1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (511+ words) It's no surprise that Everytown for Gun Safety isn't happy with the Trump administration taking the position that bans on AR-15s and other centerfire semi-automatic rifles are unconstitutional. If the Viramontes case was playing out at the Supreme Court during…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (428+ words) If, as expected, the Supreme Court strikes down bans on so-called assault weapons when it issues its verdict in Viramontes v. Cook County next year, the gun control lobby isn't just going to give up on its efforts to make AR…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (435+ words) The onslaught of amicus briefs in the Viramontes case created a bonanza of solid rhetoric. One penned by attorney Daniel Schmutter takes a head-on approach to issues with flawed logic. Since the High Court has agreed to hear Viramontes and…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (412+ words) Did Texas Democrat James Talarico just have his "Beto" moment? Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke famously declared that "hell yes" he was coming for AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles during his brief run for president in 2019. O'Rourke tried backing away from…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (338+ words) We've been waiting for years for something like Viramontes to come before the Supreme Court. While a few years ago, the outcome might have been more in doubt, the Supreme Court of today looks little like the one that decided…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (386+ words) It's been four years since the Supreme Court struck down "may issue" concealed carry licensing regimes, but some states are still using subjective standards of "suitability" to block some applicants from legally keeping or bearing arms. One of those states…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (353+ words) The cases of Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins are, in essence, one and the same. They challenge assault weapon bans in Illinois and Connecticut, respectively, and they're perhaps set to be one of the most important Supreme Court decisions…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (381+ words) It's tough out there for anti-gunners these days. Gun ownership is up, homicides are down dramatically, and violent crime overall is trending in the right direction as well. Those are all things worth cheering, but for the gun control lobby…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (489+ words) The operative part of the Second Amendment is "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Yet bearing arms — the act of actually carrying them on your person — is treated like a privilege in…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (332+ words) The amicus brief submitted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Viramontes case claims to be in support of neither the plaintiffs nor the defenders of "assault weapon" bans, which is an odd take considering what the…...