New Article: The General Law Right to Bear Arms
with implications for the pending Supreme Court case of United States v. Rahimi
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.
It's unlikely to stop would-be shooters, but it certainly would allow more innocent people to be locked up with little recourse.
Amicus brief in Supreme Court's Second Amendment Rahimi case
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 governor's attempt to rule by decree provoked widespread condemnation instead of the applause she was expecting.
The collapse of his plea deal set up a clash with his father, who doggedly defends the firearm regulations his son violated.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham thinks violent crime gives her a license to rule by decree.
Local police officials are leery of enforcing Michelle Lujan Grisham's ban on public carry, which gun rights groups have challenged in federal court.
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 plaintiffs in VanDerStok think that BATF's 2022 regulations defining certain gun-making kits as legally the same as guns overreached its constitutional authority.
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 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.
Researchers report that many gun owners, especially newer ones, falsely deny owning guns.
Now both a violent and nonviolent felon have been found by lower courts to have a Second Amendment right to own weapons. The Supreme Court will likely consider the issue in the near future.
The government appears to agree that Charles Foehner shot a man in self-defense. He may spend decades behind bars anyway.
The man behind 3D-printed guns talks about beating the ATF, his abiding interest in cyberpunk culture, and what comes next for "practical anarchy."
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."
As pot prohibition collapses across the country, that policy is increasingly untenable.
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Building on what had come before, the Madison-Monroe research program led the way to the many innovations of the 19th century
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.
Conservatives who support the bill recognize the conflict between unannounced home invasions and the Second Amendment.
A preliminary injunction in Illinois may signal the demise of a long-running public policy fraud.
A federal lawsuit notes that the new law draws arbitrary distinctions and targets guns in common use for legal purposes.
Bullet speed matters, but so does bullet weight
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.
No, and that good news needs to be front and center in all discussions of gun control, especially after school shootings.
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.
New study sees Chicago harassing and arresting people for paperwork violations, damaging their ability to live and work, without demonstrable effect on gun violence
Defending a categorical ban on gun possession by cannabis consumers, the Biden administration cites inapt "historical analogues."
A new Netflix documentary shows how the seeds of political polarization that roil our culture today were planted at Waco.
The president wants to redefine federally licensed gun dealers in service of an ineffective anti-crime strategy.
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