The Ninth Circuit had earlier held -- citing D.C. v. Heller -- that the Second Amendment doesn't secure a right to concealed carry, but the panel now holds that it secures a right to carry openly (though it reserves the possibility that a state might be able to choose whether to allow open carry or to allow concealed carry).
The New York senator is scared that people will build semi-automatic weapons from the comfort of their homes.
Gun owners can now enjoy First and Second Amendment safeguards.
The panel concludes that the district court didn't abuse its discretion in issuing the injunction -- though the decision is non-binding.
An agent who accidentally shot someone while dancing can't be around alcohol, but can keep his gun.
Will widespread private arms rebalance power between individuals and the state? It looks like we're going to find out.
No, says the Illinois Appellate Court.
Once again, lawmakers propose to use the regulatory state to punish people they don't like.
From DIY guns to designer drugs, classic-car parts, and human livers, 3D printing promises a dynamic and uncontrollable world.
Our video is awesome. But nothing in the First Amendment says YouTube has to run it.
We offer how-tos, personal stories, and guides for all kinds of activities that can and do happen right at the borders of legally permissible behavior.
Build a Glock 17 using parts from the internet
Civil debate, whether on Trump/Russia, gun policy, or fungible abortion funding, begins in the workplace.
A Washington Post headline misleads its readers.
"For the safety of students of color"
Data from the FBI's Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2016 and 2017 report; legal civilian gun carriers tried to intervene in 6 out of 50 incidents, and apparently succeeded in 3 or 4 of them.
Self-defense rights need to be a cause in themselves, not just a totem of political tribal identity.
In a politicized environment, getting on the wrong side of regulators can be dangerous. Don't be surprised if banks and insurers cave.
So a federal district court in Illinois held yesterday.
Parkland survivor and pro-gun activist Kyle Kashuv was also punished.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals let a case against gun-sales advertising site Armslist go forward -- and in the process undermined 47 U.S.C. § 230 protection for a wide range of web sites.
Restricting guns-or vans, knives, or planes-won't make the world safer. The Toronto van attack reminds us peril lies in people with bad intent, not with how they get it done.
CDC surveys in the 1990s, never publicly reported, indicate nearly 2.5 million defensive uses of guns a year. That matches the results of Gary Kleck's controversial surveys, and it indicates more defensive than offensive uses of guns.
On another National School Walkout day, 57 percent of teens are worried about dying in a school shooting. They shouldn't be.
The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected the Massachusetts court's earlier arguments for why stun guns aren't covered by the Second Amendment, but had sent the case back for the Massachusetts court to consider other arguments.
Fatal shootings in Portland and Brooklyn demonstrate how fear pushes officers to escalate encounters.
"I do not believe that the American public wants banks to decide which legal products consumers can and cannot buy."
Students say your right to own a gun conflicts with their right to feel secure.
"Certain guns, like AR-15s, shouldn't even be accessible to the public."
Cody Wilson fears that major private institutions are trying to make gunmakers non-persons.
The companies likely must make exemptions for those states that ban the merchants from discriminating based on age.
Recent events such as the student walkout to promote gun control raise the issue of how much credibility we should give to the political views of the young, and victims of crime. At least as a general rule, there is no reason to give those views any special credence.
The anonymous plaintiff offers a pretty compelling factual story -- but the legal analysis is surprisingly unsettled.
Michigan public accommodations law bans discrimination based on age by businesses open to the public, including retailers.
Oregon law generally bans discrimination in selling goods based on age, so this lawsuit looks like a winner.
Age restrictions, body armor bans, and constitutional carry.
Progressives push their luck with their totalitarian insistence that everybody is with them or against them on guns and so much else.
Cody Wilson on his war against power, the irreversible course of the 3D-printed gun, and America's Weimar moment
Celebrate your independence with a subscription to Reason magazine, your most trusted source of honest, insightful news and analysis.
