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Second Amendment Roundup: Circuit Conflict in Felon Gun Ban Cases

Congress should reinstate ATF appropriations for removal of disabilities.

Reason · Jan 14, 2025

5th Cir. Says More on When Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Is Unconstitutional

From Monday's U.S. v. Daniels decision, written by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Judge Don Willett: Title 18… The post 5th Cir. Says More on When Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Is Unconstitutional appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Jan 8, 2025

5th Circuit Reaffirms That Prosecuting a Marijuana User for Illegal Gun Possession Was Unconstitutional

Patrick Darnell Daniels Jr. was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for violating a federal law that bars drug users from owning firearms.

Reason · Jan 7, 2025

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Should Felons Have the Right to Challenge Their Loss of Gun Rights, on a Case-by-Case Basis?

No, said an Eighth Circuit panel in U.S. v. Jackson earlier this year; yesterday, the court refused to rehear the… The post Should Felons Have the Right to Challenge Their Loss of Gun Rights, on a Case-by-Case Basis? appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Nov 6, 2024

Judges wrestle with latest Supreme Court gun rights opinion - Roll Call

The Supreme Court’s latest opinion on gun rights has not eliminated the disagreement among judges in those challenges, legal experts say.

Roll Call · Sep 18, 2024

Rahimi On Remand

"We read the Court's analysis in Rahimi to have modified Bruen in at least one relevant respect."

Reason · Sep 13, 2024

Fifth Circuit Won't Revisit Its Earlier Precedent Holding Illegal Aliens Lack Second Amendment Rights

From yesterday's decision in U.S. v. Medina-Cantu, by Judge Carolyn Dineen King and Kurt Engelhardt: In U.S. v. Portillo-Munoz (5th Cir. 2011), this court held that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), which prohibits an illegal alien from possessing a firearm or ammunition, is constitutional under the Second Amendment. In the present…

Reason · Aug 28, 2024

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Second Amendment Roundup: 8th Circuit Rules for 18 to 20-Year-Olds

Court relies on Rahimi in support of liberalized gun carry permits.

Reason · Jul 23, 2024

The DOJ Claims Medical Marijuana Patients Who Own Guns 'Endanger the Public in Multiple Ways'

Defending the federal ban on gun possession by drug users, the government's lawyers seem increasingly desperate.

Reason · Jul 18, 2024

Rahimi and NetChoice: Why Is The Facial Challenge Bar Lowered For The First Amendment and Not The Second Amendment?

The right to keep and bear arms remains a second-class right.

Reason · Jul 18, 2024

The Consequences and Craft of Trump v. United States

in the latest episode of Divided Argument

Reason · Jul 4, 2024

Supreme Court sidesteps gun law challenge that could impact Hunter Biden’s case

Supreme Court asked lower appeals courts to remand a case cited by Hunter Biden’s lawyers

The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2024

Attention SCOTUS Shoppers: Clean up on Article III and there is a Blue-Light Special on the Second Amendment.

SCOTUS GVR's Range, sends Second Amendment to inferior court purgatory.

Reason · Jul 2, 2024

John Roberts: Federalist Revisionist and Judicial Supremacist

The Chief Justice retconned Federalist Nos. 37 and 78.

Reason · Jun 30, 2024

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Reason · Jun 27, 2024

Six Points About Law and Equity in SEC v. Jarkesy

In SEC v. Jarkesy, Chief Justice Roberts offers the Court's latest opinion on the Seventh Amendment. Although most of the attention will rightly go to the public rights discussion, I want to briefly note and recap a few thing from the Court's Seventh Amendment primer, especially related to law and…

Reason · Jun 27, 2024

Second Amendment Roundup: Rahimi Preserves Bruen

The real dissents are the concurrences by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson.

Reason · Jun 26, 2024

Some Commentary From The Left On Rahimi

I find myself in agreement with Mike Dorf and Linda Greenhouse.

Reason · Jun 26, 2024

Has SCOTUS Replaced One Kind of Unbridled Discretion With Another in Second Amendment Cases?

Although critics say the Court’s current approach is unworkable, it has been undeniably effective at defeating constitutionally dubious gun regulations.

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Reason · Jun 25, 2024

The Supreme Court Isn't As Radical as You Think

There is a great deal of panic surrounding the "extreme" nature of the current Court. But that is often not based in reality.

Reason · Jun 25, 2024

Edited Version of Rahimi for the Barnett/Blackman Supplement

Read each of the opinions in only 33 pages.

Reason · Jun 21, 2024

Some Takeaways from Today's Rahimi Second Amendment Opinions

A few practical thoughts for future cases (all bold emphasis added): [1.] The Court solidly accepts (with only Justice Thomas dissenting) that "the Second Amendment permits the disarmament of individuals who pose a credible threat to the physical safety of others," at least after a judicial finding of such threat.…

Hunter Biden's Gun Conviction May Impact Supreme Court Appeal

Hunter Biden's gun conviction could impact a Supreme Court case on gun restrictions, potentially shaping future interpretations of federal gun laws.

Reason · May 21, 2024

Second Amendment Roundup: Just in Time for the Supreme Court to Consider in Rahimi

The Ninth Circuit invalidates the felon gun ban for non-violent offenses with no Founding-era analogues.

WEKU · Feb 3, 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.

Reason · Nov 28, 2023

Second Amendment Roundup: Concessions by the Government in the Rahimi Oral Argument

Misdemeanants don’t fall within the “not law-abiding” category.

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