A Conservative Giant Just Gave the Supreme Court Reason to Uphold Youth Gun Bans
55 years, 2 months ago

A Conservative Giant Just Gave the Supreme Court Reason to Uphold Youth Gun Bans

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. SCOTUS has instructed lower courts to uphold firearm regulations that comport with the nation’s “history and tradition.” And in 1791, when the Second Amendment was ratified, people under age 21 were considered legal minors with virtually no rights themselves, including the right to buy or possess weapons without their parents’ consent. “The Founders’ generation shared the view,” Pryor wrote, “that minors lacked the reason and judgment necessary to be trusted with legal rights,” quoting Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. So Florida’s law, and others like it, are “consistent with our historical tradition of firearm regulation.” But what about mandatory militia service for those under 21? But as Pryor explained, “the federal right to keep and bear arms” does not turn on “a sliding scale defined by contemporary state law that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.” A state does not “lose its constitutional authority to regulate minors’ access to firearms” just because it gives 18-year-olds “greater rights than they would have enjoyed at the Founding.” To hold otherwise would mean importing into the Second Amendment “an evolving standard of adulthood that is divorced from the text of the Amendment and from our regulatory tradition.” It is hard to overstate the significance of these words coming from the pen of a deeply conservative, dyed-in-the-wool Federalist Society stalwart like Pryor.

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The 5th Circuit’s Ruling Striking Down Youth Handgun Ban Is Utter Madness
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The 5th Circuit’s Ruling Striking Down Youth Handgun Ban Is Utter Madness

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Any gun regulation, the court noted, quoting from a 2024 Supreme Court decision, that “goes ‘beyond what was done at the founding’ ” is unconstitutional “ ‘even when regulates arms-bearing for a permissible reason.’ ” Following that logic, the …

Trump-Appointed Judge Deals Major Blow To Gun Reform
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump-Appointed Judge Deals Major Blow To Gun Reform

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A federal judge overturned an Illinois assault weapons ban Friday, contending that the law enacted in response to the 2022 mass shooting at a Highland Park parade violated the Second Amendment in its entirety. The 168-page ruling, by Donald Trump-appointee Stephen McGlynn, deals a sharp blow to reformers and marks the latest major court ruling to expand …

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect

Live Mint  

DENVER — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Colorado law raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 can take effect while the legal battle over it continues. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said that lawyers for one of the young men who challenged the law with a gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun …

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect

Associated Press  

DENVER — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Colorado law raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 can take effect while the legal battle over it continues. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said that lawyers for one of the young men who challenged the law with a gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun …

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A federal appeals court ruled …

Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to state assault weapons ban
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to state assault weapons ban

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden. The moves came after the justices upheld a gun law intended to protect victims …

Supreme Court turns down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state bans on assault weapons
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court turns down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state bans on assault weapons

LA Times  

Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento. The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state laws in Illinois that prohibited the sale of rapid-fire assault weapons. “For now at least, the 2nd Amendment is a second-class right, and it will remain so until the Supreme …

The Supreme Court’s Major Gun Decision Was A Warning To Extremist Judges
9 months ago

The Supreme Court’s Major Gun Decision Was A Warning To Extremist Judges

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to uphold a 30-year-old law barring domestic abusers from possessing guns came as no surprise. Bill Clark via Getty Images The ruling marked the first time the Supreme Court has offered its take on gun rights since Justice Clarence Thomas penned a sweeping reinterpretation of the Second Amendment two years ago, in …

Will latest Supreme Court decision affect California bans on assault weapons, magazines?
9 months ago

Will latest Supreme Court decision affect California bans on assault weapons, magazines?

LA Times  

Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento in 2012. A long-awaited U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a federal law barring domestic abusers from possessing firearms will have a narrower impact than some had hoped, but it will nonetheless play an important role in reshaping gun laws in California and across …

In the Supreme Court’s Rahimi decision, the conservative majority tries to gloss over its bonkers second amendment record.
9 months ago

In the Supreme Court’s Rahimi decision, the conservative majority tries to gloss over its bonkers second amendment record.

Slate  

Another major case for the “not a loss/not exactly a win” pile this term at SCOTUS. A majority of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority said what we knew all along - adjudicated domestic abusers shouldn’t hold onto second amendment rights and the guns that they are statistically, horrifyingly, apt to use to harm their intimate partners. In an 8-1 decision …

Experts reveal surprising beneficiary of Supreme Court's gun violence decision
9 months ago

Experts reveal surprising beneficiary of Supreme Court's gun violence decision

Raw Story  

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that protective orders can keep guns out of the hands of people accused of domestic violence, and at least one expert feels that could help a major figure in a separate case — Hunter Biden. “Since the Founding, the Nation’s firearm laws have included regulations to stop individuals who threaten physical harm to others …

