Judge Robert L. Miller: It’s an Insult to the Founders to Assume They Didn’t Expect Gun Control in Future Generations

Several judges have expressed concern about the effects of the Supreme Court’s [Bruen] decision. In Indiana, Judge Robert L. Miller wrote in one opinion issued in a gun case that he had “an earnest hope” that he had misunderstood the Supreme Court ruling. “If not, most of the body of law Congress has developed to … Read more

Santiago: New York’s New Concealed Carry Law is Full Of Booby Traps the State is Bound to Step In

[California’s] SB 918 is a copycat bill closely following the template of the State of New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA) that was railroaded to passage earlier this year following the Supreme Court decision to gut the discretionary issue permit laws of New York and other states, including California. New York’s angry response was … Read more

When Public Defenders Acknowledge the Second Amendment’s Second Class Status

With respect to the legal arguments, under whatever level of scrutiny you use, what is happening in New York cannot possibly be consistent with a constitutional right. There are no other constitutional rights for which the government gets to decide, in its own discretion, whether you get to exercise it at all. Even rights that … Read more

May Issue Permitting Can’t Survive an Accurate Reading of Text, History and Tradition

Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which is expected to produce the Court’s first major Second Amendment decision in over a decade. MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms participated in a live blog during argument, and a panel discussion held afterwards. Earlier this year, we filed … Read more