1+ week, 3+ day ago   (322+ words) Illinois’ and Connecticut’s so-called “assault weapons” bans are contradicted by history and law, an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court Friday by Attorneys Kenneth T. Cuccinelli and Earl N. “Trey” Mayfield argued. The combined cases addressed in the brief…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (953+ words) Massachusetts cannot make a Second Amendment lawsuit disappear simply by issuing carry permits after it has already kept lawful citizens disarmed for months. That is the central takeaway from a federal judge’s refusal to dismiss the core claims in Lawson…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1238+ words) A long-haul truck driver is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Minnesota can shut off his right to bear arms the moment his rig crosses the state line—even though he holds valid carry permits from two other states....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1069+ words) The fight in Novotny v. Moore has moved to the next stage. Now the Supreme Court must decide whether Maryland’s sprawling “sensitive places” scheme deserves review, or whether the Fourth Circuit should be ordered to take another look after Wolford v....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (528+ words) Two Mexican nationals and a man from a small coastal town have been slammed by federal prosecutors in Oregon, and a fourth man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Medford, all on gun charges, perhaps sending two…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1121+ words) A federal judge has upheld Hawaii’s sweeping gun ban for adults under 21 by treating Founding-era restrictions on minors entering contracts as evidence of a historical tradition of denying them access to firearms. In a 43-page order, U.S. District Judge Jill…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (294+ words) A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s controversial gun-store monitoring law by a 2-1 margin. Dealers must also post a conspicuous warning: THESE PREMISES ARE UNDER VIDEO AND AUDIO SURVEILLANCE. YOUR IMAGE AND…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1061+ words) A new national firearms survey estimating that approximately 26 million Americans currently own AR-15-type or similarly styled semi-automatic rifles has already become evidence in the Supreme Court case that could decide whether state and local governments may continue banning America’s…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (944+ words) New Mexico’s seven-day gun-purchase waiting period has lost on the merits in federal court, but the state may continue enforcing the unconstitutional delay against nearly every gun buyer because the injunction protects only the two people who brought the lawsuit....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (780+ words) A new Supreme Court brief makes one of the strongest originalist arguments for protecting the AR-15: Its value as a militia arm is precisely why it falls within the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, the brief then undercuts its own argument by…...