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

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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 open many questions, resulting in an increasing number of conflicting decisions as lower court judges struggle to figure out how to apply it. 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 country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Courts in recent months have declared unconstitutional federal laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers,felony defendants and people who use marijuana. Judges have shot down a federal ban on possessing guns with serial numbers removed and gun restrictions for young adults in Texas and have blocked the enforcement of Delaware’s ban on the possession of homemade “ghost guns.” In several instances, judges looking at the same laws have come down on opposite sides on whether they are constitutional in the wake of the conservative Supreme Court majority’s ruling.

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US Supreme Court upholds Biden-era regulation of 'ghost guns'; what are they?
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4 days, 1 hour ago

US Supreme Court upholds Biden-era regulation of 'ghost guns'; what are they?

Hindustan Times  

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulation of untraceable "ghost guns" -- firearms sold in easy-to-assemble kits -- in a defeat for the powerful gun lobby. The Supreme Court upheld the ATF regulations in a 7-2 ruling with four conservative justices -- including all three first-term appointees of Republican President Donald Trump -- siding with the three …

US Supreme Court keeps federal 'Ghost Gun' regulations intact
4 days, 16 hours ago

US Supreme Court keeps federal 'Ghost Gun' regulations intact

India Today  

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a federal regulation targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns" imposed by Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration in a crackdown on firearms whose use has proliferated in crimes nationwide. Ghost gun products are typically purchased online and may be quickly assembled at home, without the serial numbers ordinarily used to trace guns or background …

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, …

Oregon appeals court says voter-approved gun law is constitutional, reversing lower court ruling
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Oregon appeals court says voter-approved gun law is constitutional, reversing lower court ruling

Associated Press  

SALEM, Ore. — An Oregon appeals court on Wednesday found that a gun control law approved by voters over two years ago is constitutional, reversing a lower court ruling from a state judge who had kept it on hold. It was among the first gun restrictions to be passed after a major 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling changed the guidance …

Supreme Court rejects appeal challenging Hawaii gun licensing requirements under Second Amendment
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court rejects appeal challenging Hawaii gun licensing requirements under Second Amendment

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Hawaii’s gun-licensing law on Monday, though three justices expressed a willingness to hear arguments over the issue later. But Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, wrote that he would vote to hear a case to “reaffirm that the Second Amendment warrants the same respect as any other constitutional right.” …

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 …

Brett Kavanaugh Promised This Ruling Would Make Judges Less Partisan. Guess How That Went!
5 months ago

Brett Kavanaugh Promised This Ruling Would Make Judges Less Partisan. Guess How That Went!

Slate  

This story was published in partnership with the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. But a new analysis by the Trace of more than 1,600 Second Amendment rulings filed in the wake of Bruen found that, instead of limiting judges’ discretion as Kavanaugh and the other conservative justices predicted, the decision has made federal courts even more …

9th Circuit upholds California gun bans in some ‘sensitive’ places, but not others
6 months, 3 weeks ago

9th Circuit upholds California gun bans in some ‘sensitive’ places, but not others

LA Times  

A semiautomatic pistol is among several weapons displayed three years ago after being seized by the Oakland Police Department. California may enforce its recent ban on guns in “sensitive places” when it comes to parks and playgrounds, bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, casinos, stadiums, amusement parks, zoos, libraries, museums, athletic facilities and the parking areas associated with them, a …

Massachusetts strikes down a 67-year-old switchblade ban, cites landmark Supreme Court gun decision
7 months ago

Massachusetts strikes down a 67-year-old switchblade ban, cites landmark Supreme Court gun decision

Associated Press  

Residents of Massachusetts are now free to arm themselves with switchblades after a 67-year-old restriction was struck down following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark decision on gun rights and the Second Amendment. In its decision, the Supreme Judicial Court reviewed this history of knives and pocket knives from colonial times in following U.S. Supreme Court guidance to focus on …

Big wins for Trump and sharp blows to regulations mark momentous Supreme Court term
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Big wins for Trump and sharp blows to regulations mark momentous Supreme Court term

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court got most of what they wanted this term, from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile. on present exigencies.” The court also overturned the Chevron decision, stripped the SEC of a major fraud-fighting tool and …

Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to state assault weapons ban
8 months, 4 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, 4 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 …

