Supreme Court will consider whether AR-15 bans violate the Second Amendment A Supreme Court that has expanded gun rights will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault ...
Meanwhile, the top court of Massachusetts considers whether the state can deny carry permits to applicants who are deemed "unsuitable." ...
So the Court held that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual the right to have a sawed-off double barrel shotgun because that specific weapon was not a reasonable weapon for either a ...
President Donald Trump's Justice Department just opened fire on two federal laws that have infringed on gun rights for almost ...
After a counterprotester was killed at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, many members of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemned its Virginia chapter for defending the ...
The great comedian Dave Chappelle once said, "The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out." There's nothing funny about what's happening ...
Alex Pretti’s killing at the hands of federal agents last week is an American tragedy. It has also exposed the fallacies and fault lines that shape how Americans live with widespread access to guns.
Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. The contrast in ...
This term, the Supreme Court has two Second Amendment cases on its docket. Tomorrow the Court hears oral argument in Wolford v. Lopez, challenging Hawaii’s 2023 law that bans firearms on private ...
The Supreme Court is set to begin a landmark term featuring significant cases regarding climate change, firearm regulations, religious discrimination in education, parental rights, and various ...
Also published in Reason's The Volokh Conspiracy Sun. March 29, 2026. On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Trump v. Barbara, concerning the meaning of the Citizenship Clause in the ...
Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In previous articles, I explored two of the biggest unanswered questions in the Second Amendment space: Who are “the people,” ...