12+ hour, 27+ min 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…...

15+ hour, 32+ min ago   (576+ words) The Second Amendment continues to be an issue before the current U.S. Supreme Court, after decades of prior courts refusing to hear such cases. And not surprisingly, most of the current cases stem from blue states trying to restrict gun rights....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (669+ words) That provision, which Congress enacted as part of the Gun Control Act in 1968, applies to anyone who has been convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of incarceration. The original version made it a felony for such…...

2+ day, 9+ 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…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (423+ words) With sentence-level choices, Gorsuch immediately revealed that Hemani would prevail. We read that Hemani used marijuana “a few times a week.” But based on that fact alone, the government sought to “disarm him for life.” With this windup, Gorsuch asked…...

2+ day, 16+ 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…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (12+ words) Supreme Court’s VanDerStok decision didn’t resolve the vagueness and Second Amendment challenges....

3+ day, 12+ 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…...

4+ day, 56+ min ago   (557+ words) Property rights are defined in many ways. It often happens that academics who are interested in the scope, regulation, or protection of private property rights debate endlessly at cross purposes because they do not share the same definition of property…...

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