Supreme Court Ruling Threatens Biden Gun Reforms
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Supreme Court Ruling Threatens Biden Gun Reforms

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the long-standing “Chevron doctrine” on Friday dealt a major blow to the power of federal agencies. PATRICK T. FALLON via Getty Images And this year, the ATF enacted a farther-reaching rule that altered the definition of what it means to be “engaged in the business” of dealing firearms. In an effort to …

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, 1 week 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 …

Experts reveal surprising beneficiary of Supreme Court's gun violence decision
9 months, 1 week 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 …

U.S. Supreme Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
9 months, 1 week ago

U.S. Supreme Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims

The Hindu  

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 21 upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence. At arguments in November, some justices voiced concern that a ruling for Rahimi could also jeopardize the background check system that the Biden administration said has stopped more than 75,000 gun sales in the past 25 years based …

Supreme Court Upholds Law That Keeps Guns Away From Domestic Abusers
9 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Upholds Law That Keeps Guns Away From Domestic Abusers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The federal government can continue to limit domestic abusers’ gun rights, according to a landmark ruling issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that helps clarify the conservative-majority court’s thinking on firearm restrictions. The case of United States v. Rahimi emerged as a high-profile test of how far the Supreme Court was willing to go in …

Supreme Court upholds gun law to protect domestic violence victims
9 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court upholds gun law to protect domestic violence victims

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence. “As a result of today’s ruling, survivors of domestic violence and their families will still be able to count on critical protections, just as they have for the past three decades.” Last week, the court overturned a Trump-era …

Editorial: Supreme Court’s commonsense gun rights ruling will keep Californians safer — for now
9 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Supreme Court’s commonsense gun rights ruling will keep Californians safer — for now

LA Times  

It appears there are some limits to the U.S. Supreme Court’s fundamentalist approach to constitutional interpretation. The court on Friday rejected an argument that Texas’ law to temporarily disarm people who present a credible threat does not violate the 2nd Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms. Because there were no domestic violence restraining orders at the …

Opinion: By keeping guns away from domestic abusers, the justices set an example for other courts
9 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: By keeping guns away from domestic abusers, the justices set an example for other courts

LA Times  

The justices affirmed that the federal government and states can continue to restrain gun rights in some ways. The Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday finally brought common sense to analyzing gun rights under the 2nd Amendment. The court’s holding should be noncontroversial: A person can be prohibited from having a gun “once a court has found that represents a credible …

What's next up for the Supreme Court? Abortion rights, gun laws and more
9 months, 2 weeks ago

What's next up for the Supreme Court? Abortion rights, gun laws and more

NPR  

What's next up for the Supreme Court? It is the most important test of presidential power since the Supreme Court’s 1974 decision ordering President Nixon to turn over to the Watergate special prosecutor specific — and ultimately incriminating — tape recordings of his White House conversations. Aside from those cases, there are other major controversies: two involving abortion, two involving …

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on rifles known as assault weapons
10 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on rifles known as assault weapons

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The Maryland plaintiffs, including gun rights groups, argued that semi-automatic weapons like the AR-15 are among the most popular firearms in the country and banning them runs afoul of the Second Amendment, …

Supreme Court Will Take Up The Legal Fight Over Ghost Guns
11 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Will Take Up The Legal Fight Over Ghost Guns

Huff Post  

FILE - The Supreme Court of the United States is seen in Washington, March 26, 2024. AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, …

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers
11 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The requirement applies regardless of how the firearm was made, meaning it includes ghost guns made from individual parts or kits or by 3D printers. The Justice Department had told …

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ‘ghost guns’, firearms without serial numbers
11 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ‘ghost guns’, firearms without serial numbers

LA Times  

The Justice Department had told the Supreme Court that local law enforcement agencies seized more than 19,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021. The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. Politics Supreme Court revives federal rules against ‘ghost …

Federal court rules firearm restrictions on defendants awaiting trial are constitutional
1 year ago

Federal court rules firearm restrictions on defendants awaiting trial are constitutional

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 Court orders that prohibited two …

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 …

Federal judge blocks California law that would bar guns in many public places
1 year, 3 months ago

