2nd Amendment

Civil Liberties

California Drops Anti-Gun Scheme

Even Golden State politicians don't have the ammo for this fight

Reason Staff | 8.16.2012 2:52 PM

Politics

An Ideological Test for Gun Ownership

The next logical step in the effort to keep dangerous people from buying firearms

Jacob Sullum | 8.8.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Reuters Cites Wisconsin's 'Permissive Gun Laws' in Connection With the Sikh Temple Massacre

Jacob Sullum | 8.6.2012 1:34 PM

Policy

The NRA: More on the Side of Guns Than of Liberty in a Tennessee State House Race

Brian Doherty | 8.2.2012 12:44 PM

Politics

A. Barton Hinkle on Liberals Using the Dick Cheney Playbook

Reason Staff | 8.1.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

The Atlantic's Andrew Cohen Wonders Why We Can't Ruin the Second Amendment Like We Ruined The Other Nine

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.26.2012 7:15 PM

Politics

Obama Still Thinks the Second Amendment Is About Hunting

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2012 12:42 PM

Policy

The Times on Guns: Still Tendentious, but Improving

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2012 4:24 PM

Politics

Outrage Is Not an Argument

Politicians should resist demands to do something about guns in response to the Aurora massacre.

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2012 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

J. Neil Schulman on How to Prevent Mass Shootings. And Joe Klein on What "Caused" Them!

Nick Gillespie | 7.24.2012 2:12 PM

Civil Liberties

Mayor Bloomberg Says Cops Should Go On Strike Until Americans Give Up Their Guns

Mike Riggs | 7.24.2012 11:03 AM

Politics

Batman Shooter: Tragedy Shouldn't Make Policy

Brian Doherty | 7.20.2012 11:31 AM

Policy

Brady Campaign's Response to Aurora Murders: Guns Bad

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2012 11:12 AM

Politics

Half-Assed Media Speculation About the Batman Shooter

News outlets are rushing to speculative judgment about the accused Batman murderer

Matt Welch | 7.20.2012 10:33 AM

Politics

Florida Judge Orders Release of Elderly Man Serving 20 Years for Firing Two Warning Shots

Mike Riggs | 7.3.2012 12:40 PM

Politics

Obama to Congress: Screw You, "Fast and Furious" is My Special Secret

Brian Doherty | 6.20.2012 12:41 PM

Politics

Will "Fast & Furious" Lead to Contempt Charges for Attorney General Holder?

Brian Doherty | 6.11.2012 4:40 PM

Politics

Let's Keep Guns Away from Possible Domestic Abuse Victims: The Latest in Memorial Legislation

Scott Shackford | 6.11.2012 2:17 PM

Policy

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

Matt Welch | 4.6.2012 5:05 PM

Politics

Illinois Upholds Public Carry Ban on Weapons

Brian Doherty | 4.2.2012 8:34 PM

Politics

Another Gun Rights Victory from Second Amendment Foundation

Brian Doherty | 3.29.2012 6:45 PM

Policy

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

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2012 1:18 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

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

Maryland Handgun Permit Restrictions Found Unconstitutional by Federal Judge

Brian Doherty | 3.5.2012 3:23 PM

Politics

Obama the Gun Salesman

Brian Doherty | 2.23.2012 5:40 PM

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

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

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

Get a Medical Marijuana Card, Lose Your Second Amendment Rights

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wants to prohibit patients from protecting themselves.

Brian Doherty | 12.16.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

NRA Joins ACLU in Urging SCOTUS to Let Victims of an Unconstitutional Gun Search Sue the Cops

Jacob Sullum | 12.7.2011 1:53 PM

Politics

Gun Rights Activists Claim Judicial Nominee's Scalp

Brian Doherty | 12.6.2011 5:18 PM

Politics

California's Assault Weapon Ban Challenged in Federal Court

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2011 4:49 PM

Politics

New York Times Logic: Someone in a Class Did Something Bad with a Gun. No One in that Class Should Have a Gun.

Brian Doherty | 11.15.2011 8:43 PM

Policy

Separation of Church and Second Amendment?

Seth McKelvey | 10.11.2011 10:15 AM

Policy

California Bans Open Carry of Guns

Zach Weissmueller | 10.10.2011 2:30 PM

Politics

Dueling Tests Yield Conflicting Conclusions About the District of Columbia's Gun Controls

Jacob Sullum | 10.5.2011 4:25 PM

Politics

Gun Owners of America Calls for Dissolution of ATF

Mike Riggs | 6.22.2011 5:52 PM

Policy

New Mexico High Court Rules Cops Can Seize Guns During Traffic Stops

Nick Gillespie | 6.1.2011 9:47 AM

Policy

NRA Claims Rand Paul's Gun Amendment Would Have Hurt Gun Owners More Than PATRIOT Act

Mike Riggs | 5.26.2011 10:46 PM

Politics

Illinois Gun-Carry Ban Challenged in Court

Brian Doherty | 5.13.2011 2:20 PM

Politics

The Legal Meaning of the Second Amendment Further Clarified in Nordyke v. King

Brian Doherty | 5.2.2011 11:47 PM

Politics

Obama's Gun Guru: A Profile of An Uncooperative, Ineffectual Policy Non-Entity

Brian Doherty | 4.12.2011 7:07 PM