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Fifth Circuit Hands Anti-Gun New Jersey Attorney General a Defeat on 3D Gun File Regulation

March 6, 2025August 20, 2020 by TTAG Contributor

By LKB Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered a bench slap to hoplophobic New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and his campaign to shut down Austin-based Defense Distributed‘s distribution of design files for 3D printed firearms. To understand what this means, a little history is helpful . . . In … Read more

Maryland’s “May Issue” Gun Regulations Under the Gun

July 30, 2010 by Robert Farago

“We have reviewed Maryland gun laws and concluded none of them are so stringent as to violate the Second Amendment.” Say sayeth Raquel Guillory, PR flack for Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler. Under Maryland law, a resident may receive a handgun permit if he or she “Has, based on the results of investigation, a good and substantial reason to carry a handgun, including a finding that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger.” That’s not good enough for the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), who’ve filed a lawsuit against MD and its licensing officers for denying Raymond Woollard a handgun permit. The citizen journalists at examiner.com provide the 411 on Mr. Woollard’s case . . .

SAF Sues Westchester (NY) Over “May Issue” Concealed Carry

July 17, 2010 by Robert Farago

Alan Gura is at it again. The lawyer who helped win the Heller and McDonald cases in the U.S. Supreme Court—striking down handgun bans in both cities—has filed a federal lawsuit against Westchester County, New York and handgun permit licensing officers Susan Cacace and Jeffrey Cohen. Gura’s Second Amendment Foundation is seeking a permanent injunction against New York Penal Code § 400.00. The law stipulates that handgun carry permit applicants must “demonstrate good cause for the issuance of a permit.” Apparently, the applicant’s desire to defend their lives didn’t cut the metaphorical mustard. More specifically . . .

Supreme Court Transcripts: Oral Arguments in McDonald v. City of Chicago Gun Ban Case

February 2, 2025March 3, 2010 by Robert Farago

Download the pdf here. The plaintiffs’ (opposing the ban) based their opening salvo on the 14th amendment. (You might say they played the race card, but I couldn’t possibly comment.) “In 1868, our nation made a promise to the McDonald family that they and their descendants would henceforth be American citizens, and with American citizenship came the guarantee enshrined in our Constitution that no State could make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of American citizenship. The rights so guaranteed were not trivial. The Civil War was not fought because States were attacking people on the high seas or blocking access to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The rights secured by the Fourteenth Amendment were understood to include the fundamental rights honored by any free government and the personal guarantees of the –” And that’s it. Chief Justice Roberts cuts Alan Gura short with the usual argy-bargy about states’ rights. And then the lawyer gives freshly-minted Supreme Sotomayor a bitch slapping. So to speak . . .

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