Gun Buybacks Don't Seem To Significantly Lower Gun Crimes or Gun Deaths
The policies don't accomplish much more than putting money in some gun owners' pockets.
The policies don't accomplish much more than putting money in some gun owners' pockets.
Regulations might reshape DIY gun products, but they can’t eliminate the demand that created the industry.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments next term in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett.
"There's this growing gap between what's on paper and what is enforceable in law," says Kareem Shaya, the co-founder of Open Source Defense.
If you support the duty to retreat (before using deadly force), what do you think of the duty to "comply[] with a demand ... [to] abstain from performing an act"?
If small arms can’t defeat a modern military, why are the people of Myanmar so determined to fight for freedom?
But what exactly do these terms mean?
From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
A ban won’t stop mass shootings, but it will hinder self-defense.
The president is picking fights with much of the population and further dividing the country.
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“It is not the role of the executive—particularly the unelected administrative state—to dictate” the terms of criminal law, said the 6th Circuit.
This awful gun control talking point won’t go away.
Thirteen years after Heller, it's time for the Supreme Court to settle whether the Second Amendment applies outside the home.
Samuel Cummings built a global weapons empire in Washington, D.C.'s shadow.
The DIY firearms movement specifically evolved to put personal armaments beyond the reach of the government.
Tech companies should have the same freedom to choose their customers.
New gun owners are unlikely to embrace disarmament schemes from a government they distrust.
The same logic could apply when churches, synagogues, mosques, bookstores, gun stores, fur stores, and similar places are targeted by their enemies. We've filed an amicus brief before the Georgia Court of Appeals, in support of getting the verdict reversed.
"We certainly would not fault a trial judge's desire to ensure public safety. But judicial concern, understandable as it may be, does not confer judicial power."
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
Is this the Supreme Court’s next big gun rights case?
With talk of QUEER, 69, AF, OG, "guns, weaponry, shooting, or an instrument normally used to inflict harm," and more.
California is one of nine states that leaves law enforcement with broad discretion to decide whether to grant a license.
"The state may restrict a convicted felon's right ... to possess a firearm," so a state may order a civil case defendant to stop saying things online about plaintiff that "severe[ly] emotional distress" that plaintiff.
San Francisco writer Guy Smith finds little evidence that the availability of firearms explains differences in suicide and homicide rates.
"Barrett says she owns a gun, but could fairly judge a case on gun rights" -- why the "but"?
"I believe that I'm channeling my ancestors," says Second Amendment activist Brent Holmes, who carries an assault rifle to protests in Richmond, Virginia.
In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
Millions of new firearm owners who have lost faith in cops and government will be a tough audience for shopworn gun control schemes.
The lawsuit accuses the group's leaders of fraudulently diverted millions of dollars to prop up their luxury lifestyles.
Could such "gun violence restraining orders" likewise be used against people who talk about violence and a "pig problem" or "fascist problem" as opposed to "n■■■, k■■■, and h■■■ problem" (expurgation in news video)?
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