The Group Helping the Supreme Court Rewrite America’s Gun Laws Is Worse Than the NRA
9 months, 1 week ago

The Group Helping the Supreme Court Rewrite America’s Gun Laws Is Worse Than the NRA

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Mark Joseph Stern: This idea that ATF said bump stocks were 100 percent legal, then turned around in response to political pressure and said they were unlawful all along—that’s a misrepresentation of history. It’s absurd to have the Supreme Court putting all this …

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight
9 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation’s political spotlight. The high court’s conservative majority found that the Trump administration overstepped when it changed course from predecessors and banned …

Supreme Court to hear challenge to bump stock ban in high court's latest gun case
1 year, 1 month ago

Supreme Court to hear challenge to bump stock ban in high court's latest gun case

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A Texas gun shop owner argues the Trump administration …

Another State’s High Court Just Told the U.S. Supreme Court: Enough With the Gun Craziness
1 year, 1 month ago

Another State’s High Court Just Told the U.S. Supreme Court: Enough With the Gun Craziness

Slate  

The U.S. Supreme Court’s acute hostility toward gun safety laws faced more criticism from within the judiciary on Wednesday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court sharply criticized recent precedents expanding the right to bear arms. Enough with the gun craziness.” Mark Joseph Stern: This is yet another lower court looking at the decision in Bruen, raising its eyebrows, and saying, “Are …

How the Supreme Court’s Conservatives Can Solve Their Guns Dilemma Without Losing Face
1 year, 3 months ago

How the Supreme Court’s Conservatives Can Solve Their Guns Dilemma Without Losing Face

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. Related From Slate The Supreme Court’s Big Gun Case Was Humiliating for the Justices The other problem with the hyperliteralist approach to applying Bruen evidenced in both the California case and Rahimi is the failure to comprehend the role that common-law methods of …

Opinion: The Supreme Court may make America’s gun violence problem even worse
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: The Supreme Court may make America’s gun violence problem even worse

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Shannon Watts, who founded the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, is the author of “Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World.” The opinions in this commentary are her own. It’s also a clear sign that the gun safety movement needs to …

US Supreme Court reinstates ‘ghost gun’ rule struck down by lower court
1 year, 7 months ago

US Supreme Court reinstates ‘ghost gun’ rule struck down by lower court

Al Jazeera  

US Department of Justice says more than 19,000 firearms without serial numbers were seized in crime probes in 2021. The US Supreme Court has temporarily reinstated a rule cracking down on the proliferation of firearms without serial numbers, known as “ghost guns”, reversing a ruling by a lower court. In a narrow 5-4 decision on Tuesday, the nation’s highest judicial …

Column: We marked the Fourth of July in an exceptionally American way: with a hail of gun violence
1 year, 8 months ago

Column: We marked the Fourth of July in an exceptionally American way: with a hail of gun violence

LA Times  

Mementos and candles are seen at a memorial for a victim of a fatal July 3 mass shooting in Philadelphia. “Americans choose differently.” In fact, Americans do not choose differently: Eight out of 10 registered voters, including most Republicans, want criminal background and mental health checks for all gun buyers; a minimum age of 21 and a 30-day waiting period …

The Supreme Court will decide if some judges have gone too far in striking down gun restrictions
1 year, 8 months ago

The Supreme Court will decide if some judges have gone too far in striking down gun restrictions

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A year after its sweeping gun rights ruling, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether judges are going too far in striking down restrictions on firearms. The justices will hear the Biden administration’s appeal of one such ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a federal law meant to keep guns away from people who have domestic violence …

Is the Supreme Court Ready to Walk Back Last Term’s Historically Awful Guns Ruling?
1 year, 9 months ago

Is the Supreme Court Ready to Walk Back Last Term’s Historically Awful Guns Ruling?

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Judging from lower court decisions, under Bruen nearly every law restricting firearms is now vulnerable to constitutional challenge—including laws the Supreme Court indicated were constitutional and those that, prior to Bruen, courts declared valid. But Bruen announced a new standard for judicial review …

Progressive Judges May Have Found a Use for Clarence Thomas’ Terrible Guns Ruling
1 year, 9 months ago

Progressive Judges May Have Found a Use for Clarence Thomas’ Terrible Guns Ruling

Slate  

This piece is a part of Opinionpalooza! Like other courts, it did so because the Supreme Court seemingly confirmed the statute’s constitutionality in 2008’s D.C. v. Heller, which stated that “nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons.” Clarity and consistency, however, are not strengths of the Supreme …

US appeals court says people convicted of nonviolent offenses shouldn’t face lifetime gun ban
1 year, 9 months ago

US appeals court says people convicted of nonviolent offenses shouldn’t face lifetime gun ban

