The ruling has significant shortcomings and may be overruled on appeal. The Biden Administration's position in this litigation is wrong for much the same reasons as the Trump Administration was wrong to target immigration sanctuaries.
Judges and prosecutors accused James and Jennifer Crumbley of negligent behavior despite the fact that school officials at the time reached many of the same judgments.
"It's very easy for politicians to legislate freedom away," says Northwood University's Kristin Tokarev. "But it's incredibly hard to get back."
The president and his predecessor both tried to impose gun control by executive fiat.
Politicians lean on the financial industry to target activities they don’t like.
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Historian Jeff Guinn's account focuses on the ATF's oft-overlooked fiasco in the 1993 affair rather than the FBI's widely reported involvement.
A New York Times story about the state's location-specific gun bans glosses over the vast territory they cover.
After a tragic on-set accident, a district attorney used a law passed after the incident to threaten Baldwin with years in jail.
The El Paso incident from a few days ago, the FBI 2021 statistics, and more.
The longest-serving California senator was a hardline drug warrior, a surveillance hawk, and no friend of freedom.
Guidance for judicial examination of legal history.
Although the law did not change, regulators suddenly decided to criminalize unregistered possession of braced pistols.
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As usual, Biden's gun policy proposals bump up against reality.
The government argued that marijuana users have no Second Amendment rights because they are dangerous, unvirtuous, and untrustworthy.
Judge James Ho concurs, adding "I write separately to point out that our Founders firmly believed in the fundamental role of government in protecting citizens against violence, as well as the individual right to keep and bear arms—and that these two principles are not inconsistent but entirely compatible with one another."
The president seems to have forgotten his concession that such laws leave murderers with plenty of options that are "just as deadly."
The actor is a polarizing figure. That shouldn't matter when evaluating the criminal case against him.
The researchers identified 662 cases involving threats to multiple victims, but they concede that it's likely "there are many more threats than completed events."
So the Florida Supreme Court held today.
The city has not granted a single permit since the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last June.
an argument about post-Bruen gun legislation from Robert Leider.
By banning firearms from a wide range of "sensitive places," the state effectively nullified the right to bear arms.
The law is hard to defend on logical, practical, or constitutional grounds.
Because of a misdemeanor welfare fraud conviction, Bryan Range is no longer allowed to own guns.
The decision defends the separation of powers and the rule of law against an attempt to prohibit firearm accessories by administrative fiat.
A majority of judges concluded the plain language of the statute does not apply to bump stocks, but they also would have denied Chevron deference had they found the statute ambiguous.
People in power lean on private businesses to impose authoritarian policies forbidden to the government.
discriminates against religious institutions
That the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension "was able to assemble the shotgun components using a stock bolt and a stock bolt washer from another firearm" "was sufficient to prove that the unassembled shotgun parts in this case constituted a firearm."
In historical inquiry, reasoning by analogy is a commonplace task for any lawyer or judge.
Courts, not “experts,” should say what the law is.
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