“Nothing in the Second Amendment’s text draws a home/public distinction with respect to the right to keep and bear arms,” says New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
The legislation prohibits firearm sales based on juvenile records and subsidizes state laws that suspend gun rights without due process.
Senators are mulling legislation that would expand the categories of people who are disqualified from owning guns.
Big rulings are coming soon on school choice, guns, and abortion.
and reverses a precedent that suggested that viewpoint-neutral speech restrictions in public K-12 schools are generally permissible.
The government should loosen laws, reduce conflict between government and the public, and let people defend themselves.
If Congress decides to encourage them, it should not overlook the importance of due process protections.
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Although the Arkansas senator claims to be targeting "violent felons," his draconian bill would affect many people who pose no threat.
What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.
In the long term, disarmament often leads to mass murder by government.
Protective devices incapable of offensive use are now unavailable for legal purchase by New Yorkers.
The administration's slippery terminology illustrates the challenge of distinguishing between "good" and "bad" guns.
An analysis of such crimes suggests the president’s policy prescriptions are unlikely to have a meaningful impact.
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The president implies that anyone who resists his agenda is complicit in the murder of innocents.
Because there is no reliable way to identify future mass shooters, it is inevitable that many innocent people will lose their Second Amendment rights.
Faculty/Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response (FASTER)
Democrats love to blame their troubles on Senate rules. They should look in the mirror instead.
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
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No hollow promise can replace our attachments to our children, spouses, friends, and our own lives.
Two federal appeals courts recently concluded that such age restrictions are unconstitutional.
The Charleston (West Virginia) incident from a few days ago, the FBI 2021 statistics, and more.
David Kopel at the National Firearms Law Seminar
"There were 19 officers in there," said a police spokesperson. "In fact, there were plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done."
Why did it take an hour for the police to stop alleged killer Salvador Ramos?
Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
Neither expanded background checks nor a federal "assault weapon" ban can reasonably be expected to have a meaningful impact on such crimes.
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The answer to “Why should these people go to prison?” should not be ill-informed gibberish.
These three gun controls failed in New York, and there is little reason to think they would work elsewhere.
There's much we don't know about the shooting in Texas that left at least 21 people dead, including 19 children. Nevertheless, Joe Biden knows exactly who to blame and how to stop future shootings.
It's not clear which guns she is talking about, and even Collins does not seem to know.
Predicting violence is a lot harder than people claim in retrospect, and a wider net inevitably ensnares more innocent people.
The vast majority do not have disqualifying records, and "universal" requirements are easily evaded.
The problem is not sneaky entrepreneurs who sell accessories; it's legislators who ban guns based on functionally unimportant features.
The paper blames a "gun-buying spree" during the pandemic for the 2020 jump in murders.