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — A U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday that nonviolent offenders should not be subject to lifetime gun bans, the latest fallout from a recent Supreme Court decision that instructs judges to look to history and tradition to weigh the constitutionality of gun control laws. “Range remains one of ‘the people’ protected by the Second Amendment, and his eligibility to …

Explained: The US judge's ruling on age limits for gun buyers
1 year, 10 months ago

Explained: The US judge's ruling on age limits for gun buyers

Firstpost  

A US judge’s ruling striking down a federal law that bans licenced federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is the latest example of how a landmark Supreme Court decision is transforming the legal landscape around firearms. Governments that want to uphold a gun restriction must point to similar restrictions from history to show that the …

What to know about judge’s ruling on age limit for young gun buyers
1 year, 10 months ago

What to know about judge’s ruling on age limit for young gun buyers

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — A U.S. judge’s ruling striking down a federal law that bans licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is the latest example of how a landmark Supreme Court decision is transforming the legal landscape around firearms. The judge cited the Supreme Court’s June decision in a case called Bruen, which changed the …

Banning gun sales to young American adults under 21 is unconstitutional, judge rules
1 year, 10 months ago

Banning gun sales to young American adults under 21 is unconstitutional, judge rules

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a law banning licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 violates the Second Amendment and is unconstitutional. Payne’s ruling is the latest decision striking down gun laws in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year that changed the test courts have …

Turmoil In Courts On Gun Laws In Wake Of Justices' Ruling
2 years, 1 month ago

Turmoil In Courts On Gun Laws In Wake Of Justices' Ruling

Huff Post  

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Jan. 20, 2023, in Washington. A landmark Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is dismantling gun law across the country, dividing judges and sowing confusion over what firearm restrictions can remain on the books. Experts say the high court’s ruling that outlined a new test for evaluating gun laws left …

Turmoil in courts on gun laws in wake of justices’ ruling
2 years, 1 month ago

Turmoil in courts on gun laws in wake of justices’ ruling

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is upending gun laws across the country, dividing judges and sowing confusion over what firearm restrictions can remain on the books. Under the Supreme Court’s new test, the government that wants to uphold a gun restriction must look back into history to show it is consistent with the …

Supreme Court rejects bump stock ban cases
2 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court rejects bump stock ban cases

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t take up two cases that involved challenges to a ban enacted during the Trump administration on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. The cases the justices declined to hear were an appeal from a Utah gun rights advocate and another brought by …

After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws
2 years, 7 months ago

After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits. “The gun rights movement has been given a weapon of mass destruction, and it will annihilate approximately 75% of the gun laws eventually,” said Evan Nappen, a New …

After Supreme Court ruling, it's open season on US gun laws
2 years, 7 months ago

After Supreme Court ruling, it's open season on US gun laws

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Supreme Court ruling expanding …

Commentary: Reagan embraced gun control in response to political extremism. This Supreme Court didn’t
2 years, 8 months ago

Commentary: Reagan embraced gun control in response to political extremism. This Supreme Court didn’t

LA Times  

Fifty-five years before the Supreme Court’s conservative majority made it easier for people to carry guns in public, a Republican governor in California signed a law making it harder to do exactly that. Opinion Editorial: California gun laws under threat by right-wing Supreme Court The decision striking down a New York law that restricts who can carry a concealed handgun …

Abortion, guns, police immunity and religion in schools: The Supreme Court’s dramatic streak of rulings
2 years, 8 months ago

Abortion, guns, police immunity and religion in schools: The Supreme Court’s dramatic streak of rulings

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Donald Trump’s three appointments – Amy Coney Barrett, …

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?
2 years, 9 months ago

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade. In its decision, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s “proper cause” requirement, but other states’ laws are expected to face quick challenges. States can still require people to get a license to carry a gun, Kavanaugh wrote, and condition that license on …

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?
2 years, 9 months ago

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In its decision, the Supreme Court struck down New …

Supreme Court expands gun rights, with nation divided
2 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court expands gun rights, with nation divided

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In a major expansion of gun rights after a series of mass shootings, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, a ruling likely to lead to more people legally armed. Alito wrote that the court had decided “nothing about who may lawfully possess a firearm or the requirements …

Supreme Court strikes New York gun law, expanding gun rights
2 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court strikes New York gun law, expanding gun rights

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry guns in public, a major expansion of gun rights. The justices’ 6-3 decision follows a series of recent mass shootings and is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Los Angeles and Boston …

'Devastating': Supreme Court blows massive hole in state gun control efforts
2 years, 9 months ago

'Devastating': Supreme Court blows massive hole in state gun control efforts

Raw Story  

In a decision with sweeping and grave implications for gun control laws across the country, the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down New York state's restrictions on the concealed carry of firearms in public. Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern warned that the high court's 6-3 decision—penned by Justice Clarence Thomas—"goes so, so far beyond concealed carry." The …

Supreme Court rushes to end a term like no other
2 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court rushes to end a term like no other

