2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (412+ words) Did Texas Democrat James Talarico just have his "Beto" moment? Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke famously declared that "hell yes" he was coming for AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles during his brief run for president in 2019. O'Rourke tried backing away from…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (338+ words) We've been waiting for years for something like Viramontes to come before the Supreme Court. While a few years ago, the outcome might have been more in doubt, the Supreme Court of today looks little like the one that decided…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (489+ words) The operative part of the Second Amendment is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Yet bearing arms — the act of actually carrying them on your person — is treated like a privilege in…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (332+ words) The amicus brief submitted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Viramontes case claims to be in support of neither the plaintiffs nor the defenders of "assault weapon" bans, which is an odd take considering what the…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (457+ words) The legality of so-called assault weapons is sitting in the scales of justice with the U.S. Supreme Court. An amicus shoots through the “dangerous and unusual” defense of bans. “This Court should not find the rifles at issue in this litigation…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (434+ words) The Supreme Court has received dozens of amicus briefs in support of the plaintiffs who are hoping to undo the bans on so-called assault weapons in Cook County, Illinois and the State of Connecticut, including one filed by the Department…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (730+ words) While the Bruen decision did leave the door open for some gun control laws, it's one thing about the decision that I don't like. I can live with it, because the door is only barely open, but it's still not…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (453+ words) There's one big problem with many Republicans, and that's how the only way they're better than Democrats on guns is that they don't inherently want every bit of gun control that comes down the line. They're open to talking, and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (527+ words) The Bruen decision may have made some things too muddy for some anti-gun activists — and by that, I mean they now have to actually show why a law is constitutional rather than just coast — but one thing was perfectly clear....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (410+ words) When Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the Bruen decision, he explicitly said that some places truly were sensitive enough to warrant preventing guns from being taken inside. Courthouses were one of the exceptions he named, and while I disagree about the…...