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.
State officials “jawboned” financial firms into cutting ties with the gun-rights group.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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LaShawn Craig may spend years behind bars—because the gun he used to justifiably shoot someone was unlicensed.
By banning firearms from a long list of "sensitive places," the state is copying a policy that federal judges have repeatedly rejected.
Flagstaff keeps digging a hole over commercial free speech.
The 4th Circuit’s rejection of Maryland’s handgun licensing system suggests similar schemes in other states are unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court mulls how to apply a mandatory minimum for gun possession by people convicted of drug felonies.
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Before buying a handgun, residents had to obtain a "qualification license," which could take up to 30 days.
The Trump administration’s unilateral ban on bump stocks turned owners of those rifle accessories into felons.
Fifth Circuit judges slap the ATF for making up illegal rules against homemade guns.
Almost 10 years after his arrest, Marvin Guy will soon learn if he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.
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