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Annapolis stun gun ban challenged on Second Amendment grounds

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Taser International's X2 two-shot Taser for law enforcement is displayed at the National Shooting Sports Foundation's 34th annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas in 2012. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Hulbert v. Pantelides, filed Thursday in federal district court, claims that Annapolis's ban on stun guns violates the Second Amendment; I'm pleased to say that I'll be consulting a bit on this litigation. For more on recent developments in stun gun law, see this post; for more on the general Second Amendment issue, see this article and, of course, the Supreme Court's decision in Caetano v. Massachusetts.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.