The Second Amendment Doesn't Protect Cell Phones
Surprising, but true!
You generally can't claim self-defense if you're a robber "defending" yourself against your victim's own self-defense—but do you also lose your self-defense rights if your only crime is illegally carrying a handgun?
A Second Amendment hypocrite with a plan to undermine federalism
"The fundamental protections set forth in our Constitution," Thomas writes, should be "applied equally to all citizens."
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.
The state boasts of blocking 754 illegal purchases, but it wrongly tagged 101,047 law-abiding people as prohibited. Any of them could have been targeted.
Gun opponents would leave predatory cops armed and their victims helpless.
The likely unintentional result if the City of Los Angeles implements its plans to reduce the proposed police department budget (now $1.8B) by $100-150M.
It depends, whether as to looting or other threats to property.
"The people of Polk County like guns, they have guns."
They're using their Second Amendment rights to protect local businesses from riots and looting.
Considering Stormtroopers aren't known for their aim, the police had nothing to fear.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unilateral order confirms suspicions that government is always on the verge of abusing its power.
So holds a federal district court.
Such bans have already proven to be essentially valueless for crime-fighting.
The court was applying a specific Virginia statute that limited the Governor's emergency powers as to guns.
The store owner thought his employee acted in reasonable defense of property and self. The police disagreed.
“The federal government forgot the Tenth Amendment and the structure of the Constitution itself.”
Lawmakers are peddling restrictions on self-defense and other rights to a frightened public.
An interesting, though inconclusive, case involving preppers.
though subject to stringent rules aimed at preventing coronavirus spread.
Can it justify temporarily forbidding people to buy guns?
The order activates a pre-existing ordinance, which authorizes a wide range of actions, including curfews, alcohol sales, gun sales, property seizures, and more.
When it comes to guns, pretty much nothing is legal in New Jersey, according to their police.
"I was, at the time, very scared."
District Attorney Jackie Lacey faces re-election today against a tough field calling for more criminal justice reforms.
A high-profile gun case actually presents meaty questions of administrative law
“Why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”
stemming from a dispute about picketing and open carry.
Under New York's rules, licensed pistol and revolver owners were not allowed to leave home with their handguns unless they were traveling to or from a shooting range.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
a good reason to repost Prof. Nicholas Johnson's guest-post on 2014, based on his book Negroes and the Gun.
An interesting federal court opinion.
The proposal is parodying, not endorsing, the nanny state.
The legislation aims to undo the "egregiously unconstitutional registration, taxation, and regulation of short-barreled rifles."