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Foster Parent Second Amendment Case Sent Back to Trial Court in Light of Bruen

From today's Wisconsin Court of Appeals summary disposition in Lafferty v. Amundson (decided by Justices Gundrum, Neubauer & Grogan): Brian and Katie Lafferty appeal from a circuit court order rejecting the Laffertys' constitutional challenges to [a] Department of Children and Families Rule, which imposes certain firearm storage requirements for foster…

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New Jersey's Restrictions on Public Gun Possession Are 'Plainly Unconstitutional,' a Federal Judge Says

The state defied a Supreme Court ruling by banning guns from myriad "sensitive places."

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Supreme Court declines to block Illinois gun restrictions - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block an Illinois ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

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Preliminary Injunction Against NJ Ban on Peaceable Carry

Today the U.S. District Court for New Jersey issued a very thorough 230-page preliminary injunction against much of the New Jersey legislature's Bruen response bill. As in the years after Brown v. Board of Education, some state legislatures under the sway of anti-civil rights lobbies have engaged in massive resistance…

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Age Restrictions on Handgun Sales Are Unconstitutional, a Federal Judge Rules

U.S. District Judge Robert Payne concluded that 18-to-20-year-olds have the same Second Amendment rights as older adults.

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Thank Clarence Thomas for gun madness

His Bruen gun rights decision is killing Americans every day

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Virginia judge says law banning sales of handguns to young adults is unconstitutional

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a law banning licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 violates the Second Amendment and is unconstitutional

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Supreme Court Roundup: The Supreme Court Should Review and Enjoin the Illinois Gun Ban

On May 1, Justice Amy Coney Barrett directed the State of Illinois and the City of Naperville to respond to the emergency application for injunction pending appellate review filed by the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). As I explained in "An Opening Judicial Salvo in Defense of Illinois' New…

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How a US Supreme Court ruling is transforming gun control

As mass killings stoke calls for reform, legal fights over the historical basis for gun rights have gone into overdrive.

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Texas House Overwhelmingly Approves Restrictions on No-Knock Warrants

Conservatives who support the bill recognize the conflict between unannounced home invasions and the Second Amendment.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Illinois Gun Ban Enjoined

The banned “assault weapon” features improve accuracy and reduce the risk of stray shots.

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"Petitioner's Second Amendment Rights Are Not Dependent on Her Spouse's Acquisition …

of an unrestricted concealed carry pistol permit," says N.Y. appellate court.

Reason

Just say it: Second Amendment must go

Sooner or later, change will come: Younger Americans won't tolerate this constitutional delusion much longer

Salon

Editorial: Why ‘Second Amendment people’ should be at the forefront of gun control solutions

Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who served Illinois’ 11th Congressional District and later the 16th from 2011 to early this year, is one of the Republican Party’s most significant truth tellers. Kinzinger is now a political commentator. In his blistering farewell address to Congress in December, Kinzinger said: “Where Republicans…

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GOP candidates tread cautiously on gun issues in Kentucky

In the days after a bank employee used an assault-style rifle to kill five coworkers, Republicans running for governor this year in Kentucky have been deflecting questions about gun legislation

Reason

Second Amendment Roundup: To Preserve Liberty, Not Slavery

Carl Bogus invented the fiction that the purpose of the Second Amendment was slave control.

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Another Federal Judge Rejects the DOJ's Argument That Cannabis Consumers Have No Second Amendment Rights

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.

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Second Amendment Roundup: Persons Aged 18-20 Are Entitled to Carry Firearms

Young adults are included in “the people” protected by the Second Amendment.

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Florida lawmakers OK carrying guns without a permit

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill Thursday allowing Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit or training, disappointing gun violence prevention activists while falling short of what some Second Amendment advocates wanted.

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The Ruling Upholding the Gun Rights of People Subject to Restraining Orders Is Not As Crazy As You Might Think

The 5th Circuit noted that such orders can be issued without any credible evidence of a threat to others.

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Second Amendment Roundup: District Court Invalidates California's Unsafe Handgun Act

Pistol designs are frozen in a 2007 time warp.

Tribune News Service

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoes pistol permit repeal, setting up override showdown with GOP

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed gun rights legislation Friday that would repeal the state’s permit requirement for buying handguns, which Republicans argue is outdated and an unnecessary infringement on Second Amendment rights, but which most Democrats vehemently oppose ending.

Salon

GOPer compares heckler to "insurrection"

"I don't want another Jan. 6," said Rep. Pat Fallon after a hearing on the Second Amendment was interrupted

Roll Call

Parkland father arrested during House hearing on gun rights - Roll Call

A man whose son was killed in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was arrested outside a hearing on Second Amendment rights.

Reason

The DOJ Says Forbidding Pot Users To Own Guns Is Like Telling People Not To Carry Guns When They're Drunk

Defending a categorical ban on gun possession by cannabis consumers, the Biden administration cites inapt "historical analogues."

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