The Latest Breaking News from Heller

A few practical thoughts for future cases (all bold emphasis added): [1.] The Court solidly accepts (with only Justice Thomas dissenting) that "the Second Amendment permits the disarmament of individuals who pose a credible threat to the physical safety of others," at least after a judicial finding of such threat.…

The Supreme Court’s Cargill ruling has broad implications.

The Ninth Circuit invalidates the felon gun ban for non-violent offenses with no Founding-era analogues.

Agency pushes the envelope to require gun dealer licenses beyond the statute.

“Large-capacity” magazines and semiautomatic rifles are “bearable arms” in common use, no different from the handguns in Heller, but will two en banc courts agree?

Likelihood of prevailing on a constitutional claim may suffice for a preliminary injunction.

The real crisis seems to be in academia, not at the Court

It was déjà vu, but this time post-Bruen.

Not really, it was only wishful thinking.

Rejecting a challenge to the state's strict gun laws, the court is openly contemptuous of Second Amendment precedents.

The Supreme Court has made history a central test of whether a gun control law is constitutional. That has meant a boom in demand for gun law historians, who are digging up forgotten old gun laws.