“Why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”
stemming from a dispute about picketing and open carry.
The former vice president's accusations require a couple of footnotes.
Under New York's rules, licensed pistol and revolver owners were not allowed to leave home with their handguns unless they were traveling to or from a shooting range.
The presidential candidate’s gun control platform, like his defense of "stop and frisk," sacrifices civil liberties on the altar of public safety.
Legislators who approved a bunch of other gun control bills could not agree on what features make a firearm intolerable.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
In Broward County, judges almost never reject police petitions for gun confiscation orders.
The former New York mayor is being called a racist for his former support of searching young minorities without cause.
Such inflammatory exaggeration seems designed to avoid a substantive discussion of the presidential candidate's gun control proposals.
The billionaire former three-term mayor of New York panders to Democratic loyalists rather than laying out a vision for a prosperous, tolerant America.
The bill's requirements for "emergency" orders are loose, and it does not give respondents a right to a court-appointed lawyer.
Erroneous predictions of violence at the Richmond rally conflated civil libertarians with militant racists.
Plus: Clinton says "nobody likes" Bernie, Biden wants Section 230 revoked, Iran takes responsibility for Jan. 8 plane crash, and more...
a good reason to repost Prof. Nicholas Johnson's guest-post on 2014, based on his book Negroes and the Gun.
If politicians are going to paint their opponents as illegitimate, they should be prepared to receive the same treatment in return.
There is no easy way to determine whether someone is spending a lot on guns because they like guns or because they plan to commit an act of terror.
The governor fears a gun-rights rally might turn violent; a judge refuses to stop him from barring weapons from the demonstration.
The petitioner, who cited the officer's 2017 shooting of her son, had no standing under Colorado's "red flag" law.
The song and music video amount to grotesque, self-obsessed celebrity activism.
An interesting federal court opinion.
The proposal is parodying, not endorsing, the nanny state.
Such a high approval rate reflects the threat these laws pose to due process and the Second Amendment.
The Illinois State Police confirms that people who try newly legal marijuana are not considered "unlawful users" of narcotics.
Two victims were killed at a church shooting in White Settlement, Texas. It would have been much worse had some parishioners not been armed.
The greatest threat to protections for our freedom may be people's fear that people who disagree with them are exercising their rights.
The legislation aims to undo the "egregiously unconstitutional registration, taxation, and regulation of short-barreled rifles."
Law enforcement betrayed the trust of gun owners who were doing their best to comply with government-mandated confiscation.
New York City’s successful defense of its arbitrary restrictions on transporting handguns highlights judicial disrespect for the Second Amendment.
Several justices seem skeptical of the claim that revising the rules after SCOTUS agreed to consider a challenge to them made the case moot.
The justices will hear oral arguments today in a major Second Amendment case.
Rhode Island is one of only two states that still prohibit civilian stun gun and Taser ownership.
Instead of reducing the dangers posed by criminals, California's gun restrictions have increased the threat posed to decent people by the law itself.
Rural communities continue to resist their legislatures’ attempts to enact gun control by declaring themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries.”
You might want to think twice about putting that new gun on your credit card.
Can't buy it? That's okay, you can easily get the pieces to build one yourself.
Various states sued to stop the feds from allowing such gun-making files to circulate legally. Now, a federal judge says the decision to not prohibit them was "arbitrary and capricious."
The plaintiffs now have to prove that Remington's advertising was not only "unfair or deceptive" but "a proximate cause" of the attack.
From Australia to Massachusetts, illegal gun makers step in to supply what legal markets aren’t allowed to produce.
In the unlikely event that the former New York mayor wins the Democratic nomination, the 2020 election will pit a billionaire busybody against a billionaire bully.
The Founders liked militias, but they also liked an armed citizenry. To them, the two ideas were inseparable.
The comedian received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in D.C. this weekend. His acceptance speech airs on PBS in January.
She didn't break the law or threaten anybody, but her school still panicked.
Well, at least they have the name!
Beto O’Rourke’s scheme would be an ineffectual attempt to enforce arbitrary distinctions.
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