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After Parkland shooting, Rubio vowed to support law raising minimum age to buy assault-style rifle. Now he opposes it

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Immediately after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., promised to support a law raising the minimum legal age for buying assault-style rifles.

Tribune News Service

Court rulings wipe out gun laws in wake of Supreme Court decision

Federal judges have struck down gun restrictions in the months since a Supreme Court decision that expanded Second Amendment rights, and experts say there is likely more to come.

Tribune News Service

Court rulings wipe out gun laws in wake of Supreme Court decision

Judges have struck down gun restrictions since a June decision by the court, while expressing uncertainty over how to interpret the ruling.

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Public Housing Complexes May Not Ban Gun Possession by Tenants

So holds the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

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Requirement of Serial Numbers on Guns Violates Second Amendment

From U.S. v. Price, decided yesterday by Judge Joseph R. Goodwin (S.D. W. Va.): Section 922(k) states, in pertinent part, It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to transport … in interstate or foreign commerce, any firearm which has had the importer's or manufacturer's serial number removed, obliterated, or…

Reason

Editorial: A federal judge wrongly knocks down New York State’s updated gun laws

Conservative jurisprudence on guns has fallen far and fallen fast into the gaping maw of Second Amendment absolutism.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The shooting at Roxborough High and the absurd state law that limits local gun safety measures

It should come as no surprise that Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney's executive order banning guns and other deadly weapons at city recreation centers and playgrounds did nothing to prevent a 14-year-old boy from getting murdered Tuesday after a football scrimmage outside Roxborough High School.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Texas judge rules that people under felony indictment have the right to buy guns under the Second Amendment

A judge appointed by former President Donald Trump based his decision on a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down New York’s concealed carry law.

The Texas Tribune

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Expresses Doubt About Appellate Decisions About History in Second Amendment Cases

But wouldn't the arguments in the dissent equally cast doubt on all historical analysis in constitutional cases, or even statutory or common-law cases?

Reason

Lawsuit challenges Minnesota's age limit on open-carry permits

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal lawsuit challenging Minnesota's age limit for permits to carry handguns in public is attracting intervention from national gun safety advocacy groups ahead of a key court hearing next month in St. Paul.

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2022 Supplement for Firearms Law and the Second Amendment

Learn about all the important developments in the last year

Reason

Editorial: A Texas federal judge makes an indefensible ruling

Mark Pittman, put on the federal bench in Fort Worth by Donald Trump, thinks that it’s just not constitutional to limit the sale of handguns to people age 21 and older. In an opinion issued Thursday agreeing with a gun group that sued to knock out Texas’ eminently sound prohibition…

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Third Circuit Sends Down to District Court the Second Amendment Challenge to N.J.'s Ban on >10-Round Magazines

The appellate court would leave the matter for the district court to decide in the first instance, subject to appellate review; Judge Matey dissented, arguing that the appellate court should have considered the issue directly.

Reason

Federal judge says Texas can’t ban 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, who cited the Second Amendment in his decision, stayed the ruling pending appeal.

The Texas Tribune

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Ninth Circuit Sends the Hawaii Concealed Carry Challenge Back Down to District Court

The en banc panel majority (seven judges) ordered today, in Young v. Hawaii: The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of this Court, 992 F.3d 765, and has remanded this case to us "for further consideration in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S.…

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The 'Gun Dude' and a Supreme Court case that changed who can own firearms in the U.S.

An individual right to own a gun for personal protection is an idea deeply ingrained in American culture, but until Dick Heller came along, there was little actual legal framework to back that belief.

Reason

Fourth Circuit amicus brief on Maryland handgun licensing law

Legal history before 1900 provides no support for licensing or training mandates for keeping an arm at home

Reason

The Biden Administration Defends the Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Medical Marijuana Users

The Justice Department says that policy is rational and consistent with the right to keep and bear arms.

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Restoring the right to bear arms, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen

Article for Cato Supreme Court Review

The Independent UK

After Supreme Court ruling, it's open season on US gun laws

The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over issues including age limits and bans on AR-15-style guns

Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Parkland shooter’s trial should be required viewing for AR-15 advocates like Rubio

Americans who hold the musket-rights granting Second Amendment near and dear to their hearts — and love high-velocity rifles more than our children — should be watching the Parkland shooter’s sentencing trial.

Chicago Sun-Times

Democrats don’t care whether banning assault weapons is constitutional

Even while conceding that the rifles they want to ban are commonly used for lawful purposes, Democrats refuse to grapple with the implications.

Reason

Democrats Don't Care Whether Banning 'Assault Weapons' Is Constitutional

Even while conceding that the rifles they want to ban are commonly used for lawful purposes, they refuse to grapple with the implications.

Reason

The New York Times Is Surprised To Find Public Defenders Championing the Second Amendment

Yet the civil rights movement has long had a gun rights component.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Is California’s new gun law, modeled after the Texas abortion law, constitutional?

The debate over California’s controversial new gun law, signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, seems to confuse two important questions: How can the law be challenged in court and, once challenged, is it constitutional?

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