The state's ban on "large-capacity magazines" is easy to justify, as long as you assume its benefits and ignore its costs.
The DIY firearms movement specifically evolved to put personal armaments beyond the reach of the government.
The policies he favors would arbitrarily limit Second Amendment rights and threaten the industry that makes it possible to exercise them.
Sheila Jackson Lee's sweeping licensing and registration scheme suggests what Democrats would do if they didn't have to worry about the Second Amendment.
There's a silver lining to partisan demagogues taking up peaceful entrepreneurship.
A challenge to the federal ban on gun possession by people convicted of felonies gives SCOTUS a chance to rectify its neglect of the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment Foundation files a flurry of lawsuits in November, with three aiming at laws restricting public carry.
The senators warned that the Court might have to be "restructured" if it did not reach the conclusion they preferred in a Second Amendment case.
Democrats and Republicans agree on that point, although they disagree about what it means in practice.
The senator thinks people with felony records should lose the right to armed self-defense but not the right to cast a ballot.
If that standard were applied to other constitutional rights, no one would be left to enforce them.
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The Texas senator notes the opposing party's blind spots on freedom of speech and the right to arms.
Heavy-handed police raids are trampling on the basic rights of all Americans.
The 7th Circuit judge’s track record suggests she would frequently be a friend of civil liberties.
The SCOTUS contender's 2019 dissent will alarm gun control supporters but reassure people who want judges to take this constitutional provision as seriously as others.
The 5th Circuit judge is a mixed bag from a libertarian perspective.
Why do progressives who worry about unequal justice support policies that are bound to make that problem worse?
Last month, the 9th Circuit said the opposite. It's a question the Supreme Court might have to resolve.
Millions of new firearm owners who have lost faith in cops and government will be a tough audience for shopworn gun control schemes.
The new law features harsher penalties, 12-hour detentions, and other invitations to abuse government power
When they do specify "common sense" gun reforms, the proposals would do little to stop gun violence.
The Democratic presidential candidate favors the same magazine limit that a federal appeals court just declared unconstitutional.
The overturned law would have required confiscating all magazines holding more than 10 rounds in California.
Despite an alarming increase in crime, Illinois is illegally delaying gun licenses.
David Lacey faces three misdemeanor assault charges that hinge on whether he reasonably believed he and his wife were in danger.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey's justification for brandishing their guns depends on facts, not ideology.
An encounter between militias in Louisville shows the enduring practical and symbolic importance of the right to armed self-defense.
"The fundamental protections set forth in our Constitution," Thomas writes, should be "applied equally to all citizens."
For those who have been advising Americans for years that we should lay down our own weapons and trust armed government employees, this year has been a massive reality check.
The state boasts of blocking 754 illegal purchases, but it wrongly tagged 101,047 law-abiding people as prohibited. Any of them could have been targeted.
Gun opponents would leave predatory cops armed and their victims helpless.
The state has already appealed the decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Court decided that New York City's revision of its restrictions on transporting guns gave the plaintiffs what they sought.
Power-seeking public officials thrive on our fear.
Politicians and the public are alarmingly willing to violate civil liberties in the name of fighting the epidemic.
The county's ban on firearm sales is inconsistent with a new federal advisory as well as the Second Amendment.
Or is the Second Amendment suspended for the duration of the epidemic?
The presidential contender has trouble explaining why the guns he wants to ban fall outside the Second Amendment.
When it comes to guns, pretty much nothing is legal in New Jersey, according to their police.
A bizarre Florida “red flag” case shows the importance of safeguards that protect people’s Second Amendment rights.
The presidential candidate’s gun control platform, like his defense of "stop and frisk," sacrifices civil liberties on the altar of public safety.
Legislators who approved a bunch of other gun control bills could not agree on what features make a firearm intolerable.
In Broward County, judges almost never reject police petitions for gun confiscation orders.
Such inflammatory exaggeration seems designed to avoid a substantive discussion of the presidential candidate's gun control proposals.
The bill's requirements for "emergency" orders are loose, and it does not give respondents a right to a court-appointed lawyer.
Erroneous predictions of violence at the Richmond rally conflated civil libertarians with militant racists.