Second Amendment Roundup: The Hawai'i Supreme Court Overrules Bruen Not really, it was only wishful thinking. Reason · Feb 13, 2024
Hawaii's Supreme Court Insists There Is No Individual Right to Arms Rejecting a challenge to the state's strict gun laws, the court is openly contemptuous of Second Amendment precedents. Reason · Feb 8, 2024
In today's gun rights cases, historians are in hot demand. Here's why The Supreme Court has made history a central test of whether a gun control law is constitutional. That has meant a boom in demand for gun law historians, who are digging up forgotten old gun laws. WEKU · Feb 3, 2024
Colorado Supreme Court Rules Trump is Ineligible for the Presidency Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment The Colorado court got this issue right. The case is now likely headed to the US Supreme Court. Reason · Dec 20, 2023
Supreme Court Roundup: Not all History is Created Equal Bruen directs the proper approach to historical analogue laws in Rahimi. Reason · Nov 1, 2023
Second Amendment Roundup: "Do as I Say, Not as You Ruled" Merrick Garland tells Supreme Court to apply his new, vague test, not Bruen decision. Reason · Oct 31, 2023
New Article: The General Law Right to Bear Arms with implications for the pending Supreme Court case of United States v. Rahimi Reason · Oct 31, 2023
It's Hard To See How the 9th Circuit Can Manage To Uphold California's 'Assault Weapon' Ban The appeals court is reviewing an injunction by a judge who concluded that the law is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's Second Amendment precedents. Reason · Oct 30, 2023
On Guns, Drugs, and National Security, Dianne Feinstein Was Consistently Authoritarian The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom. Reason · Sep 29, 2023
Four M-Sport Ford Pumas set to tackle WRC Rally Chile M-Sport's WRC2 driver Munster had been tipped to receive a Rally1 outing this season, with the Belgian-born driver now set to take over the Puma owned by privateer Jourdan Serderidis, who has been helping the 24-year-old rising star. Motorsport · Sep 5, 2023
Four Eighth Circuit Judges Argue That Felons Don't Categorically Lose Second Amendment Rights The opinion is today's dissent from denial of rehearing en banc in U.S. v. Jackson (8th Cir.), written by Judge David Stras, joined by Judges Ralph Erickson, Steven Grasz, and Jonathan Kobes: By cutting off as-applied challenges to the federal felon-in-possession statute, Jackson and Cunningham [two recent Eighth Circuit panel… Reason · Aug 30, 2023
Second Amendment Roundup: Looking for Historical Tradition in All the Wrong Places The Government drops reference to the slave codes as a historical analogue in Rahimi. Reason · Aug 25, 2023
5th Circuit Says Prosecuting a Cannabis Consumer for Possessing Guns Violated the Second Amendment The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms. Reason · Aug 11, 2023
Florida Appellate Court Rejects Third Circuit's Reasoning as to Felons and the Second Amendment From Edenfield v. State, decided Wednesday, in an opinion by Judge Bilbrey and joined by Judge Winokur, with Judge Long concurring in the result (for more on the Range case, see here): We deny Appellant's amended motion for rehearing, rehearing en banc, and to certify a question of great public… Reason · Aug 7, 2023
Windows Central · Aug 3, 2023 Starfield: List of companions, followers, and romance options Starfield, like the Bethesda Game Studios titles before it, has a long list of characters that can act as companions and even romantic partners.
Reason · Jul 26, 2023 Second Amendment Roundup: Upholding Oregon's Magazine Ban Plaintiffs’ experts are biased, but defendants’ are neutral.
Reason · Jul 21, 2023 Michigan Court of Appeals Upholds Ban on Guns at University of Michigan From Wade v. Univ. of Michigan, decided yesterday by the Michigan Court of Appeals (Judges Mark Cavanagh and Deborah Servitto); the ban covered all university property, which I take it includes dorms and open spaces: In Bruen, the Court stated that it was "settled" that arms carrying could be prohibited…
Reason · Jul 14, 2023 Second Amendment Roundup: Delaware's Gun Ban Heats Up Third Circuit briefing is ongoing in challenge to rifle ban signed into law just a week after Bruen.
Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 4, 2023 This July 4th, our nation needs freedom from unfettered gun violence According to a new Pew Research Center poll, some two-thirds of Americans expect gun violence to get worse over the next five years. Is that surprising, when our nation has experienced over 300 mass shootings already this year?
Reason · Jun 30, 2023 S. Ct. Will Review Whether Second Amendment Allows Disarming of People Subject to Civil Restraining Orders The Supreme Court just announced that it will consider this issue, in U.S. v. Rahimi; this is unsurprising, since the Court is generally inclined to review cases where a court held that a federal statute was unconstitutional, and where the federal government asks for review. Here's my post from February,…
PC Gamer · Jun 12, 2023 All the Starfield companions and crewmates we've seen so far Bethesda has said you won't be short for help on this ship; here's who you can recruit to the crew.
Reason · Jun 12, 2023 Second Amendment Roundup: Third Circuit Rules Felon Ban Invalid as Applied Range would be the best § 922(g) case for the Supreme Court to resolve.
Reason · Jun 7, 2023 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."
Salon · May 13, 2023 Thank Clarence Thomas for gun madness His Bruen gun rights decision is killing Americans every day
Reason · May 11, 2023 Supreme Court Roundup: The Supreme Court Should Review and Enjoin the Illinois Gun Ban On May 1, Justice Amy Coney Barrett directed the State of Illinois and the City of Naperville to respond to the emergency application for injunction pending appellate review filed by the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). As I explained in "An Opening Judicial Salvo in Defense of Illinois' New…