A constitutional right belongs to the individual. Why should the exercise of the Second Amendment right to bear arms become a criminal offense simply because that individual crosses a jurisdictional boundary? An Oklahoma National Guardsman deployed to Washington, D.C. was pulled over for an expired car registration, where police then found a pistol that wasn’t
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I’ve always believed the beginning of California’s political decline was the 2003 recall election. The GOP chose Arnold Schwarzenegger over Tom McClintock, a more conservative alternative, and in my view, that was the beginning of the California Republican Party abandoning the very voters it needed to compete. I lived in California most of my life.
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Are constitutional rights truly national rights if exercising them can be lawful in one state and result in years of imprisonment in another simply because of where an American lives? Albany, New York resident Demetrio Daga is currently facing 40 years in a state prison, but if he had lived in Florida, Texas, Georgia or
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Put electronic 4473s together with a system that gives ATF automated access to dealers’ electronic transaction records, and you have created the infrastructure for a de facto registration system, regardless of what the government calls it. At the Briefing FFL Compliance Summit last week in Dallas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
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Connecticut attempted to turn a commonly owned, semiautomatic handgun into a legally prohibited “machine gun” based on what it could be converted into—not what it actually is. The court has temporarily stopped them. Connecticut’s ban on Glock and clone sales is on pause after a federal judge blocked the law one day before it was
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The real issue here is whether government can accomplish indirectly, through financial burdens, what it could not accomplish through outright prohibition. A tax may not prohibit gun ownership on paper, but if its purpose is to discourage people from exercising a constitutionally protected right, the *Bruen* historical-tradition test becomes highly relevant. As this article demonstrates,
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