Heller, McDonald and Bruen are Affecting How State Legislatures View Pending Gun Control Legislation

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allowed opponents to wage new battles against longstanding gun laws. When District Judge Roger Benitez overturned California’s 34-year-old assault weapons ban two years ago, he pointed to Heller, saying that under the decision,...
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Diakun: Collecting Carry Permit Applicants’ Social Media Data is the First Step on a...

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This dragnet collection of social media information by the government has a chilling effect on applicants’ exercise of their right to speak and associate with others online. The statute requires a list of...
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Judge Bumb: Attorneys Didn’t Tell the Whole Story in Their Defense of New Jersey’s...

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In the New York ruling known as Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court justices established a new test for Second Amendment cases, focused on whether there’s a historic precedent for the regulation in contention. So Friday, the opposing...
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Figliuzzi: This is How the Feds Should Dragoon Local LEOs Into Helping Enforce Their...

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We need the Justice Department to use its power of the purse and offer incentives for local, county and state agencies to abide by their state’s red flag laws and, just as importantly, disincentives when they...
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After Bruen, Lower Courts Are Still Coming Up With ‘Creative’ Ways to Prolong the...

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Resistance. We use this term in different senses when discussing lower court decisions. One, courts might resist the fact of the Bruen decision itself or they might read the decision in a manner that...
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Dems Sell Gun Control as Reducing Crime, Promoting Safety, but Data Shows it Just...

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While the Democrats’ package came partially in response to last year’s mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, researchers agree that it is difficult to measure policies’ effectiveness in reducing mass shootings. While highly visible,...
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Sen. Chris Murphy: Why Aren’t We Talking About Confiscation as a Way to ‘Deal...

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There is no way to address the homicide, suicide and mass shooting epidemic in this nation without dealing with this massive explosion of guns in the United States. pic.twitter.com/bT2d8zwIcO — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 7,...

New Mexico’s Push for More Gun Control is Tempered by the Reality of the...

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New Mexico’s Senate Judiciary Committee gathered recently to figure out how much latitude they had to regulate guns after last year’s bombshell Second Amendment ruling from the Supreme Court. Most sounded confused. Some seemed unaware...
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Taft: Why is it ‘Cartel Violence’ When It’s South of the Border, But It’s...

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As you are well aware, the is among the most confused and Leftist areas of the country. Confused because Washington, Oregon, and California have made themselves sanctuaries for all manner of lawbreakers by...
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Sullum: Conservatives’ Attitudes About Marijuana Prohibition Beginning to Align With Their Attitudes About Gun...

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The marijuana that alarmed Yanez also figured in public comments about the shooting by Dana Loesch, a conservative radio host who at the time was a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association...

Louisville PD: A Firearm Instructor Accidentally Shooting a Recruit Constitutes a ‘Serious Training Failure’

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INBOX: A Louisville Metro Police Department says firearm instructor "discharged his weapon, and a bullet struck a recruit during a training exercise. The recruit was struck in his bullet resistant vest and appeared to...
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This is What It’s Like to be Shot By an AK-47

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We had just walked into the middle of a Fedayeen bank robbery. I headed for the side of a building and walked quickly towards where the explosion had gone off.  'Northern Ireland all over again,' I...