Gun rights at the Supreme Court: Justices will consider if the fundamental right to keep a gun at home applies to carrying weapons in public By Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell The Supreme Court is…
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…
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…
According to the public defender groups, New York’s [gun control] scheme has had predictably “brutal” consequences for their clients. They have been “stopped, questioned, and frisked,” “forcibly removed” from their homes, locked up…
New York is arguing the entire Empire State is like a government building and should be a huge gun-free zone where only criminals and the privileged can bear arms. The state then defends its unconstitutional…
Despite Scalia’s professed methodology, we can also understand his opinion for the majority [in D.C. v. Heller] as an example of the modern understanding of the right to keep and bear arms, itself heavily…
In one of the cases before the court, a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in 2005 challenged the ban on purchasing or owning a gun. In another, a Pennsylvania woman…
“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,…
The NRA has been relentless in its campaign to create an alternate history regarding guns and the myth that the Constitution somehow guarantees individual gun rights. Only a few decades ago, such notions were considered an…