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Second Amendment Roundup: ATF redefines "engaged in the business"

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

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Second Amendment Roundup: Injunction Against Washington Magazine Ban Stayed Within Minutes

The stay was issued without time to review the opinion and the motion to stay, and without allowing an opposition brief.

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Second Amendment Roundup: A Double Shot of Oral Arguments

“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?

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Second Amendment Protects Public Housing Tenants

The public Cortland Housing Authority (near Syracuse) required its tenants not to possess "firearms … or other weapons as defined by the laws and courts of the State of New York" on its property. In Hunter v. Cortland Housing Authority, decided Jan. 30, 2024 (though I somehow missed it), Judge…

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The Second Amendment and 18-to-20-Year-Olds

From Third Circuit Judge Cheryl Krause's dissent from denial of rehearing en banc yesterday in Lara v. Commissioner; Judges Shwartz, Restrepo, Freeman, Montgomery-Reeves, and Chung also voted to rehear the case en banc, but didn't write an opinion or join Judge Krause's: When they ratified the Second Amendment, our Founders…

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Another Judge Says Illegal Immigrants Have Second Amendment Rights

Some supposed defenders of the right to bear arms react with alarm.

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Biden Decries Criminalization of Cannabis Consumers Even As He Insists They Have No Second Amendment Rights

Hours before the president said "no one should be jailed" for marijuana use, his Justice Department was saying no one who uses marijuana should be allowed to own guns.

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Law Enforcement Trainers File Scotus Amicus Brief against Maryland Rifle Ban

Citizens should be able to choose the same high-quality defensive arms that peace officers choose

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Second Amendment Roundup: Delaware's "Assault Weapon" Ban Argued in 3rd Circuit

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

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California Violated the Second Amendment by Disarming People Based on Nullified Convictions

A federal judge ruled that three men who committed nonviolent felonies decades ago are entitled to buy, own, and possess guns.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Cargill Bump Stock Argument in Supreme Court

The continuous, manual forward pressure on the handguard precludes “automatic” function.

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Urinalysis Requirement for Gun Carry Permit Likely Unconstitutional

So held Nassau County (N.Y.) trial judge James P. McCormack last week in In the Matter of Kamenshchik, applying the Second Circuit's recent decision in Antonyuk v. Chiumento. Antonyuk held (among other things) that "requiring applicants to disclose even pseudonymous names under which they post online imposes an impermissible infringement…

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Second Amendment Roundup: D.C.'s Magazine Ban Argued Again in D.C. Circuit

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

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Second Amendment Roundup: The Hawai'i Supreme Court Overrules Bruen

Not really, it was only wishful thinking.

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Hawaii's Supreme Court Insists There Is No Individual Right to Arms

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

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In today's gun rights cases, historians are in hot demand. Here's why

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.

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The 'No Compromise' NRA Is Neither New nor Uncompromising

The book Vote Gun criticizes the NRA’s rhetoric but pays little attention to gun control advocates' views.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Agency "Guidance," Interpretive Regulations, and Chevron

State and federal agencies express views that are thinly-veiled diktats.

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Court Lets First AI Libel Case Go Forward

Georgia Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Tracie Cason's decision last week in Walters v. OpenAI, LLC simply says that it denies OpenAI's motion to dismiss, and (as is common in many state courts) doesn't offer a detailed explanation. But here's an excerpt from Walters' response to OpenAI's motion to dismiss;…

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9th Circuit Temporarily Restores the Right To Bear Arms As It Mulls California's New Gun-Free Zones

The state's law, which a federal judge enjoined last month, prohibits firearms in most public places.

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Federal judges block California gun ban, Second Amendment prevails!

Federal judges halt California's plan to ban firearms in public places, citing Second Amendment violations. An appeal is expected. Stay tuned for updates!

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