Biden's False Gun Claims Are a Lousy Basis for Law
Already abused for political purposes, the power of government shouldn’t be expanded based on lies.
Already abused for political purposes, the power of government shouldn’t be expanded based on lies.
The 22-year-old man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer during the execution of a no-knock warrant on which he was not named.
Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing.
Politicians deputize the private sector to restrict rights protected from the government.
If you want to own a machine gun, it's probably not going to happen anytime soon—even if you make a decent living and have never committed a crime.
After more than a decade of subversion, the Supreme Court has a chance to rectify this situation.
Judge Lawrence VanDyke included a satirical opinion that his colleagues can use when they decide otherwise.
After sweeping last November's elections, Virginia Republicans look to roll back Democratic gun laws.
The ATF is expected to adopt a new rule requiring that the metal parts hobbyists used to manufacture their DIY weapons be registered as legal firearms. So Cody Wilson made those parts unnecessary.
It's easy for many people to see the harm that guns are involved in every day in America, but much harder for them to see the harm that gun prohibition causes.
It's bad public policy to leap to the conclusion that we do.
That's the issue raised by a newly filed federal lawsuit.
Gavin Newsom is exploring legislation to authorize private civil actions against people who sell "assault weapons" or gun kits.
It's time to spread cheer. Reason is here to help.
There's no general federal right to them; they are often available when a law is enforced by government officials, but generally not as to laws in which private citizens sue (whether over abortion, speech, religious exercise, gun ownership or sales, or anything else).
The organization's embrace of a wide-ranging progressive agenda undermines its reason for existing.
The district court decision upholding the ATF's conclusion that bump stocks constitute unlawful "machine guns" is upheld by an equally divided court.
Despite such magazines being widely and lawfully used, and with the ban having been tossed out by other courts and court panels, the 9th Circuit thinks the ban does not violate the Second Amendment
Eric Adams thinks he can give the police more power to hunt for guns without making innocent minority men the inevitable target.
The jury rightly concluded that the prosecution failed to prove its case.
Some are using Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal to argue for harsher laws and punishments. Andrew Coffee IV's case is a study in why that's an awful idea.
Restrictions have little chance of moving beyond political theater, or of winning compliance if passed.
The trial became an upside-down microcosm for the polarized debates about the U.S. criminal justice system.
This stop was a Fourth Amendment violation, holds a federal court.
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Defendant had posted three photos to Instagram showing (1) a movie ticket, (2) ammunition, and (3) the inside of a theater, and also one to Snapchat showing (4) a handgun.
Fanta Bility's death has revived an under-the-radar debate about the doctrine of transferred intent.
The court takes a narrow view of 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1), but rejects liability as a matter of state law: “public policy [with regard to how gun sales can be arranged] is more properly determined by the peoples’ elected representatives rather than by the courts.”
Despite a tragic on-set death, there is no need to involve police officers in still more aspects of people's lives.
Judge Bruce Schroeder rightly reprimanded Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger for what he called a "grave constitutional violation."
The Supreme Court should reject a law that bars ordinary people from carrying guns for self-defense.
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A majority of the Court voiced skepticism about the state’s conceal-carry licensing scheme.
An amicus brief in Whole Women's Health v. Jackson warns of how S.B. 8's structure could be used to target other constitutional rights.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
Several groups urging the Supreme Court to overturn New York’s virtual ban on bearing arms emphasize the policy’s racist roots and racially disproportionate impact.
The Texas law “could just as easily be used by other States to restrict First or Second Amendment rights,” the Firearms Policy Coalition tells SCOTUS.
The gun rights group has filed a brief supporting the petition for certiorari in one of the cases challenging the controversial Texas abortion law.
The Second Amendment right is vibrant and prominent for many citizens. The Seventh Amendment right has shriveled to a husk of its former self.
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