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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.

WEKU

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

Reason

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

The Independent UK

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.

Miami Herald

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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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.

Reason

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?

Los Angeles Times

Colorado U.S. District Court issues TRO against magazine and gun ban

Ruling against town of Superior's law is the first post-Bruen decision on arms bans

Reason

Newsom signs gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial gun control bill modeled after Texas’ vigilante abortion law on Friday, teeing up a legal battle with a U.S. Supreme Court friendly to Second Amendment groups and firearm owners.

Los Angeles Times

Abortion, racism, guns and the right

Do things change? An early version of the racist "great replacement" theory drove the campaign to outlaw abortion

Salon

Second Amendment Rights of People Briefly Hospitalized for Mental Health Reasons Long Ago?

From Judge Dale Drozd's opinion in Clifton v. U.S. DOJ (E.D. Cal.), filed Friday: In 2001, plaintiff was in eighth grade at Mt. Vernon Middle School in Los Angeles, California. He was thirteen years old at the time. Because plaintiff's mother had passed away and he never knew his father,…

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War on California gun laws revs up after Supreme Court’s ‘right to carry’ decision

LOS ANGELES — For years, the relationship between Miranda and Richard Wallingford and their Huntington Beach neighbor Jessica Nguyen has been unhappy — if not outright hostile.

Reason

This Lawsuit Says a Recent SCOTUS Decision Makes It Clear That 'Assault Weapon' Bans Are Unconstitutional

The Supreme Court unambiguously rejected the sort of reasoning that a federal appeals court used to uphold New York's ban.

Reason

AP Stylebook on "Assault Weapon," "Assault Rifle," and "Semi-Automatic Weapon"

I don't agree with everything in the AP Stylebook, but I think this guidance is sound (and I think it's generally useful for prominent media organizations to offer such suggestions to writers): https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1547309549488640000 Thanks to Alan Gottlieb (Second Amendment Foundation) for pointing this out.

The Independent UK

Matt Gaetz claims active shooter alert bill designed to make people ‘hate’ Second Amendment rights

Bill would create local alert system

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California enacts sweeping gun control laws, setting up a legal showdown

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against restrictions on carrying firearms in public in a substantial victory for Second Amendment advocates, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed at least three major gun control measures into law to restrict access to the weapons and…

The Hindu

HC quashes Telangana VAT (Second Amendment) Act

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John M. Crisp: The Founding Fathers never meant to tie our hands on guns

Remember Uvalde? Does it seem that our memory of the shocking murder of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers has faded too quickly?

The Times of India

Telangana high court sets aside VAT amendment, calls it ‘unconstitutional’

HYDERABAD: In what could come as a huge relief to traders in the state, the high court has struck down the Telangana Value Added Tax (Second Amendment) Act, 2017. The court said the Telangana VAT was contradictory to the intentions of lawmakers who brought in a unified GST regime for…

The Independent UK

Father of man arrested in Highland Park shooting liked Second Amendment tweet after Uvalde school massacre

Robert Crimo has been arrested by police after six people were shot dead in the latest US mass shooting

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Conservatives no more: Supreme Court’s ruling on EPA’s right to regulate greenhouse gases is a capper on a radical term

First, a “textualist” Supreme Court majority ignored the Second Amendment clause attaching gun rights to “a well regulated Militia.” Cherry-picking history to claim that carrying a weapon has always been protected, the “conservatives” killed a century-old New York statute regulating the concealed carry of firearms and elevated a newly contrived…

The Guardian - UK

‘I will never be against the second amendment’: Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike on rap, racism and gun control

After almost a decade of working alongside El-P, the rapper is releasing a solo single. He talks about the chaos and loss that inspired it, his friendship with Bernie Sanders and the ‘racist’ twisting of lyrics

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