NEW ORLEANS, LA — The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to rehear United States v. Squire en banc, vacating a June panel opinion and setting up what could become the most consequential challenge to federal gun law in decades. Here’s the surprising part. The case is no longe...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two major Second Amendment challenges to bans on modern semiautomatic rifles. For gun owners, Grant v. Higgins and Viramontes v. Cook County could become the long-awaited test of whether AR-15-style rifles are protected “arms.”
DES MOINES, IA — The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown out a felony conviction built on a lifetime firearm ban, ruling that the indefinite prohibition could not survive the strict scrutiny that Iowa voters wrote into the state constitution in 2022. In a 5-2 decision filed June 26, the court reverse...
MIAMI, FL — A Florida judge has overturned a Risk Protection Order that stripped investigative journalist James O’Keefe of his firearms, ordering that his guns be returned to him from the West Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office. Judge Marie E. Mato issued the ruling at a hearing in Miami, ...
In a rare legal reversal, 51-year-old LaRoy Robinson has been acquitted of murder and felonious assault charges related to the 2023 shooting death of Malik Islam. After his original conviction was set aside due to improper jury instructions, a bench trial before Judge Mark Serrott concluded that ...
A federal court has blocked enforcement of the post office gun ban for some Americans. Here’s what the ruling really means—and why the case isn’t over.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit overturned a machine gun possession conviction against an Iowa police chief in United States v. Brad Wendt, while leaving fraud convictions intact.
The Civil Rights Division of the Trump administration Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief defending the Second Amendment against infringements imposed by the Massachusetts handgun roster.