CNN  

CNN — Because of a blockbuster docket, an unprecedented leak, a fraught political atmosphere and Covid, everything has changed at the Supreme Court. Here are the highlights of the court’s docket: Abortion It was Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice on the current court, who likely assigned fellow conservative Justice Samuel Alito to write the draft majority opinion in …

Column: Trump’s judges will keep moving the country to the far right for decades
2 years, 9 months ago

Column: Trump’s judges will keep moving the country to the far right for decades

LA Times  

Then-President Trump with Amy Coney Barrett, his third and final Supreme Court appointee, who gave the court a potent 6-3 conservative majority. “Trump ran on changing the judiciary as a political point,” says Shira A. Scheindlin, a former federal judge in New York who is co-chair of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. I will appoint judges who …

U.S. gun laws are getting looser, not stronger, despite more mass shootings
2 years, 10 months ago

U.S. gun laws are getting looser, not stronger, despite more mass shootings

LA Times  

A girl is comforted outside the Sgt. “Any day now the Supreme Court could hand down its decision in the New York concealed-carry case and make it much harder for states like California to regulate guns in the name of public safety,” said Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor. Miller said that the “trend line is definitely ever more expansive …

Column: Buffalo, Laguna Woods and the Supreme Court’s radical revision of U.S. history
2 years, 10 months ago

Column: Buffalo, Laguna Woods and the Supreme Court’s radical revision of U.S. history

LA Times  

Last weekend, shootings afflicted eight cities including Laguna Woods, injuring 65 people and killing 17, among them the 10 innocents at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y. Talk about a sad coincidence. Last weekend, mass shootings afflicted eight cities including Laguna Woods, injuring 65 people and killing 17, among them the 10 innocents in Buffalo. “Today we reaffirm that our …

Op-Ed: How the Supreme Court's conservatives will change your rights
3 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: How the Supreme Court's conservatives will change your rights

LA Times  

The Supreme Court term, which begins Monday, will be the culmination of five decades of efforts by conservatives to seize control of the court. The court’s most watched case — Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to be argued on Dec. 1 — could dismantle principles of abortion rights set in 1973. The five most conservative justices — in their …

Supreme Court To Take Up 1st Major Gun Rights Case In More Than A Decade
3 years, 11 months ago

Supreme Court To Take Up 1st Major Gun Rights Case In More Than A Decade

NPR  

Supreme Court To Take Up 1st Major Gun Rights Case In More Than A Decade Enlarge this image toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP J. Scott Applewhite/AP In a major foray into gun rights, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a case testing how far states may go in regulating whether an individual may carry a gun outside the …

10 cases that could change how the Supreme Court looks at the Second Amendment
4 years, 10 months ago

10 cases that could change how the Supreme Court looks at the Second Amendment

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court’s solid conservative majority could soon choose to take up its first major Second Amendment case in nearly a decade, positioning the court to override state laws established to limit the availability and accessibility of some firearms and when they can be carried in public. Last month, Justice Brett Kavanaugh expressed his concern that lower courts …

US Supreme Court sidesteps major gun rights ruling
4 years, 11 months ago

US Supreme Court sidesteps major gun rights ruling

Al Jazeera  

The Supreme Court sidestepped a major decision on gun rights on Monday in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns. The anti-climactic end to the Supreme Court case is a disappointment to gun rights advocates and relief to gun control groups who thought a conservative Supreme Court majority fortified by two appointees of President Donald Trump, …

Supreme Court Takes 1st Gun Case In Nearly A Decade, Possibly With Big Consequences
6 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court Takes 1st Gun Case In Nearly A Decade, Possibly With Big Consequences

NPR  

Supreme Court Takes 1st Gun Case In Nearly A Decade, Possibly With Big Consequences Enlarge this image toggle caption John Locher/AP John Locher/AP With the Supreme Court now having five justices who are less likely to approve of gun regulations and laws, it granted a major gun case Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade. With a newfound …

Don't Bank On The Supreme Court To Clarify The Second Amendment Anytime Soon
8 years, 9 months ago

Don't Bank On The Supreme Court To Clarify The Second Amendment Anytime Soon

Huff Post  

It's unlikely the Supreme Court will hear a case to clarify the scope of the Second Amendment soon, given the current political climate and the fact that it's missing a justice. The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia is a significant reason why gun rights advocates are unlikely to get lucky at the Supreme Court. And suddenly, the gun lobby's …

What the "right to bear arms" really means
14 years, 2 months ago

What the "right to bear arms" really means

Salon  

The public debate over gun policy has fallen into a somewhat predictable pattern. Proposals for new gun regulation are made, prompting push-back from gun rights advocates, who circle their wagons, issue warnings about the threats to our Second Amendment rights, and -- in a more recent twist -- begin calling for a relaxation of existing gun regulation so that citizens …

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