The appeals court concluded that the restriction impinges on the right to arms and is not consistent with the historical ...

For most of U.S. history, the second amendment was rarely invoked to challenge laws, until a bank robber used it to justify ownership of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun, launching a legal battle.

Commentary Second Amendment Chaos in the Courts It is now incumbent on the Supreme Court to bring some order to the post-Bruen chaos and confirm that last year's decision did not close the door to ...

Veasley (8th Cir. 2024), we concluded that keeping firearms out of the hands of drug users does not "always violate[] the Second Amendment." Now the question is whether it sometimes can.

Portland-area students have regularly been taking part in protests to lobby for gun reform. During a school walk-out on Wednesday, a Lincoln High School student was injured while counter ...

When it comes to the “right to bear arms,” which the Second Amendment protects, many people fall into one of two camps. Folks in the first camp views those rights as absolute, or close to it.

In 2008, the court ruled for the first time that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to self-defense, but its constitutional rulings since then have been modest in their impact.

We appreciate that a federal judge has correctly struck down an effort in California to sidestep the Second Amendment by placing undue limitations on how many firearms law-abiding Americans can ...

While the Second Amendment protects our constitutional right to bear arms, the current landscape of varying state regulations have created a complex and often contradictory legal environment for ...

Heller that the Second Amendment “protects the possession and use of weapons that are ‘in common use at the time.’” AR-15-type rifles are indisputably in common use.

Demonstrators carry their assault rifles to a Second Amendment protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in ...

The Second Amendment protects Americans right to keep and bear arms. But does it also guarantee that right to non-citizens who are in the country illegally? Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, an illegal ...