Wayne LaPierre, an American gun rights lobbyist who has led the National Rifle Association (NRA), touted the Supreme Court ruling as a win for the politically influential gun lobby organization while lashing out at the Senate gun bill. "The decision comes at an important time -- as the Senat...
The justices reversed a ruling from the federal appeals court in New Orleans that had struck down the law.
Supreme Court's ruling on the state's gun laws and promise to ask lawmakers to craft new legislation in response. "New York's proper cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment ...
In their first guns case since last year’s expansion of gun rights, the justices suggested that they will reverse a ruling from an appeals court in New Orleans that struck down the 1994 ban on firearms for people under court order to stay away from their spouses or partners. Liberal and ...
The court on an 8-1 vote ruled in favor of the Biden administration, which was defending the law — one of several federal gun restrictions currently facing legal challenges. The ruling indicates that some longstanding gun laws are likely to survive despite the court's 2022 decision that expand...
Federal appeals courts have come to different decisions about whether the regulation defining a bump stock as a machine gun comports with federal law. The justices say they'll review the Biden administration’s appeal of a ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in ...
Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit hadput that ruling on holdwhile it considers the case. Challengers to the law had asked the high court to step in and allow Suddaby's ruling blocking parts of the law to go into effect while the case continues. It was that request the justices ...
The Supreme Court took up the case after lower federal courts delivered conflicting rulings on whether the ATF could ban bump stocks. The ban survived challenges before the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Denver-based 10th Circuit, and the federal circuit court in ...
criticized the Hawaiian court for its ruling, but said the high court was right to dismiss the challenge on technical grounds. However, he wrote that the court should hear an "appropriate case" to "make clear that Americans are always free to invoke the Second Amendment as a defense against...
For the first time in 70 years, the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to rule on the touchy subject of gun control. The court recently announced that it will hear an appeal from city officia...