Colorado Legislators Ditch Plan To Ban Guns in Dozens of 'Sensitive Places'
The amended bill applies only to schools, polling places, and certain government buildings.
The amended bill applies only to schools, polling places, and certain government buildings.
Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.
Hours before the president said "no one should be jailed" for marijuana use, his Justice Department was saying no one who uses marijuana should be allowed to own guns.
A federal judge ruled that three men who committed nonviolent felonies decades ago are entitled to buy, own, and possess guns.
Rejecting a challenge to the state's strict gun laws, the court is openly contemptuous of Second Amendment precedents.
The decision likens the federal law to Reconstruction era restrictions on firearms near polling places.
California made carry permits easier to obtain but nearly impossible to use.
The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.
After a federal judge deemed the state's location-specific gun bans unconstitutional, the 9th Circuit stayed his injunction.
The court upheld several other location-specific gun bans, along with the state's "good moral character" requirement for a carry permit.
By banning firearms from a long list of "sensitive places," the state is copying a policy that federal judges have repeatedly rejected.
Before buying a handgun, residents had to obtain a "qualification license," which could take up to 30 days.
The case highlights the broad reach of a federal law that bans firearm possession by people with nonviolent criminal records.
with implications for the pending Supreme Court case of United States v. Rahimi
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.
"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 Court should take care not to allow an exception to the right to bear arms swallow the rule
Reading the cited sources from Everytown's amicus brief
Debate from the National Constitution Center on the impending Supreme Court case
American and English historical precedents show a robust individual right