The Supreme Court will hear arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen tomorrow morning beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. TTAG will have full coverage both during and following the session. We’ll…
Gun rights advocates argue their constitutional rights are being infringed. Erik Jaffe, an attorney for Schaerr Jaffe who represents the Firearms Policy Coalition, which submitted a brief in this case, said people treat Second Amendment rights differently…
If you didn’t already have it marked on your calendar, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen on Wednesday, November 3. The matter…
There is room for looking at the lethality of modern firearms when considering the constitutionality of gun regulation. The court implicitly acknowledged this in its Heller decision when it stated that machine gun bans were acceptable. It’s a difficult…
Can the government stop you from carrying a concealed handgun in public? That’s the question before the United States Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen: “Whether the Second Amendment…
“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…
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,…
In another of Heller’s odd intellectual moves, Scalia read the Second Amendment backwards, and in the process effectively erased the text’s preamble. To justify this unusual reading strategy, an interpretive approach that Stevens reminded his colleagues on the bench…
The Duke Center for Firearms Law had a few comments on the Corlett carry permit case recently taken up by the United States Supreme Court: The case–New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett–centers…
As you’d expect, Second Amendment orgs are pleased that the US Supreme Court is willing to take another Second Amendment case, a year after punting the opportunity last year. As the Second Amendment Foundation writes…