The process for obtaining "extreme risk protection orders" that take away people's Second Amendment rights is rigged against gun owners from the outset.
Just filed yesterday, and I think it should prevail.
But most gun crimes are carried out with out-of-state firearms.
The California senator claims she could impose "near-universal background checks" and close the "boyfriend loophole" without new legislation.
The East St. Louis Housing Authority stipulates to allowing residents to possess guns.
The organization objects to gun restrictions only if they impinge on other constitutional provisions.
"Sharing our completely legal weekend activities on Snapchat should not result three days of in-school suspensions," Cody Conroy told Reason.
The House version of the reauthorization bill includes new gun restrictions that sweep too broadly.
New York cops and the president arbitrarily turn legal products into contraband.
The Second Amendment covers magazines holding more than 10 rounds, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez says, because they are commonly used for lawful purposes.
Under pressure, democracies have a nasty habit of acting like panicked crowds.
The ban, which took effect this week, usurps congressional authority by rewriting an inconvenient law.
Two Second Amendment wins late last week.
The government is prohibiting "military-style semi-automatics" and redefining them to include most guns with detachable magazines.
How does shooting teachers with pellet guns make anyone safer?
With big tech helping government officials to control the sharing of information, we need to support alternatives to undermine their censorious efforts.
Press release from Jersey senator asks Twitter to censor specific user @ivanthetroll12.
The Connecticut Supreme Court rejects an absurdly broad definition of "negligent entrustment" but allows a claim based on "unfair trading practices."
Plus: a Rand Paul add-on makes sure measure doesn't inadvertently authorize new wars, Dick's stores are dropping guns, campus art controversy, and good 8A news
Clearly unconstitutional, of course.
Following the lead of their rebellious constituents, local officials say they won't enforce despised rules.
Two bills dealing with background checks would criminalize innocent behavior and unjustly interfere with the exercise of Second Amendment rights.
A lame headline provokes even lamer charges of incitement to violence.
The problem isn't a lack of laws, but poor implementation of those laws.
A clear violation of the First Amendment -- and not even justified under the College's own stated reasons.
The mass shooting became a story about gun control. But it's also a story of incomprehensible government failure.
But the new ordinance violates the First Amendment, because it tends to deter (and deliberately so) association with an advocacy group.
A panel decision had said there is such a right to carry (though the state can decide whether people must carry openly or may carry concealed); the Ninth Circuit has just agreed to rehear the matter with an 11-judge panel.
After Cody Wilson was arrested on a sex crime charge, Heindorff took the helm at Defense Distributed. Now she's leading a massive free speech battle over the right to download a gun.
Plus: Nancy Pelosi on the "Green New Deal"; John Boehner, cannabis lobbyist
The latest map of state laws related to concealed carry, 1986 to 2019, is out -- and it's striking.
Another cert. petition asks the Supreme Court to resolve the circuit split on this question.
The AG's report suggests Emantic Bradford was in the wrong for simply carrying a firearm.
Since 2013, California has outlawed new semiautomatic handguns
The state can't scrub gun manufacturing info from the internet, so they're trying to make distributing it a crime--First Amendment be damned.
Federal law treated the conviction -- for altering a motor vehicles department certificate that allowed the owner to have tinted windows on his car -- as a felony, because the maximum penalty was five years in prison. But state law treated it as a misdemeanor, and the defendant was sentenced only to a year's probation.
"Since openly carrying a handgun is not only not unlawful [in Washington], but is an individual right protected by the federal and state constitutions [as the Washington Supreme Court had earlier held]," it cannot "be the basis, without more, for an investigative stop."
New York City's arbitrary restrictions on transporting firearms give SCOTUS a chance to curtail rampant disrespect for the Second Amendment.
In first Supreme Court Second Amendment case since 2010, Court must decide whether the right applies in any meaningful sense outside the home.
Five-round magazines and background checks for ammo purchases
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