Peruta v. California: The Supreme Court’s Next Big Gun Case?
Edward Peruta is a litigious Vietnam veteran who spends part of each year living out of a trailer home in San Diego. Neil Gorsuch is a conservative Coloradan with impeccable Ivy League judicial...
View ArticleLas Vegas Survivors Sue Manufacturers of Bump Stocks
Three people who attended the country music festival where a gunman killed 58 and injured hundreds more last week in Las Vegas have filed a lawsuit against manufacturers of bump stocks, devices that...
View ArticleWhen Does Openly Carrying a Gun at a Protest Become a Criminal Act?
When Dwayne Dixon heard that Ku Klux Klan demonstrators were preparing to march through downtown Durham, North Carolina, on August 18, he grabbed his semiautomatic rifle and set off to join a group of...
View ArticleWhat the Sandy Hook Lawsuit Could Mean for the Gun Industry
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on March 15 that family members of nine victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre can go to trial against Remington, the maker of the rifle used in the attack, and...
View ArticleWhat the SCOTUS Move Means for the Sandy Hook Lawsuit — and the Gun Industry
On November 12, the Supreme Court declined to hear Remington’s challenge to a lawsuit by families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The gunmaker appealed to the...
View ArticleSCOTUS Is Hearing Its First Big Gun Case in 9 Years. Here’s How It Might Play...
On December 2, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a major gun rights case for the first time in almost a decade. The case was brought in 2013 by the New York Pistol and Rifle Association, an...
View ArticleWhen Protestors Carry Guns, Does It Impede Others’ Free Speech?
In late January, thousands of pro-gun activists descended on Richmond, Virginia, to protest a package of gun reform bills advancing through the state General Assembly. Many of them were armed. The...
View ArticleAnother Trump Supreme Court Appointment Could Tip the Balance on Gun Cases
During the Trump era, an increasingly right-leaning Supreme Court has repeatedly declined opportunities to expand gun rights. Just this year, the justices voted against including 10 different Second...
View ArticleOn Gun Laws, Barrett’s Philosophy Leaves Little Room for Public Safety
With President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to take Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court, it looks like Second Amendment jurisprudence is in for a major revamp....
View ArticleThe Gun Rights Rhetoric That Helped Seed the Insurrectionist Mindset
A mob of hundreds of ardent Trump supporters breached the nation’s Capitol on January 6 to halt the certification of electoral votes from November’s election and keep the president in power. Some of...
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