Guns
When Gun Control Is Censorship
New Defense Distributed chief Paloma Heindorff on making guns, fighting lawsuits, and life after Cody Wilson
Armslist Not Liable for Allowing Searches for Private-Seller Gun Ads
So the Wisconsin Supreme Court held yesterday, reversing a Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision.
First Amendment Challenge to L.A.'s Requirement That Contractors Disclose Ties to NRA
Just filed yesterday, and I think it should prevail.
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy Wants To Raise Gun Permit Fees by 2,000 Percent
But most gun crimes are carried out with out-of-state firearms.
The Second Amendment in Public Housing
The East St. Louis Housing Authority stipulates to allowing residents to possess guns.
High School Suspends 2 Students for Posting Gun Range Photos on Snapchat, ACLU Files Suit
"Sharing our completely legal weekend activities on Snapchat should not result three days of in-school suspensions," Cody Conroy told Reason.
In New Zealand, a Democracy Turns Against Itself
Under pressure, democracies have a nasty habit of acting like panicked crowds.
Right to Possess Stun Guns in N.Y., Right to Carry Them in Illinois
Two Second Amendment wins late last week.
Indiana Teachers Say Cops Shot Them with Airsoft Bullets During Active Shooter Training
How does shooting teachers with pellet guns make anyone safer?
Fight the Soft Totalitarianism of Social Media Cooperation with Government
With big tech helping government officials to control the sharing of information, we need to support alternatives to undermine their censorious efforts.
The U.S. Must Stop Supporting War in Yemen, Says Senate
Plus: a Rand Paul add-on makes sure measure doesn't inadvertently authorize new wars, Dick's stores are dropping guns, campus art controversy, and good 8A news
Florida Bill Would Make It a Crime for Minors to Post Pictures of Guns on Social Media
Clearly unconstitutional, of course.
Illinois Police Admit That Oversight in a Background Check Allowed a Mass Shooter to Get a Gun
The problem isn't a lack of laws, but poor implementation of those laws.
Community College Bans Pro-Second-Amendment Banner with Picture of Rifles
A clear violation of the First Amendment -- and not even justified under the College's own stated reasons.
Los Angeles Demanding That City Contractors Disclose Ties to the NRA
But the new ordinance violates the First Amendment, because it tends to deter (and deliberately so) association with an advocacy group.
Right to Carry Guns in Public Headed for Ninth Circuit En Banc
A panel decision had said there is such a right to carry (though the state can decide whether people must carry openly or may carry concealed); the Ninth Circuit has just agreed to rehear the matter with an 11-judge panel.
Gun Control Is Still Dead: Paloma Heindorff on Homemade Firearms and Defense Distributed After Cody Wilson
After Cody Wilson was arrested on a sex crime charge, Heindorff took the helm at Defense Distributed. Now she's leading a massive free speech battle over the right to download a gun.
Illinois Seeks Social Media Accounts of Gun Owners: Reason Roundup
Plus: Nancy Pelosi on the "Green New Deal"; John Boehner, cannabis lobbyist
Gun Decontrol, 1986 to Now
The latest map of state laws related to concealed carry, 1986 to 2019, is out -- and it's striking.
Does the Second Amendment Secure a Right to Carry Guns in Most Public Places?
Another cert. petition asks the Supreme Court to resolve the circuit split on this question.
Alabama Cop 'Justified' in Killing Innocent Man, Says State Attorney General
The AG's report suggests Emantic Bradford was in the wrong for simply carrying a firearm.
California's ban on all new pistol models: Supreme Court amicus brief
Since 2013, California has outlawed new semiautomatic handguns
New Jersey Slaps Criminal Penalties on Gun Manufacturing Instructions
The state can't scrub gun manufacturing info from the internet, so they're trying to make distributing it a crime--First Amendment be damned.
Second Amendment Right Regained, Despite 20-Year-Old Conviction
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.
Second and Fourth Amendments
"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."
Washington Lt. Gov. Skips Governor's Speech Because People with Concealed Carry Permits Could Attend
Shouldn't he be avoiding most of the whole state of Washington?
N.Y. Bill Would Violate Gun Rights, Free Speech Rights, and Privacy
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."
Many Foreign Tourists -- and Most Foreign Students -- Are Barred from Going to Shooting Ranges
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.
For Once, the TSA Is Right
Blame normal TSA incompetence, not the government shutdown, for allowing a passenger to smuggle a firearm through security.
More on Guns and Strict Liability
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.
Illegal Aliens, Guns, and Strict Liability
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.]
Assault Weapon Bans Are All About Appearance
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look.
Ninth Circuit Upholds Federal Ban on Gun Ownership by Illegal Aliens
Other circuit courts have reached the same result, though not all have used the same reasoning.
2018 Brought a Bumper Crop of Bad Gun Laws to Disobey
Control freaks have turned to dishonest rulemaking and outright censorship in doomed but still dangerous efforts to take people's weapons away.
Florida State Commission Recommends Arming Teachers to Keep Schools Safe
Currently, most Florida public school teachers can't carry in the classroom.
Democratizing Gun Production, Education, and Media: Podcast
J.D. Tuccille, Lisa Snell, and Rob Long discuss the democratization of everything at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
Baltimore Woman Says She'll Use Gun Buyback Cash to Pay for an Even Bigger Gun
This might not be what lawmakers had in mind when they created this program.
Fourth Circuit Rejects Libel Claims over Misleading Edits in Katie Couric's "Under the Gun"
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).
Alabama Police Shot Innocent Man Three Times From the Back, Independent Autopsy Says
Meanwhile, the officers involved can't get their stories straight.
When Governments Restrict Guns, People Make Their Own By the Millions
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!
