David Chipman's obfuscation, like the president's vagueness, is aimed at concealing the illogic of targeting firearms based on their "military-style" appearance.
State legislators across the country are working to weaken the enforcement of federal gun laws by emulating immigration activists.
A new lawsuit challenges Minnesota's law requiring a person be at least 21 years old to carry a handgun.
Such laws arbitrarily prohibit rifles that are commonly used for legal purposes.
Even when states authorize gun confiscation orders, identifying would-be mass shooters is a daunting challenge.
The policies don't accomplish much more than putting money in some gun owners' pockets.
Despite its victory, the State Department is insisting that a court order to allow the files to spread is not yet technically in effect.
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Two years after California banned them, the ATF was complaining that 41 percent of guns they came across in L.A. were the very guns already banned
States had been trying to stop the Feds from loosening their hold on certain software, but the Appeals Court says they don't have that power
Under current law, marijuana users who possess firearms are committing a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
New York, like several other states, limits public carrying of handguns to the favored few.
A new RAND analysis shows how difficult it is to answer basic questions about this rare variety of homicide.
Although police seized the perpetrator's shotgun when he was deemed suicidal, he was never identified as a potential murderer.
Both advocates and skeptics of the copycat theory recommend self-restraint by the news media.
A ban won’t stop mass shootings, but it will hinder self-defense.
Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement.
The president is picking fights with much of the population and further dividing the country.
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The president's unilateral restrictions are legally dubious and unlikely to "save lives."
A federal appeals court rejects a highly implausible redefinition of machine guns.
A long awaited decision in a challenge to the Trump Administration's "bump stock" ban tees up some interesting questions for the High Court's review.
The suggestion that the ordinance could have prevented Monday's mass shooting is utterly implausible.
This awful gun control talking point won’t go away.
According to the dissent, the appeals court "has decided that the Second Amendment does not mean what it says."
It is hard to see how an "assault weapon" ban or expanded background checks could have prevented this attack.
For possessing a gun while committing a crime—even when no one is killed—too many defendants are slammed with sentences decades or even centuries longer than justice demands.
As usual, the senator and her allies want to ban guns based on arbitrary distinctions.
One measure would require checks for nearly all firearm transfers, while the other would increase delays in completing sales.
The state's ban on "large-capacity magazines" is easy to justify, as long as you assume its benefits and ignore its costs.
The policies he favors would arbitrarily limit Second Amendment rights and threaten the industry that makes it possible to exercise them.
Sheila Jackson Lee's sweeping licensing and registration scheme suggests what Democrats would do if they didn't have to worry about the Second Amendment.
New gun owners are unlikely to embrace disarmament schemes from a government they distrust.
A challenge to the federal ban on gun possession by people convicted of felonies gives SCOTUS a chance to rectify its neglect of the Second Amendment.
The senators warned that the Court might have to be "restructured" if it did not reach the conclusion they preferred in a Second Amendment case.
Democrats and Republicans agree on that point, although they disagree about what it means in practice.
San Francisco writer Guy Smith finds little evidence that the availability of firearms explains differences in suicide and homicide rates.
"I believe that I'm channeling my ancestors," says Second Amendment activist Brent Holmes, who carries an assault rifle to protests in Richmond, Virginia.
The SCOTUS contender's 2019 dissent will alarm gun control supporters but reassure people who want judges to take this constitutional provision as seriously as others.
In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
The 5th Circuit judge is a mixed bag from a libertarian perspective.
Why do progressives who worry about unequal justice support policies that are bound to make that problem worse?
Millions of new firearm owners who have lost faith in cops and government will be a tough audience for shopworn gun control schemes.
The rhetoric may not be accurate, but it is definitely useful.
The Democratic presidential candidate favors the same magazine limit that a federal appeals court just declared unconstitutional.
For those who have been advising Americans for years that we should lay down our own weapons and trust armed government employees, this year has been a massive reality check.
This unilateral executive action has been scrutinized by both Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr.
