Heller identified an individual right to keep and bear arms. McDonald made that right enforceable against the states. Bruen confirmed public carry and forced courts to follow text, history, and tradition. Together, they form the holy trinity of modern Second Amendment law.
A divided Ninth Circuit reversed another Second Amendment victory, treating Hawaii’s handgun-permit deadline and police-inspection mandate as presumptively constitutional because they sit inside a “shall-issue” system. Five dissenting judges said the majority misread Bruen and improperly sh...
DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel says the federal ban on licensed dealers selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds cannot be criminally enforced. Read the original story: DOJ Says It Will Not Prosecute Dealers Who Sell Handguns to 18-to-20-Year-Olds, Calling Federal Ban Inconsistent With the Second Am...
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel says the federal government cannot constitutionally punish gun dealers for selling handguns to otherwise law-abiding adults between 18 and 20.
A new legal paper from SAF attorney Kostas Moros argues that special taxes targeting common firearms and ammunition violate the Second Amendment—including California’s 11% “sin tax,” Colorado’s 6.5% levy, Pittman-Robertson and some NFA taxes.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explains the fundamental principle behind the Second Amendment: Americans possess the right to keep and bear arms before government, and the Constitution forbids government from infringing it.
The Supreme Court is preparing to decide whether governments may ban AR-15-style rifles. Here is every amicus brief filed in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins, including the arguments supporting gun owners and two supposedly neutral briefs that advance anti-gun positions.
FPC, NRA, GOA, and other gun-rights plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to strike down New Jersey’s one-handgun-a-month restriction, arguing that the state’s own experts cannot identify a comparable Founding-era law.
Firearms reviewer James Reeves says plaintiffs suing Smith & Wesson have subpoenaed years of information about his gun reviews while defining even unpaid social-media content as advertising.
Washington State Patrol says the state’s new permit to purchase a firearm will cost $126 before buyers pay for mandatory training, ammunition, range time, and travel.