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Court: Second Amendment Protects Switchblade Rights

Massachusetts ban dating from 1957 struck down

(Newser) - Residents of Massachusetts are now free to arm themselves with switchblades after a 67-year-old restriction was struck down following the US Supreme Court's 2022 landmark decision on gun rights and the Second Amendment. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision on Tuesday applied new guidance from the Bruen decision, which...

SCOTUS Sidesteps New Gun Cases
SCOTUS Sidesteps
New Gun Cases
Jul 2, 2024 5:18 PM CDT

SCOTUS Sidesteps New Gun Cases

Top court won't hear challenge to Illinois assault weapons ban

(Newser) - The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden. The moves came after the justices...

Supreme Court Flips Trump-Era Ban on Bump Stocks

A 6-3 ruling on gun accessory says Trump administration didn't follow federal law

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. The high court found 6-3 that the Trump administration didn't follow...

New Rule Closes 'Gun Show Loophole'
New Rule Closes
'Gun Show Loophole'
Apr 11, 2024 8:32 AM CDT

New Rule Closes 'Gun Show Loophole'

It means more sellers will have to conduct background checks

(Newser) - Thousands more firearms dealers across the US will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect. The rule aims to close what is known as the "gun...

Federal Judge Strikes Down Billy Club Law

He says California law violates redefined Second Amendment

(Newser) - A federal judge has struck down a California law banning possession of club-like weapons, reversing his previous ruling from three years ago that upheld the prohibition on billy clubs, batons, and similar blunt objects. US District Judge Roger Benitez ruled last week that the prohibition "unconstitutionally infringes the Second...

Hawaii Supreme Court Quotes The Wire in Gun Rights Ruling

'The thing about the old days, they the old days' was first heard on the HBO show

(Newser) - "What's past is past" was the underlying message, sort of, of a ruling this week from Hawaii's Supreme Court, though its decision cited a different famous quote from a popular TV series to get its point across. CBS News and the AP report that the state's...

Federal Judge Calls California Gun Law 'Repugnant'

He blocks law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places

(Newser) - A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the US Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones. The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom...

SCOTUS Hears Domestic Violence Gun Ban Case

Justices seemed likely to allow gun ban for people under restraining orders

(Newser) - The Supreme Court expanded gun rights in a major decision last year—but in a case before the court on Tuesday, justices seemed less inclined to protect gun rights for people under domestic violence restraining orders. During arguments in the court's first major Second Amendment case since last year'...

Albuquerque Police Chief Balks at Governor's Emergency Order

After shootings, New Mexico's Michelle Lujan Grisham suspends open, concealed carry in city

(Newser) - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days after a spate of gun violence. The Democratic governor said she expects legal challenges but was compelled to act...

SCOTUS Rarely Takes On 2A Cases, but One's Coming Up

Justices agree to review whether government can bar domestic abusers from having guns

(Newser) - The Supreme Court wrapped up its latest term this week with high-profile rulings involving affirmative action , LGBTQ+ and religious rights , and student loan debt , and now it's looking ahead to its next roster of cases, including one that's sure to draw the attention of both gun safety and...

Judge: Taking Guns From Pot Smokers Unconstitutional

Jared Michael Harrison wins his federal case in Oklahoma

(Newser) - A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional, the latest challenge to firearms regulations after the US Supreme Court's conservative majority set new standards for reviewing the nation's gun laws. Lawyers for Jared Michael Harrison...

Alito Sends Message to Gun Law Opponents

Court lets New York restrictions stand for now

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block New York state restrictions on carrying concealed firearms, though two justices encouraged the law's opponents to not give up their fight. The law is being challenged, with the case now before the federal appeals court in New York, and the justices...

Firm Parts With Lawyers Who Won Gun Case

Kirkland & Ellis would work with ex-partners 'in matters not involving the Second Amendment'

(Newser) - The world's largest law firm made changes as soon as two of its partners won a major victory from the Supreme Court in a New York case expanding gun rights on Thursday, deciding that won't happen again. Paul Clement and Erin Murphy are out, Kirkland & Ellis announced....

Biden Gets 4 Pinocchios Over Cannon Claim
Biden Gets 4 Pinocchios
for 2nd Amendment Claim
analysis
Jun 28, 2021 12:34 PM CDT

Biden Gets 4 Pinocchios for 2nd Amendment Claim

He said it banned citizens from owning cannons

(Newser) - President Biden claimed last week that the Second Amendment, "from the day it was passed," limited what kind of weapon you could own and that "you couldn't buy a cannon." Biden has made this claim before, but historians and fact-checkers including Glenn Kessler at the...

Judge Compares AR-15 to Swiss Army Knife in Assault Weapons Ruling

US District Judge Roger Benitez overturns Calif.'s 30-year-old assault weapons ban

(Newser) - A federal judge Friday overturned California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. US District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled that the state's definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most...

Supreme Court Takes Major Gun Rights Case

It involves the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense

(Newser) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. The case marks the court's first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett...

DC Police Respond to Lawmaker Who Wants to Carry Glock

Lauren Boebert 'will be subjected to the same penalties as anyone else' if necessary

(Newser) - Newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert wants to bring her gun with her to Washington, DC , and now DC's police chief is weighing in. Chief Robert Contee III, asked during a press conference about Boebert's desire to carry, said he would make sure "she is aware of the...

LA County Sheriff Drops Effort to Close Gun Stores

Villanueva ordered shutdown last week

(Newser) - Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who was sued by gun-rights groups after trying to shut down firearms dealers in the wake of coronavirus concerns, said Monday that he is abandoning the effort. The sheriff said he's heeding a federal Department of Homeland Security advisory issued on Saturday that...

Dad of Parkland Shooting Victim Booted From SOTU

After 'rough night,' Fred Guttenberg apologizes for shouting out

(Newser) - President Trump spoke on gun rights at his Tuesday State of the Union address , vowing to "always protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms." At least one person in the crowd didn't appreciate his remarks and very vocally made that known: That would be...

Pro-Gun Rally Brings Thousands to Richmond
Pro-Gun Rally Brings
Thousands to Richmond
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Jan 20, 2020 11:11 AM CST

Pro-Gun Rally Brings Thousands to Richmond

Large protest underway in Virginia

(Newser) - Gun-rights supporters gathered en masse at Virginia's state Capitol in Richmond Monday, and things have been peaceful in the early going. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the march, which is taking place amid a heavy police presence and temperatures in the 20s. "...

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