“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
Read MoreDavid 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.
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreFTA: 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
Read MoreHave 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
Read MoreA recent series of AmmoLand articles reveals deep divisions between Second Amendment advocates and their perceptions of the National Rifle Association. Comments under the articles show emotional divisions among readers, with the vitriol on display one would generally expect to be reserved for gun-grabbers. I’ve seen some readers complain, they’re tired of reading about this.
Read More“Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. “The government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their
Read More“Now it’s incumbent on pro-gun advocates to block any further advance and remind the American people that gun control belongs in the political scrap heap.” Compromise on our Second Amendment is not blocking. It is the road to advancing the goals of those whose goal is to disarm law-abiding citizens. Anti-gun zealots have shown they
Read MoreGood decisions in some cases, judicial nullification in some others. Federal circuit courts of appeal continue to have an uneven record in enforcing Second Amendment rights. Last week, Lincoln Memorial University‘s Duncan School of Law (in Knoxville, Tenn.) held a Second Amendment symposium. My article Federal Circuit Second Amendment Developments 2018, will be published later
Read MoreNeil Schachte hands me the funniest little gun, a palm-sized snub-nosed weapon. I wrap my fingers around it, admiring the way my nails, painted gold for New Year’s, look next to the metal. A knuckleduster could be held downward and used as a brass knuckle. Or it could be used to shoot someone. Sold for $15
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