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Reclaiming Rights

The never-ending struggle to go about your business without fear of government sanction

Matt Welch | 9.7.2010 7:00 AM

Noise Complaint Leads to Police Shooting, Killing 17-Year-Old

Radley Balko | 9.3.2010 3:41 PM

And That's the Problem, Lt. Healy

Radley Balko | 9.2.2010 4:00 PM

Second Amendment Foundation Sues Over Chicago Range Ban

Brian Doherty | 8.18.2010 1:12 PM

Does Disgraced "Historian" Michael Bellesiles Deserve A Second Chance?

Damon Root | 8.5.2010 3:26 PM

The Persecution of Gilbert Arenas

How gun prohibitionists and an image-conscious NBA scapegoated a basketball star

Daniel Wattenberg | 8.3.2010 7:00 AM

Otis McDonald One Step Closer to Exercising His Second Amendment Rights

Damon Root | 7.27.2010 12:35 PM

Post-McDonald Challenges to Gun Laws—From the Second Amendment Foundation and, Believe It or Not, the ACLU

Brian Doherty | 7.16.2010 1:50 PM

Gun Control Goes International

Damon Root | 7.12.2010 4:56 PM

The Democratic Party vs. The Supreme Court

Brian Doherty | 7.12.2010 8:16 AM

Civil Rights and Armed Self-Defense

Understanding Clarence Thomas' extraordinary concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago

Damon Root | 7.9.2010 4:30 PM

The First Amendment Right to Carry a Gun

Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2010 10:48 AM

Instapundit on What the Gun Rights Revolution Says About Political Action

Nick Gillespie | 7.5.2010 7:10 AM

Will Chicago Obey McDonald v. Chicago?

Damon Root | 7.2.2010 2:20 PM

The Aftermath of McDonald v. Chicago

What's next for gun rights?

Brian Doherty | 7.1.2010 4:30 PM

"His advocacy for black self-defense is straight from the heart of Malcolm X."

Damon Root | 7.1.2010 10:50 AM

Sonia Sotomayor and the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 6.30.2010 8:57 AM

Gun Shy

Four Supreme Court justices make the case against constitutional rights.

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2010 7:00 AM

Stevens Calls the Right to Arms a 'Property Right' (for Him, the Ultimate Insult)

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 4:20 PM

Breyer: Now Judges Will Have to Decide What a Semiautomatic Is

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 3:25 PM

Reason Writers Around Town: Damon Root on McDonald v. Chicago

Reason Staff | 6.29.2010 11:46 AM

Libertarians Respond to McDonald v. Chicago

Damon Root | 6.28.2010 2:01 PM

Justice John Paul Stevens Is Wrong About Gun Rights, Again

Damon Root | 6.28.2010 12:24 PM

Supreme Court Overturns Chicago Gun Ban

Jacob Sullum | 6.28.2010 10:13 AM

Guns Save Lives

Why the right to keep and bear arms is essential in a free society

John Stossel | 6.24.2010 12:00 PM

Predicting the Chicago Gun Case

Damon Root | 6.15.2010 5:15 PM

Free Speech and Guns

Legal superstar Eugene Volokh on the Bill of Rights in 2010

Eugene Volokh and Ted Balaker | 6.15.2010 7:00 AM

DISCLOSE Act Exemption: Only Big, Powerful Lobbies Need Apply

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2010 6:21 PM

Did the Gun Lobby Abort D.C.'s Congressional Vote?

Matt Welch | 6.9.2010 1:11 PM

"Chicago will need some new and sensible legislating"

Damon Root | 6.9.2010 9:48 AM

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Conservatives v. Libertarians

The debate over judicial activism divides former allies.

Damon Root | 6.8.2010 7:00 AM

The Persecution of Gilbert Arenas

How gun prohibitionists and an image-conscious NBA scapegoated a basketball star.

Daniel Wattenberg | 6.3.2010 3:00 PM

The Unbearable Rightness of Being Armed

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2010 6:01 PM

Distorting Elena Kagan's Second Amendment Record

Damon Root | 5.19.2010 2:48 PM

The Truth About Gun Sales to Terrorists

Should suspected terrorists be barred from buying guns?

Steve Chapman | 5.17.2010 7:00 AM

The Slaughterhouse Cases: Getting the 14th Amendment Wrong for 137 Years

Damon Root | 4.14.2010 12:47 PM

Unfaithful Friend of Liberty

John Paul Stevens' spotty record as a defender of individual rights

Jacob Sullum | 4.14.2010 7:00 AM

Obama's Supreme Court Shortlist and the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 4.12.2010 1:09 PM

Gun Controllers Need Not Fear 'Intermediate Scrutiny'

Jacob Sullum | 4.7.2010 4:32 PM

When A Missed Connection Leads to Jail Time

Brian Doherty | 3.31.2010 3:42 PM

Pre-Crime Policing

Allegedly "disgruntled" man has his guns seized, and "voluntarily" surrenders to two SWAT teams and dozens of police officers for a crime that hadn't been committed

Radley Balko | 3.16.2010 12:00 PM

How Sensitive Is Your Park?

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2010 6:36 PM

Will Justice Scalia Abandon Originalism in the Chicago Gun Case?

Damon Root | 3.9.2010 11:01 AM

Gun Control, Judicial Restraint, and McDonald v. Chicago

Damon Root | 3.8.2010 3:57 PM

Put That Thing Away!

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2010 11:32 AM

Starbucks, Like Robert Heinlein & William S. Burroughs, Knows That an Armed Society is a Polite Society

Nick Gillespie | 3.5.2010 3:53 PM

Guns for All, Privileges or Immunities for None

The hearings in McDonald v. Chicago promise an unrevolutionary victory-but still an important one

Brian Doherty | 3.4.2010 3:00 PM

Justice Scalia's Faint-Hearted 14th Amendment Originalism

Damon Root | 3.3.2010 10:28 AM

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