reinterpreting the federal definition of machine guns.
In Cargill v. Garland, the Court should apply the National Firearms Act text that Congress did enact, and not the text that gun control advocates wish had been enacted.
The supposedly reformed drug warrior's intransigence on the issue complicates his appeal to young voters, who overwhelmingly favor legalization.
Plus: Suozzimentum, gun factories, body-count discourse, and more...
Rejecting a challenge to the state's strict gun laws, the court is openly contemptuous of Second Amendment precedents.
The decision likens the federal law to Reconstruction era restrictions on firearms near polling places.
In some sense, the case seemed to hinge on what prosecutors wished the law said, not on what it actually says.
Michigan jurors are considering whether Crumbley's carelessness amounted to involuntary manslaughter.
A watchdog group cites ATF "whistleblowers" who describe a proposed policy that would be plainly inconsistent with federal law.
The book Vote Gun criticizes the NRA’s rhetoric but pays little attention to gun control advocates' views.
People who were disenfranchised based on felony convictions face a new obstacle to recovering their voting rights.
New Mexico law is more pro-defendant in such cases than the laws of many other states.
Survey finds growing acceptance of civilian firearms among the country’s population.
California made carry permits easier to obtain but nearly impossible to use.
The Washington Post hectors Congress to make U.S. life expectancy a "political priority."
The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.
After a federal judge deemed the state's location-specific gun bans unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit stayed his injunction.
Bans on standard magazines benefit criminals and endanger victims
The ACLU will represent the gun rights group in a case with widespread relevance for free speech.
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The president's son is seeking dismissal of three felony charges based on his illegal 2018 firearm purchase.
The court upheld several other location-specific gun bans, along with the state's "good moral character" requirement for a carry permit.
Prosecutors have enormous power to coerce guilty pleas, which are the basis for nearly all convictions.
Law enforcement amicus brief against Colorado magazine ban.
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