The Latest Breaking News from Second Amendment

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

“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?

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…

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…

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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…