Federal law treated the conviction -- for altering a motor vehicles department certificate that allowed the owner to have tinted windows on his car -- as a felony, because the maximum penalty was five years in prison. But state law treated it as a misdemeanor, and the defendant was sentenced only to a year's probation.
"Since openly carrying a handgun is not only not unlawful [in Washington], but is an individual right protected by the federal and state constitutions [as the Washington Supreme Court had earlier held]," it cannot "be the basis, without more, for an investigative stop."
Shouldn't he be avoiding most of the whole state of Washington?
Among other things, it would call for investigators to review three years' worth of a would-be gun buyer's social media postings for "excessive discriminatory content."
Come from England or Japan for a short visit? Feel free to shoot at a range! Return on a student visa? Federal felony for you (and friends who take you) if you go shooting. Unless, of course, you've gotten a hunting license -- even if the range visit is completely unrelated to the hunting.
Blame normal TSA incompetence, not the government shutdown, for allowing a passenger to smuggle a firearm through security.
An interesting opinion from an Illinois appellate judge, arguing against the Illinois rule under which it's a crime to possess a gun with a defaced serial number even if one has no reason to know that it's defaced.
Federal law bans felons, illegal aliens, and others from knowingly possessing guns (or ammunition); does the government also have to show that the defendant knew he was a felon, illegal alien, or within some other prohibited category? [UPDATE: Last paragraph corrected.]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look.
Other circuit courts have reached the same result, though not all have used the same reasoning.
Control freaks have turned to dishonest rulemaking and outright censorship in doomed but still dangerous efforts to take people's weapons away.
Currently, most Florida public school teachers can't carry in the classroom.
J.D. Tuccille, Lisa Snell, and Rob Long discuss the democratization of everything at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
This might not be what lawmakers had in mind when they created this program.
The "questionable" "editing choices," the court said, weren't sufficiently injurious to reputation to qualify as libelous (whether or not they conveyed a false message).
Meanwhile, the officers involved can't get their stories straight.
Sophisticated firearms are becoming ever-easier to illicitly manufacture in basic workshops, says a new report. We'll even show you how to do it!
Even the Obama administration recognized it didn't have the authority to ban bump stocks.
Police chief calls it a "spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it."
Emantic Bradford Jr. may have had a gun. But he didn't deserve to die.
So holds a federal court, concluding that such e-mails with photos of gun crime victims, coupled with statements such as "Thought you should see a few photos of handiwork of the assault rifles you support," were protected by the First Amendment.
While Swalwell insists it was 'sarcasm' it's bad form to reply to a citizen aggrieved at openly threatening constitutional rights connected with self and civil defense with implied threat of mass murder.
... extends to public high school students, holds a federal judge in Wisconsin.
An interesting motion for a temporary restraining order, arguing based on the First Amendment, the dormant Commerce Clause, 47 U.S.C. § 230, and more.
The difference between exercising one's 2nd Amendment right and "looking very threatening and intimidating."
The NRA alleges that New York officials are trying to pressure banks and insurance companies not to deal with the NRA, because of the NRA's political activities.
University Police issued a warning even after admitting that the student did nothing wrong.
Reloaders and DIY gunmakers alike are motivated by innovation and a willingness to make for themselves what the government doesn't want them to have.
David Harsanyi's First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun documents the unique presence of firearms in U.S. life.
Ilya Vett claims he was making the gun as a "gift" for his brother. But he was still arrested and charged with attempted criminal possession of a firearm.
Criminologist Gary Kleck debated Paul Helmke, the former president and CEO of the Brady Center, at the Soho Forum.
"You got the wrong address. Don't shoot my daughter."
His enterprising operation illustrates the valuable role porous borders play in undermining restrictive laws.
Sen. Kamala Harris tried to limit the storefront speech of firearms sellers as California attorney general.
So a federal judge just held.
Criminologist Gary Kleck revises his paper on the incidence of the use of firearms for self-protection.
The urge to suppress runs up against targets which have no form, shape, or fixed location, and can be infinitely reproduced.
Oregon is one of a handful states that bans age discrimination against 18-to-20-year-olds by places of public accommodation.
Authorities say Krissy Noble was justified in shooting and killing a home intruder while she was pregnant.
"While not a criminal matter, an order of protection exposes a respondent to an array of restrictions, including severe limitations on his or her Second Amendment rights. A respondent deserves a meaningful due process opportunity to present his or her case."
