Guns

Politics

Conservatives v. Libertarians

The debate over judicial activism divides former allies.

Damon Root | 6.8.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

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

Politics

The Unbearable Rightness of Being Armed

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2010 6:01 PM

Politics

Distorting Elena Kagan's Second Amendment Record

Damon Root | 5.19.2010 2:48 PM

Politics

The Truth About Gun Sales to Terrorists

Should suspected terrorists be barred from buying guns?

Steve Chapman | 5.17.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

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

Damon Root | 4.14.2010 12:47 PM

Politics

Unfaithful Friend of Liberty

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

Jacob Sullum | 4.14.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Obama's Supreme Court Shortlist and the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 4.12.2010 1:09 PM

Politics

Gun Controllers Need Not Fear 'Intermediate Scrutiny'

Jacob Sullum | 4.7.2010 4:32 PM

Politics

When A Missed Connection Leads to Jail Time

Brian Doherty | 3.31.2010 3:42 PM

Policy

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

Politics

How Sensitive Is Your Park?

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2010 6:36 PM

Politics

Will Justice Scalia Abandon Originalism in the Chicago Gun Case?

Damon Root | 3.9.2010 11:01 AM

Politics

Gun Control, Judicial Restraint, and McDonald v. Chicago

Damon Root | 3.8.2010 3:57 PM

Politics

Put That Thing Away!

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2010 11:32 AM

Policy

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

Nick Gillespie | 3.5.2010 3:53 PM

Politics

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

Politics

Justice Scalia's Faint-Hearted 14th Amendment Originalism

Damon Root | 3.3.2010 10:28 AM

Politics

Carry On

Does the Second Amendment apply outside the home?

Jacob Sullum | 3.3.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

McDonald v. Chicago Hearings Today: Looks Good for Guns, Probably not so Good for the Privileges or Immunities Clause

Brian Doherty | 3.2.2010 3:31 PM

Politics

A Majority for Incorporation of the Second Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2010 3:08 PM

Politics

New York Times: Gun Control OK, Slaughterhouse "Terrible"

Damon Root | 3.2.2010 9:37 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: Eugene Volokh on Gun Rights, Free Speech, Media Bias, & More

Reason Staff | 3.2.2010 7:58 AM

Policy

Reason Staffers on the Interwebs: Damon Root Talking Second Amendment With Judge Napolitano

Reason Staff | 3.1.2010 3:10 PM

Politics

Reason Supreme Court Preview: Does the Second Amendment Apply to the States?

Reason Staff | 3.1.2010 11:25 AM

Politics

Enough About Canada; Let's Shoot Some Anti-Baseball Terrorists, and Slap a Hockey Puck in the Nuts of Every Nostalgic Writer in New York

Matt Welch | 2.28.2010 11:44 PM

Politics

Getting the 14th Amendment Right

The Chicago gun case and the fight for economic liberty

Damon Root | 2.26.2010 3:00 PM

Politics

Guns: Not Just for the Home Anymore

Brian Doherty | 2.22.2010 5:31 PM

Politics

Does Justice Scalia Think the Second Amendment Applies Only to the Federal Government?

Damon Root | 2.19.2010 4:57 PM

Politics

Obama Spurns Gun Control

Why the anti-gun lobby is disappointed with Obama's first year

Steve Chapman | 2.15.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

The NRA Muscles into McDonald v. Chicago

"Gun nuts" battle "Constitution nuts" at the Supreme Court

Brian Doherty | 2.10.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Civil Rights and Armed Self-Defense

Damon Root | 2.8.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

Final Brief Filed in the Chicago Gun Case

Damon Root | 1.29.2010 4:37 PM

Politics

The NRA Wins Its Argument Time on McDonald

Brian Doherty | 1.26.2010 9:57 AM

Politics

D.C.'s Gun Carry Ban Challenged

Brian Doherty | 1.25.2010 8:53 AM

Policy

The Guy Was Guilty; the Cops Were Lying

Radley Balko | 1.25.2010 8:27 AM

Politics

Citizens United, Stare Decisis, and the Chicago Gun Case

Damon Root | 1.22.2010 3:42 PM

Politics

Liberals and Guns

Damon Root | 1.20.2010 4:02 PM

Politics

Brady Campaign Boosts Obama Campaign With Its Seal of Disapproval

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2010 6:54 PM

Politics

The New Ford Model

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2010 4:06 PM

Politics

That's Just A Little Bit More than the Law Will Allow

Damon Root | 1.7.2010 8:39 AM

Politics

The NRA Takes on McDonald v. Chicago

Reason Staff | 1.6.2010 10:50 PM

Politics

Chicago's Friends in the Gun Rights Fight

Damon Root | 1.6.2010 6:43 PM

Politics

Laboratories of Repression

We don't let the states "experiment" on the First Amendment. Should the Second Amendment receive any less respect?

Damon Root | 12.31.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Chicago Magazine on the Chicago Gun Case

Damon Root | 12.31.2009 9:09 AM

Politics

The Second Amendment and the Living Constitution

Damon Root | 12.18.2009 2:35 PM

Politics

Does the Second Amendment Apply in Chicago?

Understanding the stakes in the Supreme Court's next gun rights case

Damon Root | 12.15.2009 12:00 PM