Law and the Courts

One State’s Attorney General Is Taking Aim at ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ Declarations

As Democrats in Washington, D.C. continue to push their anti-gun legislation, states and counties have been fighting back. Local and state officials throughout the nation have passed Second Amendment sanctuary legislation, effectively declaring that state…


Dershowitz: With Crime Increasing, SCOTUS Will Extend Heller to Open and Concealed Carry

“I do think that the justices will take into account the fact that people really need more protection than they used to need,” he said. “Crime is going up dramatically, particularly in inner cities. And…



FPC Files Suit to Block San Diego’s Ban on ‘Ghost Guns’

  The lawsuit, filed by the Firearms Policy Coalition, San Diego County Gun Owners PAC and San Diego residents James Fahr, Desiree Bergman and Colin Rudolph, contends that the ban violates the Second Amendment rights…



ACLU: We Need to Restrict the Second Amendment to Preserve the First

  The America Civil Liberties Union, which has never been able to count to ten and remember to include number two, is apparently unaware that more than 40 states have either shall-issue or some form…


Biden Administration Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting New York’s May Issue Gun Control Law

New York’s longstanding proper-cause requirement does not violate the Second Amendment. A. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, but that right is not absolute. For centuries, legislatures in England,…


California Forced to Re-Open ‘Assault Weapon’ Registration System Beginning January 13, 2022

From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . The California Department of Justice has announced the dates when it will re-open registration of so-called “assault weapons” required by a federal court as a result of…


Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Wants to Reduce the City’s Skyrocketing Crime by Suing Gang Members

  [Chicago Mayor Lori] Lightfoot said she’ll propose an ordinance Monday to allow the city’s lawyers to file such lawsuits [against gang members]. She said her proposed anti-gang ordinance isn’t her way of bypassing Cook…


Dershowitz: How To Use The New Texas Abortion Law To Choke Off Gun Sales

Maybe the professor isn’t familiar with the Protection of Legal Commerce in Arms Act . . . Consider this out-of-the-box proposal: Liberal, pro-gun-control states could apply the Texas bounty approach to gun control. New York…