Firearms Research Center Receives Major Donation to Advance Second Amendment Research

As gun owners, we are used to reading stoies about this rich leftist donor or that wealthy celebrity making donations to groups that purport to perform non-partiisan gun research only to mill out anti-gun rhetoric masked as research. But the recently created Firearms Research Center (FRC) at the University of Wyoming College of Law actually … Read more

A Front Row Seat to History—D.C. vs. Heller

On March 18, 2008, the Second Amendment hung in the judicial balance. That morning, the U.S. Supreme Court would hear oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller. The question was stark: is the Second Amendment “right to keep and bear Arms” an ordinary individual right? Or would the Court hold that the Second Amendment … Read more

CCRKBA Submits Amicus Brief in California Gun Show Ban Case

As California legislators, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, continue to try to dance around the Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling and insist on stifling Second Amendment freedoms in the Golden State, lawsuits continue to fly. Most recently, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) has submitted an amicus brief to the … Read more

NRA Finds Constitutional Friends Amid Legal Woes

If you read everything in the news of late and even talk to some gun rights supporters, you know NRA has been having a host of fits on a number of legal and organizational fronts and have quite a few forces aligned against them even from within the gun community. New York Attorney General Letitia … Read more

Kopel: Why Does Colorado Allow Law Enforcement to Carry the Tools of Mass Killers?

The magazine ban attempts to divorce today’s common arms of law-abiding citizens from today’s common arms of law enforcement officers, including sheriffs and their deputies. The divorce, contrary to the wishes of both parties, endangers citizens and officers alike. The arms of ordinary law enforcement officers are carefully selected for only one purpose: lawful defense … Read more

Kopel: Relax…People in New Jersey Can Handle Gun Rights Just Like Everyone Else

Don’t worry about the doomsday scenarios propounded by opponents of the right to bear arms. The right is already respected in 42 states, and that data show that licensed carriers have a minuscule crime rate, approximately the same as law enforcement officers. If the rights of the people of New Jersey are restored, there’s no … Read more

Kopel: The Second Amendment Meant No Person in the U.S. Could Be a Slave

Just a few weeks after the Confederate States surrendered at Appomattox, Frederick Douglass declared: Now, while the black man can be denied a vote, while the Legislatures of the South can take from him the right to keep and bear arms, as they can—they would not allow a negro to walk with a cane where … Read more

Coloradans Bracing for the January 1 Effective Date of the State’s ‘Red Flag’ Law

  Happy new year, Colorado. “What has been different about Colorado is the response amongst some within the state and the level of concern about due process in Colorado is certainly something that we haven’t seen in other places around the country,” she said. [University of Denver law professor David] Kopel said that from his … Read more