"Dreamer" Dreams of the Right to Own a Gun
Dream on, says a federal district court.
Under Obama the ATF admitted that Congress denied it authority to ban bump-fire stocks on AR-15s, but now the ban seems imminent.
A decade after recognizing a constitutional right to armed self-defense, the Supreme Court remains reluctant to defend it.
Will widespread private arms rebalance power between individuals and the state? It looks like we're going to find out.
No, says the Illinois Appellate Court.
New York's governor favors "extreme risk protection orders" that could be obtained by a wide range of people based on little evidence.
Once again, lawmakers propose to use the regulatory state to punish people they don't like.
From DIY guns to designer drugs, classic-car parts, and human livers, 3D printing promises a dynamic and uncontrollable world.
Our video is awesome. But nothing in the First Amendment says YouTube has to run it.
We offer how-tos, personal stories, and guides for all kinds of activities that can and do happen right at the borders of legally permissible behavior.
Build a Glock 17 using parts from the internet
Let's argue about the president's policies instead of his "grammar & style."
The Supreme Court has been almost completely silent on the subject of gun rights, leaving important issues unresolved.
Civil debate, whether on Trump/Russia, gun policy, or fungible abortion funding, begins in the workplace.
Probably nothing. Which doesn't mean libertarians shouldn't be having a serious conversation after Santa Fe, Parkland, and other tragedies.
None of the usual gun control proposals seems relevant to the massacre at Santa Fe High School.
A Washington Post headline misleads its readers.
Politicians, activists rehash calls for increased security, regulation of guns.
"For the safety of students of color"
The city council's unanimous support for the new ban does not make up for its lack of logic and legality.
More Second Amendment setbacks in the Golden State when the Supreme Court declines to take a case about city zoning
Data from the FBI's Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2016 and 2017 report; legal civilian gun carriers tried to intervene in 6 out of 50 incidents, and apparently succeeded in 3 or 4 of them.
How a scary name for an arbitrary group of firearms distorts the gun control debate
Golden State gun owners may soon be an endangered species, and no one is talking about why.
Self-defense rights need to be a cause in themselves, not just a totem of political tribal identity.
When it comes to the Second Amendment, the president is all talk.
The outrage at a Florida newspaper reveals a deep antipathy toward all forms of gun ownership.
Students who support the Second Amendment "feel that they're being misrepresented by the media," says protest organizer Will Riley.
Siwatu-Salama Ra used a legally purchased firearm to protect her family. She was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Peashooter prohibitions are on the rise.
In a politicized environment, getting on the wrong side of regulators can be dangerous. Don't be surprised if banks and insurers cave.
Brooklyn Council Member Justin Brannan crows via tweet that "we've successfully chased the @NRA underground in #Brooklyn."
So a federal district court in Illinois held yesterday.
Parkland survivor and pro-gun activist Kyle Kashuv was also punished.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals let a case against gun-sales advertising site Armslist go forward -- and in the process undermined 47 U.S.C. § 230 protection for a wide range of web sites.
A Nevada school district unlawfully required a student not to wear a gun rights T-shirt, according to a First Amendment lawsuit filed today in federal court.
Restricting guns-or vans, knives, or planes-won't make the world safer. The Toronto van attack reminds us peril lies in people with bad intent, not with how they get it done.
Having failed to thwart crime with gun bans, British officials now want to restrict what may be the most useful tool ever invented.
Assault weapon ban proposals are more and more popular, but the facts about American gun violence show they'd have little positive effect.
CDC surveys in the 1990s, never publicly reported, indicate nearly 2.5 million defensive uses of guns a year. That matches the results of Gary Kleck's controversial surveys, and it indicates more defensive than offensive uses of guns.
On another National School Walkout day, 57 percent of teens are worried about dying in a school shooting. They shouldn't be.
The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected the Massachusetts court's earlier arguments for why stun guns aren't covered by the Second Amendment, but had sent the case back for the Massachusetts court to consider other arguments.
The therapists would be mandatory in middle and high schools.
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