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 be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws … Read more

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 gotten into the act. Echoing many of the legal points and vote-counting predictions that I have made on the NYSR&P case, liberal … Read more