“The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday took up its biggest gun rights case in nearly a decade, agreeing to hear a challenge backed by the influential National Rifle Association lobby group to New York City’s strict limits on handgun owners transporting their firearms outside of the home. “The nine justices will review a 2018
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David Kopel on first gun case to be heard by the Supreme Court in a decade. For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court has voted to hear argument in a Second Amendment case. Although the schedule has not been set, oral argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc.
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In September 2018, the U.S. Army awarded Angstadt Arms a contract to supply ultra concealable 9mm sub-machine guns for the purpose of protecting high risk personnel (HRP). To address this operational need, personnel security detail required a weapon with greater lethality than pistols but more conceal-ability than rifles. The ultimate objective being a highly concealable
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FTA: After nearly a decade and numerous denials, the U.S. Supreme Court will jump back into Second Amendment gun regulations. Is Justice Brett Kavanaugh the reason? “It’s hard not to think that Kavanaugh’s replacement of Justice [Anthony] Kennedy was key here,” said Second Amendment scholar Adam Winkler of UCLA Law School. “The court has turned
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Have you ever taken a map, a paper one, marked your home’s location and gone through it with great care and made an area threat/asset map? If there were a natural disaster, a SHTF or TEOTWAWKI event is there an earthen dam up-slope from your home? A chemical plant that could be up-wind? A zoo
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