Two days earlier, the Supreme Court declared a broad right to carry firearms in public, which will be far more consequential for gun violence. The Supreme Court’s ruling coincided with a historic rise in firearms violence, including a mass elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas; a rac...
Carry on, Gun Owners: Second Amendment RulingsSINCE 2008 the Supreme Court has twice ruled that Americans have an individual right to possess...By DohertyBrian
issue in the legal battles have been on the books for years, but came under renewed scrutiny in the wake of theSupreme Court's June 2022 decisionthat imposed a new framework for evaluating the constitutionality of gun restrictions. In that ruling, the court said that for firearms laws to com...
This report discusses the reluctance by the Supreme Court to take cases involving the Second Amendment. Commentators have observed that the Court appears to have become "gun shy" regarding this issue, given that it has not taken up a Second Amendment case since its landmark rulings in District...
While the court fights in New Jersey and New York have involved new laws enacted in response to the Supreme Court's decision, the new legal test set forth by the high court puts federal laws that predated the ruling in jeopardy.
Conservatives should be grateful for the decisions being released by the Supreme Court this month. The opinions inBruen, inCarson v. Makin, and inDobbsare good not only for the traditional restoration of gun rights, religious liberty, and abortion laws, but for the courageous decision to roll ...
In response to the SCOTUS ruling that all public concealed carry is allowed under the Second Amendment, Governor Hochul has signed new legislation establishing 15 "Sensitive Locations" where concealed carry is not allowed. Here's where you can't bring a concealed firearm: ...
The Supreme Court's ruling in Heller, codifying an individual's fundamental right to own a gun for the purpose of self-defense through a peculiar interpretation of the meaning of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, and in McDonald v. City of Chicago, incorporating Heller's...
Thus, virtually the entire panoply of questions about what restrictions on the exercise of the Amendment’s guaranteed right would be considered constitutionally “reasonable” remains judicially unanswered. Second, as an entity of government, once the Supreme Court renders a decision on a question, ...
A U.S. District Judge in San Diego who has issued rulings in two separate lawsuits challenging California’s strict gun control measures will take up another weapons-related case on Monday, sparking criticism from gun-control groups who pro-gun advocates