Gun Rights

Policy

The Gun Explosion

Why the firearms boom is good news for the American economy

Greg Beato | 4.19.2012 4:30 PM

Policy

Does the 'Backlash' Against 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Make Sense?

Jacob Sullum | 4.19.2012 12:03 PM

Policy

How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?

Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2012 4:47 PM

Policy

If George Zimmerman Loses a Pretrial Motion to Dismiss, He Can Still Be Acquitted

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 11:22 AM

Policy

George Zimmerman Charged With Second-Degree Murder

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 6:09 PM

Policy

WP Says Prosecutor Will Charge George Zimmerman

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 2:17 PM

Policy

The New York Times Gets Florida's Self-Defense Law Wrong. Again.

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 1:47 PM

Policy

Matt Welch Talks Pot Raids, Gun Sales, and Stones Songs on Varney & Co.

Matt Welch | 4.6.2012 5:05 PM

Policy

Shooting in the Dark

Three things people don't know about the Trayvon Martin case (but think they do)

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Did George Zimmerman Ignore the Police Dispatcher, and Why Did He Have a Gun?

Jacob Sullum | 4.3.2012 2:24 PM

Politics

Illinois Upholds Public Carry Ban on Weapons

Brian Doherty | 4.2.2012 8:34 PM

Policy

The Times Keeps Shouting 'Stand Your Ground,' While Reporting That the Real Issue Was Probable Cause

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 12:47 PM

Politics

Another Gun Rights Victory from Second Amendment Foundation

Brian Doherty | 3.29.2012 6:45 PM

Politics

Support Wanes When Costs Considered for Congressional Action to Guarantee Health Insurance: Evidence from Reason-Rupe and Gallup Polls

Emily Ekins | 3.29.2012 3:06 PM

Policy

Did Police and Paramedics Conspire to Invent George Zimmerman's Injuries?

Jacob Sullum | 3.29.2012 12:53 PM

Policy

More on the Irrelevance of 'Stand Your Ground' to the Trayvon Martin Case

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2012 1:18 PM

Policy

ABC News: Lead Homicide Investigator Did Not Buy George Zimmerman's Story

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2012 7:20 PM

Policy

New Details About George Zimmerman's Account of His Fight With Trayvon Martin

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2012 11:06 AM

Policy

Paul Krugman: 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Increase Incarceration by Reducing It

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2012 1:59 PM

Policy

'Stand Your Ground' May Have Nothing to Do With the Trayvon Martin Case

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2012 12:28 PM

Policy

Was George Zimmerman the Aggressor?

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 12:19 PM

Policy

The New York Times on 'Stand Your Ground': Prosecutors Do Not Like a Law That Makes It Harder to Prosecute People

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 12:52 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Charles Nichols Challenges California's Open Carry Ban

Tim Cavanaugh and Zach Weissmueller | 3.19.2012 5:40 PM

Politics

California Convulses Over Dead Mountain Lion In Non-Bordering State

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.9.2012 7:59 PM

Politics

Maryland Handgun Permit Restrictions Found Unconstitutional by Federal Judge

Brian Doherty | 3.5.2012 3:23 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Adam Winkler on Racism, Ron Paul and the Battle over the Right to Bear Arms

Tracy Oppenheimer | 3.5.2012 12:53 PM

Politics

Obama the Gun Salesman

Brian Doherty | 2.23.2012 5:40 PM

Politics

NRACLU?

Fourth Amendment, meet Second

Damon Root | 2.20.2012 6:20 AM

Politics

Chuck Norris and R. Lee Ermey Team Up with the NRA

Nick Sibilla | 2.16.2012 2:44 PM

Politics

The Second Amendment Cases the Supreme Court Doesn't Want to Hear

Brian Doherty | 2.9.2012 8:18 PM

Politics

How Michael Bloomberg's Gun Control Campaign Could Hurt Obama's Reelection

Damon Root | 2.6.2012 5:15 PM

Politics

Ron Paul's Pahrump Security Volunteers

Garrett Quinn | 2.3.2012 8:57 PM

Policy

Cato Paper Shows How Guns Thwart Crimes and Save Lives

Jacob Sullum | 2.3.2012 1:22 PM

Politics

Libertarians, Guns, and Federalism

A reply to Richard Epstein's take on the right to keep and bear arms

Damon Root | 2.2.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Shopping for guns and votes in Tallahassee

Garrett Quinn | 1.28.2012 8:59 PM

Politics

Fourth Circuit Says Government Needs More Proof of Link Between Drug Use and Gun Violence

Brian Doherty | 1.24.2012 12:25 PM

Policy

Do We Need a Law to Make People Think?

Virginia's hypocrisy on gun rights versus abortion rights

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.24.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

This May Be the Only Time I've Rooted for the DEA

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2012 1:38 PM

Politics

Do Libertarians Care More about States' Rights or State Abuses of Power?

Damon Root | 1.9.2012 9:58 AM

Politics

Obama Ranks Third in ACLU Grades for Presidential Candidates

Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2012 9:22 PM

Civil Liberties

Should Gun Rights be Reciprocal Among States? Tenn. Women Arrested in NYC for Carrying Legal Gun at 9/11 Memorial

Nick Gillespie | 12.30.2011 9:34 AM

Politics

'Things Happened'

The year's highlights in shifting responsibility

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Wants to Recall Montana Legislators Who Voted for the Defense Bill [Updated]

Lucy Steigerwald | 12.27.2011 6:30 PM

Policy

NYT Scare Story About Carry Permit Holders Shows They Are Remarkably Law-Abiding

Jacob Sullum | 12.27.2011 4:00 PM

Policy

Controlling Guns, Controlling People

A new history shows how gun control goes hand in hand with fear of black people-and The People.

Thaddeus Russell | 12.21.2011 12:00 PM