Opinion: The Supreme Court may make America’s gun violence problem even worse
1 year, 1 month 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 get to work reforming the Supreme Court. Regardless of how Rahimi is decided, the Supreme Court has already done enormous damage to our ability to keep Americans safe from gun violence. Expanding the Supreme Court would be yet another way we can fight the war against senseless gun violence. And while we engage in the long-term battle to structurally reform the Supreme Court, we need to continue to support gun safety candidates and demand new laws.

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'All-new confusion': Experts warn Supreme Court ruling just made gun laws more chaotic
5 months, 4 weeks ago

'All-new confusion': Experts warn Supreme Court ruling just made gun laws more chaotic

Raw Story  

Gun safety activists breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting people with domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms by a commanding 8-1 margin. The case, United States v. Rahimi, was a major test of New York State Pistol & Rifle Association v. Bruen, a Clarence Thomas-authored opinion that took an absolutist …

Will latest Supreme Court decision affect California bans on assault weapons, magazines?
6 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 …

How the Supreme Court’s Conservatives Can Solve Their Guns Dilemma Without Losing Face
1 year 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’s Big Gun Case Was Humiliating for the Justices
54 years, 11 months ago

The Supreme Court’s Big Gun Case Was Humiliating for the Justices

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. In an opinion penned by Thomas, the court held, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, that restrictions on the right to bear arms are presumptively unconstitutional unless they are, in a judge’s learned opinion, consistent with the nation’s “historical …

More mass shootings like the one in Maine? Supreme Court will soon consider unleashing the violence
1 year, 1 month ago

More mass shootings like the one in Maine? Supreme Court will soon consider unleashing the violence

Salon  

Wednesday night's mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine was many things: horrific, terrifying, unfathomable, all the adjectives that get trotted out after these now-routine massacres. On November 7, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could force every state to let men like Maine's suspected mass shooter run wild with all the guns they wish. If that sounds hyperbolic, it's …

Key gun control measure in the crosshairs at US Supreme Court
1 year, 5 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 …

Turmoil In Courts On Gun Laws In Wake Of Justices' Ruling
1 year, 10 months 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 …

After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws
2 years, 4 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 …

Supreme Court strikes New York gun law, expanding gun rights
2 years, 6 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 …

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