The Latest Breaking News from Second Amendment

Disarming a Man Based on a Nonviolent Misdemeanor Was Unconstitutional, the 3rd Circuit Rules

The decision highlights the injustice of a federal law that bans gun possession by broad categories of "prohibited persons."

Reason · Jun 7, 2023

Second Amendment Roundup: Looking for Historical Analogues in All the Wrong Places

California is appealing the injunction against its “Not Unsafe” Handgun Act.

Reason · Jun 7, 2023

First (?) Libel-by-AI (ChatGPT) Lawsuit Filed

"Every statement of fact in the summary [provided by ChatGPT] pertaining to [plaintiff] Walters is false."

Reason · Jun 7, 2023

"Could Hunter Biden Be the Next Poster Child for Second Amendment Rights?"

An interesting article in Politico (Betsy Woodruff Swan): The president's son is the target of a Justice Department investigation scrutinizing his purchase of a gun in 2018 — a time when he has said he was regularly using crack cocaine. Federal law bans drug users from owning guns. But the…

Reason · Jun 1, 2023

Second Amendment Roundup: U.S. Seeking Cert on Prohibited Persons

The Administration is hoping that bad facts will make bad law.

Reason · May 30, 2023

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…

Reason · May 17, 2023

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."

Reason · May 17, 2023

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.

Roll Call · May 17, 2023

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…

Reason · May 16, 2023

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.

Reason · May 15, 2023