Law and the Courts




Ninth Circuit Ignored the Heller Ruling In Order to Uphold California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban

By Larry Keane The second-class treatment of Second Amendment rights continues. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Duncan v. Bonta ruled en banc that California’s ban on standard capacity magazines does not violate the Second…



BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Upholds California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban

By Don Thompson, AP The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned two lower court judges and upheld California’s ban on high-capacity magazines Tuesday in a split decision that may be headed for the U.S….


More Public Defenders Are Supporting Expanded Gun Rights…For Everyone

You say the ironic thing about the selective enforcement of gun laws is it’s precisely the people in the communities that get cracked down on who may have the most justified concern for their personal…


BREAKING: 3 Georgia Men Found Guilty of Murder in Killing of Ahmaud Arbery

By Russ Bynum, AP All three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice. The…



NYT: Rittenhouse Verdict Shows America Has Too Many Guns for Our Current Laws to Handle

The acquittal points to the wide berth the legal system gives to defendants who say they acted out of fear, even if others around them were also afraid. Wisconsin’s rules for self-defense are well within…