Should a 'Potential Criminal Background' Override the Second Amendment?
Broad police discretion over who may own and carry guns seems blatantly unconstitutional.
Broad police discretion over who may own and carry guns seems blatantly unconstitutional.
Lancet study is far from proving its case, and highlights the difficulties of using statistical analysis to lead to causal conclusions about laws' effects.
At Pitzer College, offense trumps art.
The Nation relies on ad hominem attacks on one gun researcher, not facts.
Liberal academics who say they want more diversity are often lying.
What facts can the plaintiffs discover to substantiate their broad reading of "negligent entrustment"?
Has he changed his mind, or is he trying to have it both ways?
Some in federal prison may see sentence reductions.
A Brooklyn man is arrested for paying cops to "expedite" pistol permit applications, a business created by arbitrary regulations.
He has turned against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act but talks like he still supports it.
"The Obama administration initiated Operation Choke Point to punish law-abiding small businesses that don't align with the president's political leanings," says Cruz.
Millennial women are ambivalent about feminism, fans of Bernie Sanders, fearful of Donald Trump, and want government out of their uteruses and their gun racks, thanks.
Alabama man is also suing Utah cops for violating his Second Amendment rights
She says Vermont "has the highest per capita number" of New York crime guns bought in other states.
Trying to impugn Bernie Sanders, she falsely claims his state provides a big share of crime guns in hers.
Comedian/actor Carlo Bellario refuses to plea out and wants trial for the "crime" of having an unfired air gun during movie shoot.
With years of increasing domestic peace behind us, Americans should avoid policies that seem designed to empower organized crime.
SCOTUS rejects lower court ruling in Caetano v. Massachusetts.
Maybe because what tech could do for gun violence would affect only a tiny portion of an overall falling public health problem.
California's door-to-door gun confiscation program on the "prohibited" runs into funding problems.
It already allowed open carry without a permit, as do 25 other states.
Hillary Clinton falsely claims a law Sanders supported gave the industry "absolute immunity."
Maybe Congress needs better reasons to bar people from owning firearms.
Background checks do not affect murderers who are legally allowed to own guns.
The police can't be everywhere.
The billionaire developer has abandoned his support for "assault weapon" bans and waiting periods.
The late justice left unresolved the constitutionality of "assault weapon" bans and restrictions on carrying guns in public.
What will happen to gun rights if a Democrat picks his replacement?
The late Supreme Court justice's mixed legacy on liberty and the Constitution
Unlike Obama's gun control proposals, armed citizens can stop mass shooters who are invisible until they strike.
"NEVER AGAIN mthrfkrs!" says the Motor City Madman.
The ruling suggests Maryland's law will be overturned on Second Amendment grounds.
There are limits to the government's ability to make the country other than it is, and to force citizens to bend to official will.
Let's hope the police don't bring out their guns this time.
Feds reportedly investigating where his guns came from.
A South Carolina legislator's stunt bill tweaks the press for failing to take the Second Amendment seriously.
Freedom Watch's Larry Klayman claims Obama's proposed changes to gun dealer and mental health definitions violate Second Amendment rights and administrative procedure laws.
Like Obama and Clinton, the former Florida governor wants to "take rights away from law-abiding citizens."
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