Public Defenders Back Bruen Decision’s Elimination of a Racist Gun Control Law
By Jennifer Peltz, AP
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York's tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists.
But some public defenders, often allies of progressive activists,...
Bump Stock Bans May Be the First to Fall After Bruen
The earthquake that rumbled across the legal landscape yesterday as a result of the Supreme Court's New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen ruling is only just beginning to be really felt. Yes,...
After Bruen, NY State Bar Association Vows to Work to Continue to Violate New...
New York’s common sense and century-old law on concealed carry permits struck an appropriate balance between preserving Second Amendment rights and preventing weapons from being procured by those who should not have them. The...
NYSRPA v. Bruen Finally Gives Gun Owners What They’ve Been Waiting For
By LKB
That popping sound you may have heard at 10:41 AM Eastern this morning was thousands of anti-2A minds being blown simultaneously. The wailing you've been hearing since that's emanating from various liberal neighborhoods,...
BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down New York’s ‘May Issue’ Concealed Carry Law
The United States Supreme Court has struck down New York's "proper cause" or "may issue" requirement for obtaining concealed carry permits in a 6 to 3 opinion handed down today in New York State...
City of Brooklyn Center Agrees to Pay Daunte Wright’s Family $3.2 Million in Wrongful...
From the Associated Press . . .
A suburban Minneapolis city has agreed to pay $3.2 million to the family of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a police officer who said she confused...
Wehle: To Do Something About Guns, We Need the Courts to Ignore the Law...
One way to address negative externalities is for the government to intervene through subsidies, taxes, or legal constraints on the producer. But when it comes to guns, Republican legislators are overwhelmingly unwilling to take...
Happy Ending: New York’s High Court Rules an Elephant in the Bronx Zoo is...
New York’s highest court -- the New York Court of Appeals -- rejected by a 5-2 decision the anti-hunting group Nonhuman Rights Project’s (NhRP) lawsuit claiming Happy the Elephant isn’t an animal and instead had...
Amanda Marcotte Tells Us She Doesn’t Understand How the Law Works Without Telling Us...
Among the many decisions where the court will likely go full Infowars is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a challenge to New York's law requiring people seeking a concealed carry license to demonstrate...
Congress Considers More Security for Judges After Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt
By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko, AP
A man armed with a machete once broke into Stephen Breyer's vacation home in the Caribbean and took $1,000. Ruth Bader Ginsburg had her purse snatched on a...
Would-Be Assassin Was Worried Justice Kavanaugh Would Loosen Gun Control Laws
Nicholas John Roske, the armed man who was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house early this morning, said he'd been thinking about how to give his life purpose. After cogitating on that...
Man With a Gun Arrested Outside Justice Kavanaugh’s House, Said He Intended to Kill...
By Mark Sherman and Michael Balsamo, AP
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an armed man (not pictured above) who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's house in Maryland.
The man...