Gun Rights

Politics

Does the Second Amendment Apply in Chicago?

Understanding the stakes in the Supreme Court's next gun rights case

Damon Root | 12.15.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Damon Root on the Chicago Gun Case

Reason Staff | 12.10.2009 4:00 PM

Politics

Killing Slaughterhouse

Understanding the controversial 1873 decision at the center of the Supreme Court's upcoming gun rights fight

Brian Doherty | 12.2.2009 4:00 PM

Politics

How Can You Lose Your Second Amendment Rights?

Jacob Sullum | 11.25.2009 3:51 PM

Politics

Gun Control, Chicago-Style

The shameless hypocrisy of Windy City politicians

Steve Chapman | 11.23.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

How Could He Have Strangled Her Without a Permit to Carry a Handgun?

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2009 12:38 PM

Politics

Will the Supreme Court Restore the Privileges or Immunities Clause?

Damon Root | 11.17.2009 10:08 AM

Politics

Take the 10th--Please!

Brian Doherty | 11.13.2009 10:16 PM

Policy

Hasan Had a Carry Permit (and Other Irrelevancies)

Jacob Sullum | 11.13.2009 2:31 PM

Policy

The Folly of Unilateral Disarmament

At Fort Hood "more guns" assuredly were "the solution to gun violence."

Jacob Sullum | 11.11.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Second Amendment Rights and the Election

Damon Root | 11.4.2009 11:43 AM

Politics

"This is no time for the court to start picking and choosing when it comes to the Bill of Rights."

Damon Root | 10.7.2009 12:45 PM

Politics

From Guns to Butter

How a Second Amendment case can help restore economic liberty

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Why Skydivers Would Be Better Off Without Parachutes

Jacob Sullum | 10.5.2009 6:13 PM

Politics

The Supreme Court Takes on Guns, Again

Heller lawyer Alan Gura revived the Second Amendment. Can he do the same for the 14th?

Brian Doherty | 10.1.2009 5:30 PM

Politics

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Second Amendment Applies to States

Brian Doherty | 9.30.2009 11:44 AM

Politics

Court Victory Against Police Immunity in an Open-Carry Case

Brian Doherty | 9.16.2009 12:53 PM

Politics

Baffled and Battered MSM Rallies Around…Richard Hofstadter

Matt Welch | 9.9.2009 9:11 AM

Politics

Did William Kostric Threaten Libertarianism With That Gun?

Matt Welch | 9.4.2009 10:10 AM

Politics

The Jackboot Only Fits if You Don't Work for the Government

Matt Welch | 8.20.2009 10:24 AM

Policy

Well, His Shirt Was White…

Jesse Walker | 8.20.2009 10:17 AM

Politics

Chicago: The Second Amendment Doesn't Apply Here

Damon Root | 8.7.2009 2:49 PM

Politics

'Mayor Bloomberg Is Driven Crazy by My Flintlock Gun'

Jacob Sullum | 7.29.2009 3:40 PM

Politics

Also, I Know Some Police Officers Who Carry Guns

Jacob Sullum | 7.14.2009 6:40 PM

Politics

Sotomayor on Second Amendment Incorporation

Damon Root | 7.14.2009 10:46 AM

Politics

Sotomayor Shocker: She's Not Too Big on the Second Amendment

Brian Doherty | 7.14.2009 9:51 AM

Politics

Alan Gura: "Heller and the Triumph of Originalist Judicial Engagement"

Damon Root | 7.9.2009 4:49 PM

Politics

Heller Ain't No Bad Place to Be

Second Amendment hero Alan Gura continues the legal fight for gun rights

Brian Doherty | 7.2.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

"An angry ex-girlfriend or wife is the best person in the world, the greatest source of information": ATF Agent on "hunt for guns, one house at a time"

Nick Gillespie | 7.1.2009 5:03 PM

Politics

D.C. Continues Its Slow Retreat in its War on Guns

Brian Doherty | 6.22.2009 11:26 AM

Politics

The Breakdown of Nations

Jesse Walker | 6.18.2009 10:57 AM

Politics

Is Sotomayor Anti-Gun?

When it comes to the Second Amendment, Obama's Supreme Court nominee practices judicial restraint, not judicial activism.

Steve Chapman | 6.18.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Guns in Unincorporated Territory

Does a recent decision show Sonia Sotomayor hates the Second Amendment?

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Drug Control Begets Gun Control

The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms.

Jacob Sullum | 6.16.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

The Second Amendment and the States

Why the Supreme Court should strike down Chicago's handgun ban

Damon Root | 6.11.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

Her Overwhelming Priority is Voting Rights, Except When It's Not

Bill Flanigen | 6.10.2009 5:30 PM

Politics

Second Amendment Might Be Back on Its Way to Supreme Court

Brian Doherty | 6.10.2009 3:17 PM

Policy

There's Nothing New Under the Gun

Bill Flanigen | 6.9.2009 6:52 PM

Politics

Republicans Acknowledge the Undeniable Appeal of Gays with Guns

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.9.2009 3:01 PM

Policy

Well, We'll Ask the Lord to Forgive Us All of Our Sins/And We'll Look at the Latest in Gold-Plated Firing Pins

Jesse Walker | 6.5.2009 9:23 AM

Politics

Seventh Circuit: The Second Amendment Does Not Apply Against the States

Damon Root | 6.2.2009 2:49 PM

Politics

Sonia Sotomayor on Gun Rights and Racial Preferences

Why libertarians-and everyone who believes in limited government-should worry about Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee

Damon Root | 5.26.2009 6:00 PM

Politics

The Democratic Party: NRA Pawns?

Brian Doherty | 5.26.2009 4:43 PM

Policy

Penn and Teller Get Gun Controlled

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.26.2009 3:14 PM

Policy

Memorial Day B-List

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.25.2009 6:21 PM

Politics

Guns: As American As Decrying Liberal Elites

Brian Doherty | 5.11.2009 2:50 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Floods, Guns, Antitrust, and an Indecisive Orangutan

Jesse Walker | 5.11.2009 8:14 AM

Politics

The History of Heller

Brian Doherty | 5.6.2009 2:32 PM