Fiscal Analysis of Colorado's New 'Red Flag' Law Assumes Gun Confiscation Orders Will Be Granted 95% of the Time
Such a high approval rate reflects the threat these laws pose to due process and the Second Amendment.
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.
"Petitioner had absolutely no prior notice that either his mental health or the safe handling subsection would be at issue during the hearing before the trial court."
A change in Tennessee’s definition of a firearm allows for felons to own a gun provided it was manufactured before 1899.
Asked how he'd actually follow through on his promise to "take your AR-15," the former Texas congressman didn't have much of an answer.
The former HUD Secretary is still terrible on guns, but at least he recognizes some of the costs of actually enforcing gun laws.
"The safety of our children in school is paramount, today more than ever," said the police chief.
A decision based on a poor grasp of gun technology.
Plus: sex discrimination before SCOTUS today, Warren stands by pregnancy firing claim, and more...
"Red flag" laws leave gun owners defenseless.
The presidential contenders hyped the "epidemic" of gun violence and the threat posed by school shootings while perpetuating myths about "assault weapons," background checks, and the Second Amendment.
But none seem curious about how America gun homicide rates fell nearly in half from 1990s to early 2010s.
Increasingly theatrical and frightening active shooter drills are surprisingly common, even though school shootings are not.
Although San Francisco's supervisors urged city officials to punish contractors with ties to this "domestic terrorist organization," they say they did not really mean it.
The presidential contender says the 1994 ban made mass shootings less lethal, even though the guns it tolerated were "just as deadly."
Someone should tell Beto who did the killing at Kent State.
Would that outcome have been the same for those of us who aren't in law enforcement?
The Texas senator wants to beef up a background check system that unjustly and irrationally deprives people of their rights.
It would not do much to protect public safety, but it would magnify the injustice of existing restrictions on gun ownership.
Official responses to these extremely rare crimes are grossly disproportionate in light of the risk they actually pose.
America may be safer than ever, but residents of the Land of the Free seem set on raising their children in a climate of fear.
If a state criminal conviction leads to denial of gun rights under state law (not just federal law), the defendant must be given the option of a jury trial, rules the Nevada Supreme Court.
The presidential contender conspicuously fails to explain the legal basis for her plan to impose new restrictions by executive fiat.
The "assault weapons" that the presidential contender wants to confiscate are not especially deadly, but the symbolism of that policy is poisonous.
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