Federal judge blocks California law that would bar guns in many public places

LA Times  

A new California law that would bar licensed gun holders from carrying their firearms into an array of public places will not go into full effect on Jan. 1 as scheduled, after a federal judge blocked major parts of it as unconstitutional Wednesday. The law, Senate Bill 2, was part of a slate of new gun control measures passed this …

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 …

The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve a gun law that protects domestic violence victims
1 year, 4 months ago

The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve a gun law that protects domestic violence victims

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to preserve a federal law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. The federal appeals court in New Orleans struck down the domestic violence law, following the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision in June 2022. Justice Elena Kagan noted that “there seems to be a fair bit of division …

Opinion: Supreme Court has a huge decision to make
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: Supreme Court has a huge decision to make

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jill Filipovic is a journalist and author of the book “OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.” Follow her on Twitter. CNN — On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments on a pivotal gun case over a federal law that bars people subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Justice Clarence …

Supreme Court sounds wary of extending gun rights to domestic abusers
1 year, 4 months ago

Supreme Court sounds wary of extending gun rights to domestic abusers

LA Times  

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case centered on whether modern gun control laws may deny firearms to potentially dangerous people. The Supreme Court on Tuesday sounded wary of extending the 2nd Amendment to keep guns in the hands of potentially dangerous people who are put under a domestic violence restraining order. He said the government may not …

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 …

Will the Supreme Court Flunk Its Domestic Violence Test?
1 year, 5 months ago

Will the Supreme Court Flunk Its Domestic Violence Test?

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. Activist Del Martin’s landmark book Battered Wives, which exposed the scale of domestic violence in the United States, was published in 1976, five years after the first shelter opened in Phoenix, Arizona. As Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy Schiller have catalogued, 28 states have …

Court reviews gun-carry restrictions under health order in New Mexico, as states explore options
1 year, 5 months ago

Court reviews gun-carry restrictions under health order in New Mexico, as states explore options

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 Restrictions on carrying guns in …

Oregon judge to decide in new trial whether voter-approved gun control law is constitutional
1 year, 6 months ago

Oregon judge to decide in new trial whether voter-approved gun control law is constitutional

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon judge is set to decide whether a gun control law approved by voters in November violates the state’s constitution in a trial that started Monday. “When they passed Measure 114, Oregon voters made a legislative judgment about the serious and immediate threat that large capacity magazines pose to public safety, and that judgment is entitled …

Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case
1 year, 7 months ago

Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has ruled that drug users shouldn’t automatically be banned from having guns, marking the latest sign of upheaval in the nation’s firearm legal landscape and raising questions about a law cited in the case against Hunter Biden. The appeals court cited the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as New York State Rifle & …

Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers
1 year, 7 months ago

Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers. “The public-safety interests in reversing the flow of ghost guns to dangerous and otherwise prohibited persons easily outweighs the minor costs that respondents will …

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 …

Judge rejects attempt to temporarily block Connecticut’s landmark gun law passed after Sandy Hook
1 year, 7 months ago

Judge rejects attempt to temporarily block Connecticut’s landmark gun law passed after Sandy Hook

Associated Press  

HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request to temporarily block Connecticut’s landmark 2013 gun control law, passed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, until a gun rights group’s lawsuit against the statute has concluded. U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven ruled the National Association for Gun Rights has not shown that the …

Key gun control measure in the crosshairs at US Supreme Court
1 year, 8 months ago

Key gun control measure in the crosshairs at US Supreme Court

Firstpost  

Rahimi challenged his conviction on the grounds that the law violated the Constitution’s Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms,” and won. Biden’s administration has appealed The U.S. Supreme Court, which last year expanded gun rights in a landmark ruling, is set to return to the issue in a major case testing whether a law that keeps firearms away …

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 …

Zackey Rahimi's SCOTUS Case May Change Gun Rights
1 year, 8 months ago

Zackey Rahimi's SCOTUS Case May Change Gun Rights

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING When detectives went looking for Zackey Rahimi at his family home in Kennedale, Texas, on Jan. 14, 2021, they didn’t find him. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Rahimi’s conviction, ruling that the law barring domestic abusers from keeping guns unconstitutionally violates their right to bear arms. With a hazy time frame and unclear definition of what amounts …

The Supreme Court will decide if some judges have gone too far in striking down gun restrictions
1 year, 9 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 …

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