Hunter Biden's Multiplying Charges Exemplify a Profound Threat to Trial by Jury
Prosecutors have enormous power to coerce guilty pleas, which are the basis for nearly all convictions.
Prosecutors have enormous power to coerce guilty pleas, which are the basis for nearly all convictions.
By banning firearms from a long list of "sensitive places," the state is copying a policy that federal judges have repeatedly rejected.
The 4th Circuit’s rejection of Maryland’s handgun licensing system suggests similar schemes in other states are unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court mulls how to apply a mandatory minimum for gun possession by people convicted of drug felonies.
Before buying a handgun, residents had to obtain a "qualification license," which could take up to 30 days.
Deja Taylor is going to federal prison because of a constitutionally dubious gun law that millions of cannabis consumers are violating right now.
The case highlights the broad reach of a federal law that bans firearm possession by people with nonviolent criminal records.
The Trump administration’s unilateral ban on bump stocks turned owners of those rifle accessories into felons.
Fifth Circuit judges slap the ATF for making up illegal rules against homemade guns.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar falsely claims a federal gun ban "requires individualized findings of dangerousness."
In an upcoming Supreme Court case, the Cato Institute argues that the "threadbare procedures" required by federal law provide inadequate protection for constitutional rights.
The law makes it a felony to possess a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, which covers the sidewalk in front of Gabriel Metcalf's house.
Criticism of the state’s "yellow flag" statute is doubly misguided.
The appeals court is reviewing an injunction by a judge who concluded that the law is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's Second Amendment precedents.
The decision is another rebuke to states that have imposed broad, location-specific limits on the right to bear arms.
The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom.
Before correcting the record, the former president's spokesman inadvertently implicated him in a federal crime.
"There is no American tradition of limiting ammunition capacity," U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez says, calling the state's cap "arbitrary," "capricious," and "extreme."
The collapse of his plea deal set up a clash with his father, who doggedly defends the firearm regulations his son violated.
Covering the many developments in 2022-23.
Special Counsel David Weiss will face a Second Amendment challenge if he prosecutes the president's son for illegally buying a firearm.
Violators are rarely caught, while the unlucky few who face prosecution can go to prison for years.
The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms.
The nature of their conduct is a better indicator of the punishment they deserve.
Plus: A listener question concerning drug decriminalization and social well-being
A federal judge objected to two aspects of the agreement that seemed designed to shield Biden from the possibility that his father will lose reelection next year.
A judge's questions about his plea deal should not obscure the point that the law he broke is unjust and arguably unconstitutional.
A federal judge says the ATF can’t arbitrarily classify inert objects as gun parts.
The government appears to agree that Charles Foehner shot a man in self-defense. He may spend decades behind bars anyway.
California’s governor insists his “28th Amendment” would leave the right to arms “intact.”
The decision highlights the injustice of a federal law that bans gun possession by broad categories of "prohibited persons."
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of Cody Wilson's ongoing lawsuit against the federal government.
As pot prohibition collapses across the country, that policy is increasingly untenable.
The state defied a Supreme Court ruling by banning guns from myriad "sensitive places."
U.S. District Judge Robert Payne concluded that 18-to-20-year-olds have the same Second Amendment rights as older adults.
Mass shooters typically do not have disqualifying records, and restrictions on private gun sales are widely flouted.
A preliminary injunction in Illinois may signal the demise of a long-running public policy fraud.
Once again, firearm-averse legislators chase after a restriction-averse public.
A federal lawsuit notes that the new law draws arbitrary distinctions and targets guns in common use for legal purposes.
A three-judge panel concludes that bump stocks cannot be considered machine gun parts under the rule of lenity.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.
The Biden administration is defending a federal law that disarms Americans based on "boilerplate language" in orders that judges routinely grant.
The 5th Circuit noted that such orders can be issued without any credible evidence of a threat to others.
Defending a categorical ban on gun possession by cannabis consumers, the Biden administration cites inapt "historical analogues."
The president wants to redefine federally licensed gun dealers in service of an ineffective anti-crime strategy.
Even as the president bemoans the injustice of pot prohibition, his administration insists that cannabis consumers have no right to arms.
Conservatives have been slow to recognize the threat that drug prohibition poses to gun rights and other civil liberties.
The president and his predecessor both tried to impose gun control by executive fiat.
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