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 raci...
government overreach, unconstitutional bans, and restrictive permitting laws that limit your right to self-protection. Inclusive of a Supreme Court case that opened the door to Second Amendment lawsuits against state governments and local municipalities, SAF has a trusted track record of success in ...
Signed into law days after the Supreme Court's Second Amendment decision, New York's new rules requires concealed carry applicants to demonstrate "good moral character" and bans firearms in some"sensitive" spaceslike places of worship, bars, and public parks. Six gun owners in New York and th...
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There is no gentle way to put it. On Monday, June 15, 2020, seven members of the United States Supreme Court ZuckerBoned the Second Amendment. We will probably never know why seven justices of the Supreme Court dropped to their knees like a two-dollar whore. But they did. ...
When it comes to the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court moves with the all the dispatch of a giant tortoise; slow, plodding and deliberate. After all, it took the High Court 217 years from the time the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791 to finally figure out in 2008 that its guarante...
the court said that for firearms laws to comply with the Second Amendment, the government must identify historical analogues that show the measure is consistent with the nation's history and tradition of firearms regulation.Tourists gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 7, 2024, in Was...
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 ...
There are approximately six weeks remaining in the current Supreme Court term. It is too late for any newly filed cert petitions to be granted by the end of June but there are still a handful of Second Amendment cert petitions pending which will very likely be either granted or denied by ...
to be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also affirmed previous rulings that the Second Amendment ensured the right of individuals to take part in the defending of their liberties by taking up arms in an organizedmilitia. However, the court was clear toemphasizethat an individual’s right to an...