Fairchild: You Think Gun Rights are Inalienable? Read the Heller Decision
Some wonder why lower courts have openly thumbed their noses at the Heller and McDonald decisions over the last decade. Scalia went out of his way to make clear that “nothing in our opinion should...
The Atlantic: NYSR&PA Supreme Court Case Will ‘Supersize the Second Amendment’
By LKB
Hot on the heels of Slate's breathless recognition that the Supreme Court's grant of cert in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association case may portend a major change in Second Amendment law, fellow liberal magazine The Altantic has...
Illinois George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin 2.0 Self-Defense Trial Underway
The first degree murder trial of James Love began Tuesday in Galesburg, IL. Love, a 59-year-old respected local farmer, claims he fired in self-defense. This, after a drunk, unarmed 19-year-old body-builder named Xavier Hartman...
BREAKING: Supreme Court Grants Cert to NY State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. City...
As we and others have frequently complained, the Supreme Court has been notably reluctant to take Second Amendment cases in recent years. That reluctance has let a number of lower court rulings that directly...
SCOTUS Declines to Hear Nevada Felon’s Gun Rights Case
Reader John Dingell III writes:
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Michaels v. Lynch, a class action lawsuit filed by Barry Michaels, a Nevada Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate seat...
Second Amendment Foundation Files for Supreme Court Review of CA ‘Unsafe Handgun Act’
In the crime-free, gun-controlled utopia of California, guns available for sale to civilians are subject to something called the Unsafe Handgun Act. The law mandates that guns sold there have three features: 1) a...
Firearms Policy Coalition Files Lawsuit Against Acting AG Whitaker Over Bump Stock Ban
When President Trump ordered the ATF to reverse its ruling on bump fire stocks and magically designate them as machine guns (yes, that would be funny if it weren't so arbitrary, ludicrous and dangerous),...
BREAKING: Firearms Policy Coalition, Others File Lawsuit to Block Trump Bump Stock Ban
Well that didn't take long. H/T to Adam Kraut for the heads up . . .
Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, attorneys for an owner of a “bump-stock” device and three...
Judge: Cops, School Had No Duty to Protect Parkland Students
Following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and the revelations of multiple failures on various levels on the part of those in positions of responsibility that day and in...
BREAKING: Supreme Court Grants Cert in Case That Could End Deference to Regulatory Agencies,...
By LKB
Sometimes, the biggest things the Supreme Court does can fly under the radar of just about everyone but the involved parties (and the law geeks). Today, the Supreme Court granted cert in a...
New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. City of New York Could Be...
Last month, the Supreme Court declined to review a Ninth Circuit ruling that upheld Sacramento's "may issue" concealed carry permitting process. The Ninth Circus had ruled that, that despite Heller and McDonald, there's no right...
A Mental Health Worker’s Perspective on Extreme Risk Protection or ‘Red Flag’ Orders
This article will, no doubt, upset many gun owners because it doesn't immediately come out against so-called extreme risk protection orders and similar laws. The reasons for this are twofold.
First, opinions of new laws...