1. Who is (and isn’t) allowed to have guns in California? The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides you with the right to bear arms. Further, California gun laws allow most adults age 21 and older to: buy, own, and possess a gun. California laws, though, provide...
"Taken together, these laws represent a sea change in Michigan's gun safety regime," said Ryan Bates, the executive director of End Gun Violence Michigan. "We've gone from being a laggard having not passed a gun safety law in 40 years to being a national leader." Bates tells CBS News ...
Already, some gun laws passed in the wake of the Supreme Court decision have been shot down. A judge declared multiple portions of New York’s new gun law unconstitutional, including rules that restrict carrying firearms in public parks and places of worship. An appeals court later put that ...
End Gun Violence Michigan, a group that formed earlier this year to demand changes to Michigan's gun safety laws, made a last-ditch effort to appeal to lawmakers in lansing at a press conference near the Capitol Wednesday, April 13, where organizers pleaded for "sensible reforms" to the sta...
The 2022 law was passed after a series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at aelementary school. The measure was a compromise that also included steps to keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help...
State gun laws passed by the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature have generally expanded the right of gun owners to carry their weapons in public places and buildings. Here are some of those laws: Guns at Schools:In 2023, a law took effectrequiring every public s...
Here’s what to know about what is being considered in Congress and where it stands. Closing loopholes A House-passed bill,HR 1446, backed by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, would close what’s known as the “Charleston loophole,” which allows some licensed gun sales to go...
which laid out a novel historical-tradition test that gun control laws must pass. Roberts’ opinion makes clear thatBruen’s originalism is not so strict as to force an exact analogue from early America to present-day laws,Josh Gerstein reports. The law cannot be “trapped in amber,” ...
217-213. Each race is important in determining which party controls the House. There are nine races in North Texas that could impact this calculation and determine what gun laws have a chance of passing. The Republicans’ 2024 platform defends “the right to keep and bear arms.” The ...
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