The government's decision to settle a lawsuit with Defense Distributed doesn't change anything significant. It's not Trump's fault. And the underlying case was as much about free speech as it was about guns.
Critics say the "red flag" law is violating Floridians' constitutional rights.
The states allege that the Feds decision to settle its lawsuit with Defense Distributed violates administrative procedure law and the states' 10th Amendment rights.
The previously prohibited computer files related to making guns at home are now legally available in resolution of long-standing lawsuit involving Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed.
The 9th Circuit has endorsed a distinction that does not jibe very well with modern attitudes.
A former congressman suggests that homemade plastic guns can be banned because they did not exist in 1791.
This Arizona state Senate candidate says he killed his mother in self-defense more than 50 years ago. But does his story really add up?
What piece of legislation could have prevented yesterday's attack?
Just because you cannot comply doesn't mean the law cannot exist.
The retiring justice seems to have been a crucial obstacle to hearing Second Amendment cases.
Under Obama the ATF admitted that Congress denied it authority to ban bump-fire stocks on AR-15s, but now the ban seems imminent.
A decade after recognizing a constitutional right to armed self-defense, the Supreme Court remains reluctant to defend it.
Will widespread private arms rebalance power between individuals and the state? It looks like we're going to find out.
New York's governor favors "extreme risk protection orders" that could be obtained by a wide range of people based on little evidence.
Once again, lawmakers propose to use the regulatory state to punish people they don't like.
Let's argue about the president's policies instead of his "grammar & style."
The Supreme Court has been almost completely silent on the subject of gun rights, leaving important issues unresolved.
Probably nothing. Which doesn't mean libertarians shouldn't be having a serious conversation after Santa Fe, Parkland, and other tragedies.
None of the usual gun control proposals seems relevant to the massacre at Santa Fe High School.
Politicians, activists rehash calls for increased security, regulation of guns.
The city council's unanimous support for the new ban does not make up for its lack of logic and legality.
More Second Amendment setbacks in the Golden State when the Supreme Court declines to take a case about city zoning
How a scary name for an arbitrary group of firearms distorts the gun control debate
Golden State gun owners may soon be an endangered species, and no one is talking about why.
Self-defense rights need to be a cause in themselves, not just a totem of political tribal identity.
When it comes to the Second Amendment, the president is all talk.
The outrage at a Florida newspaper reveals a deep antipathy toward all forms of gun ownership.
Peashooter prohibitions are on the rise.
In a politicized environment, getting on the wrong side of regulators can be dangerous. Don't be surprised if banks and insurers cave.
Having failed to thwart crime with gun bans, British officials now want to restrict what may be the most useful tool ever invented.
Assault weapon ban proposals are more and more popular, but the facts about American gun violence show they'd have little positive effect.
On another National School Walkout day, 57 percent of teens are worried about dying in a school shooting. They shouldn't be.
The therapists would be mandatory in middle and high schools.
London's got a homicide problem, but leaders insist it's being caused by the tools.
A plain reading of the text suggests that Deerfield's new law covers all semi-automatic rifles that can hold more than 10 rounds.
London's murder numbers now exceed New York's. But the new murders teach old lessons: Drug wars are bad and weapon laws don't stop crime.
His obsession with Justice Scalia's aside in Heller about "weapons...most useful in military service" ignores Scalia writing of weapons "typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes."
Deerfield would fine residents up to $1,000 for owning one of a dizzying array of firearms.
A Florida case highlights the due process issues raised by gun violence restraining orders.
The gun control policies student activists favor are just as dubious as the school security measures they mock.
Get ready for ever-more-intrusive mental-health measures.
Looking for political or cultural calls to action in this act of violence is a fool's errand.
"My school is starting to feel like a prison."
Stinging insects kill more Americans than mass shooters do.
Youth opinion on firearms is far from monolithic.
Corporations are being asked to take sides in a gun control debate that has very little to do with them.
"There cannot be two sides," say the adolescent activists, tarring their opponents as NRA puppets.
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