UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA Thanks for reading Alan Chwick’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. ALAN JAY CHWICK, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. PAM BONDI, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; and THE UNITED
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Why the “Common Use” Standard is Essential to Jewish Self-Reliance In my recent essay, The Case That Could Rewrite Federal Gun Law, I discussed how the National Firearms Act of 1934 may now be facing what I called a constitutional pincer movement. If the tax that justified the law is effectively reduced to $0, the government may have
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“A court finally applies Bruen, Heller, and Rahimi correctly in a mag ban possession case… And the dissent bizarrely talks about ‘clips’.” On March 5, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued a decision in a case the Department of Justice had previously defended, overturning a possession conviction for an individual who had a
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As I’ve noted here many times, I was born in Toronto, Canada, where my parents emigrated to from the Displaced Persons camp after the Holocaust. My parents left Toronto for California when I was five. I remember a friend in Toronto telling me in the late 1990s that York Mall was filled with hijabed women.
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It’s not too late to become an armed citizen. To paraphrase the late Colonel Jeff Cooper, “Owning a gun no more makes you an armed citizen than owning a guitar makes you a musician.” Not surprisingly, since the jihad attack in Austin, Texas last week and the FBI miraculously finding the courage to declare, potentially, said incident
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This is a longer article, but well worth taking the time to read. Mark W. Smith has a very approachable style and does an excellent job explaining important Second Amendment cases in a way non-lawyers can easily understand. Introduction In the year since New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen[2] was decided, a line of
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“West Virginia Senate President Kills Machine Gun Bill: West Virginia Senate Bill 1071, commonly referred to as the “Machine Gun Bill,” will not proceed in the current legislative session.” In a move that has triggered debate among gun rights advocates and lawmakers, West Virginia Senate Bill 1071, commonly referred to as the “Machine Gun Bill,”
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“What just happened in West Virginia? One minute we’re talking about a bill to legalize the transfer of machine guns, then we’re hearing it’s being passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee only to have it suddenly die. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, and Todd LaNeve of West Virginia Gun Law sit down to
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This is an interesting take on United States v. Hemani. The author highlights a “weird dichotomy”: we treat gun ownership as a supreme individual right, yet the government strips it away based on “collectivism”—placing people into “disfavored categories” (like marijuana users) without any proof of actual dangerousness. The article isn’t just about the Second Amendment;
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How Roberts, Brown, and Jensen are challenging a 90-year-old federal law and why it matters to Jewish self-defense. If you’ve followed Jews Can Shoot for any length of time, you understand something that gets lost in a lot of mainstream gun debates: for Jewish Americans, the right to armed self-defense isn’t abstract. It’s historical. It’s personal. And
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