In an upcoming Supreme Court case, the Cato Institute argues that the "threadbare procedures" required by federal law provide inadequate protection for constitutional rights.
The law makes it a felony to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, which covers the sidewalk in front of Gabriel Metcalf's house.
Criticism of the state’s "yellow flag" statute is doubly misguided.
Only one federal firearms prohibitor does not require any specific finding of fact
The appeals court is reviewing an injunction by a judge who concluded that the law is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's Second Amendment precedents.
It's unlikely to stop would-be shooters, but it certainly would allow more innocent people to be locked up with little recourse.
“An emergency operation, in order to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves.”
Amicus brief in Supreme Court's Second Amendment Rahimi case
The decision is another rebuke to states that have imposed broad, location-specific limits on the right to bear arms.
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The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom.
Before correcting the record, the former president's spokesman inadvertently implicated him in a federal crime.
"There is no American tradition of limiting ammunition capacity," U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez says, calling the state's cap "arbitrary," "capricious," and "extreme."
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The governor's attempt to rule by decree provoked widespread condemnation instead of the applause she was expecting.
The collapse of his plea deal set up a clash with his father, who doggedly defends the firearm regulations his son violated.
No response to authoritarian government actions is quicker or more reliable than non-compliance.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham thinks violent crime gives her a license to rule by decree.
Local police officials are leery of enforcing Michelle Lujan Grisham's ban on public carry, which gun rights groups have challenged in federal court.
Covering the many developments in 2022-23.
The Colorado governor finds common ground with many libertarians. But does he really stand for more freedom?
Americans support tighter laws, but not as much as they distrust government and like owning guns.
Special Counsel David Weiss will face a Second Amendment challenge if he prosecutes the president's son for illegally buying a firearm.
Violators are rarely caught, while the unlucky few who face prosecution can go to prison for years.
The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms.
The plaintiffs in VanDerStok think that BATF's 2022 regulations defining certain gun-making kits as legally the same as guns overreached its constitutional authority.
Promoting impunity for violating rights as a policy tool? What could go wrong?
The nature of their conduct is a better indicator of the punishment they deserve.
A federal judge objected to two aspects of the agreement that seemed designed to shield Biden from the possibility that his father will lose reelection next year.
A judge's questions about his plea deal should not obscure the point that the law he broke is unjust and arguably unconstitutional.
A federal judge says the ATF can’t arbitrarily classify inert objects as gun parts.
Researchers report that many gun owners, especially newer ones, falsely deny owning guns.
Now both a violent and nonviolent felon have been found by lower courts to have a Second Amendment right to own weapons. The Supreme Court will likely consider the issue in the near future.
The government appears to agree that Charles Foehner shot a man in self-defense. He may spend decades behind bars anyway.
The man behind 3D-printed guns talks about beating the ATF, his abiding interest in cyberpunk culture, and what comes next for "practical anarchy."
California’s governor insists his “28th Amendment” would leave the right to arms “intact.”
The decision highlights the injustice of a federal law that bans gun possession by broad categories of "prohibited persons."
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As pot prohibition collapses across the country, that policy is increasingly untenable.
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The state defied a Supreme Court ruling by banning guns from myriad "sensitive places."
The former president reminds us that claiming unbridled executive power is a bipartisan tendency.
U.S. District Judge Robert Payne concluded that 18-to-20-year-olds have the same Second Amendment rights as older adults.
Mass shooters typically do not have disqualifying records, and restrictions on private gun sales are widely flouted.
A preliminary injunction in Illinois may signal the demise of a long-running public policy fraud.
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