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Heller, McDonald and Bruen are Affecting How State Legislatures View Pending Gun Control Legislation

[Heller and McDonald] allowed opponents to wage new battles against longstanding gun laws. When District Judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s 34-year-old assault weapons ban two years ago, he pointed to Heller, saying that under the…


Diakun: Collecting Carry Permit Applicants’ Social Media Data is the First Step on a Slippery Slope

This dragnet collection of social media information by the government has a chilling effect on [concealed carry permit] applicants’ exercise of their right to speak and associate with others online. The statute requires a list…


Judge Bumb: Attorneys Didn’t Tell the Whole Story in Their Defense of New Jersey’s Gun Control Laws

In the New York ruling known as Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court justices established a new test for Second Amendment cases, focused on whether there’s a historic precedent for the regulation in contention. So Friday, the opposing…



After Bruen, Lower Courts Are Still Coming Up With ‘Creative’ Ways to Prolong the Inevitable

Resistance. We use this term in different senses when discussing lower court decisions. One, courts might resist the fact of the Bruen decision itself or they might read the decision in a manner that resists…


Dems Sell Gun Control as Reducing Crime, Promoting Safety, but Data Shows it Just Ain’t So

While the Democrats’ package came partially in response to last year’s mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, researchers agree that it is difficult to measure policies’ effectiveness in reducing mass shootings. While highly visible, mass…


Sen. Chris Murphy: Why Aren’t We Talking About Confiscation as a Way to ‘Deal With’ Ubiquitous Gun Ownership?

There is no way to address the homicide, suicide and mass shooting epidemic in this nation without dealing with this massive explosion of guns in the United States. pic.twitter.com/bT2d8zwIcO — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 7,…


New Mexico’s Push for More Gun Control is Tempered by the Reality of the Bruen Ruling

New Mexico’s Senate Judiciary Committee gathered recently to figure out how much latitude they had to regulate guns after last year’s bombshell Second Amendment ruling from the Supreme Court. Most sounded confused. Some seemed unaware…


Taft: Why is it ‘Cartel Violence’ When It’s South of the Border, But It’s ‘Gun Violence’ Here?

As you are well aware, the [west coast] is among the most confused and Leftist areas of the country. Confused because Washington, Oregon, and California have made themselves sanctuaries for all manner of lawbreakers by…