Republicans Get Behind Gun Control in Wake of Las Vegas Shooting
Get your bump stocks while you can.
Get your bump stocks while you can.
Reason's Jacob Sullum talks about making effective policy in the wake of tragedy.
Gun control advocates don't seem to realize they are making the case against their push.
If only politicians were so open to contradiction by reality.
The Las Vegas attack does not strengthen the case for all the usual gun control ideas.
The accessories, which are legal and widely available, sacrifice accuracy for speed.
Don't combine an authoritarian president with a disarmed populace.
Anti-gun activists are pushing for a crackdown in the wake of the Vegas shooting. That's understandable but wrong.
Laws aren't the solution you're looking for to crimes like the massacre in Las Vegas.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.
As usual, the policies pushed in response to a mass shooting have little or nothing to do with it.
Resist "grotesque urge to immediately transform all human tragedies into a political agenda."
New York City arrests people who travel with guns-even when they notify and follow all TSA rules and have a valid gun license from their home state.
Is gun control a political thicket that unelected judges should not enter?
"The Second Amendment erects some absolute barriers that no gun law may breach."
A newly passed bill in the state would let cops and judges decide who can exercise their Second Amendment rights.
This confiscation, even beyond Second Amendment concerns, amounts to an unconstitutional taking of personal property.
Ten states and D.C. say you must.
"I find it extremely improbable that the Framers understood the Second Amendment to protect little more than carrying a gun from the bedroom to the kitchen."
Most gun-related deaths among minors are homicides, and four-fifths involve teenagers.
Responsible gun ownership could prevent terrorism.
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If you have to ask permission, it's a privilege, not a right. And maybe you shouldn't bother to ask.
SCOTUS may soon decide whether or not to hear arguments in Peruta v. California.
Due process protections preserved for those getting Social Security benefits.
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson urges judicial minimalism in Second Amendment case.
The appeals court says the prohibited guns and magazines are outside the scope of the Second Amendment.
Bad reporting, and bad attitudes, make a sensible move to prevent the government from discriminating against certain Social Security recipients seem like sheer madness.
Judge Diane Sykes strikes down Chicago gun range restrictions.
The consolidated case overturned the application of U.S. Code 922(g)(1) in two cases where the convicted criminals' crimes were not serious enough to deny them Second Amendment rights, according to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
Whatever the numbers are, they supposedly support the case for universal background checks.
How to dodge responsibility, whether you're a candidate or a cop.
Even in states that have legalized marijuana, using it means sacrificing your right to armed self-defense.
Yesterday's terrifying non-shooting at Ohio State exemplifies how the media is anti-gun and anti-freedom.
Washington's new law authorizing court-ordered disarmament is even worse than California's.
Huff was expected to remain on the team after his arrest, but was cut after pointing out many athletes carry guns.
If you want people to make their own automatic weapons, just restrict legal access to firearms of all sorts.
Past and present history give no reason to believe there'd be any public safety benefit to such a ban.
While Trump does not know what the Constitution says, his opponent doesn't care.
The Democratic nominee says "there's an individual right to arms" but does not think it includes handgun ownership or self-defense in the home.