Could President Perry carry a gun?
Chris Moody attempts to analyze the issue for The Ticket. The analysis could have been improved by reading the laws of the District of Columbia. Moody describes D.C. as “a city that bans carrying...
View ArticleCongressional hearing on interstate handgun carry reciprocity
On Tuesday I testified before the U.S. House subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, regarding H.R. 822, which would set up a national system of interstate reciprocity for concealed...
View ArticleRight to bear arms lawsuit in Illinois: Professors’ amicus brief
Currently before the Illinois Supreme Court is People v. Aguilar, which raises the question of whether Illinois can, consistently with the Second Amendment, prohibit the carrying of firearms for lawful...
View ArticleHeller Loses Round Two
Today the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit released a divided opinion in Heller v. D.C. . In this case, Dick Heller (of the Supreme Court’s Heller decision) is challenging the Firearms...
View ArticleA quarter century of civil rights progress: Spread of the right to carry
An excellent graph at No Lawyers, Only Guns and Money, shows the story. We’ve come a long way, baby. And there’s still a long way to go. In Illinois, the right to carry is completely forbidden by law....
View ArticleHouse passes interstate handgun carry reciprocity
By a vote of 272 to 154. (The vote on the motion to recommit was 161 to 263). On the final vote, 44 Democrats voted in favor, and 7 Republicans voted against. H.R. 822 now goes to the Senate. In the...
View ArticleLaws about gun ownership in early America
Regarding Eugene Volokh’s post below about an NYU L. Rev. article, “The People” of the Second Amendment: Citizenship and the Right To Bear Arms. I just scanned the article, and there appears to be only...
View ArticleAre people with concealed handgun carry permits a menace to society?
According to the New York Times, the answer seems to be “yes.” An article in yesterday’s Times by Michael Luo collects some anecdotes about misbehavior by a few licensees in North Carolina. The Times...
View ArticleRemote gun detectors
A few weeks ago, the New York Times reported that the NY Police Department was working with the Department of Defense on a remote firearms detector. According to the article, the detectors are...
View ArticleRight to carry victory in Maryland: Woollard v. Sheridan
Earlier today, Maryland federal district Benson Everett Legg decided the case of Woollard v. Sheridan. Plaintiffs on the case are Robert Woollard and the Second Amendment Foundation. The lead attorney...
View ArticleNew textbook: Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights and...
The first law school textbook on the Second Amendment is now available from Aspen Publishers. The co-author are Nick Johnson (Fordham), Michael O’Shea (Oklahoma City), George Mocsary (Connecticut), and...
View ArticleThe Great Gun Control War of the 20th Century — And its Lessons for Gun Laws...
This is the subject of my article in a forthcoming symposium issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal. The article details the political, cultural, social, and legal battles over gun control from the...
View ArticleWeapons Laws of the Russian Federation
For those of who have been waiting for an English translation of Russia’s arms statutes, your wait is over. Independence Institute intern Margot van Loon is the author of the new Issue Paper, Weapons...
View ArticleColorado Consensus on Gun Laws
In an article today for National Review Online, I detail how “Broadly supported post-Columbine reforms balance gun rights and gun control”: After the Columbine High School murders, Colorado enacted...
View ArticleWhat Judge Reinhardt missed
Eugene Volokh’s post below discusses a dissent by the Ninth Circuit’s Judge Reinhardt in a capital sentencing case. Judge Reinhardt accurately states that carrying a gun is a Second Amendment right, to...
View ArticleAmicus brief in Woollard v. Gallagher, Maryland right to bear arms case
Earlier today, I filed an amicus brief in Woollard v. Gallagher, currently scheduled for an expedited hearing around October 23 before the Fourth Circuit. The case is an appeal from the decision of the...
View ArticleLouisiana amendment to strengthen right to arms, on November ballot
In state elections, the most important vote this November will be in Louisiana. A referendum there would significantly strengthen protection of the right to keep and bear arms in the state, and would...
View ArticleMoore v. Madigan, key points
Judge Posner’s opinion for a 2-1 panel of the 7th Circuit. Illinois is the only state which forbids gun carrying in public as a matter of law. There is no provision for the issuance of licenses for...
View ArticleGoldberg & Kopel on Guns and Gun Control
The December 2012 issue of The Atlantic features a lengthy article by Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control).” Though written before the Newton massacre, the article is quite...
View ArticleHow to stop school shootings right now: Abolish pretend “gun-free zones”
Real gun-free zones (enforced by metal detectors backed up by armed security guards) are fine for certain buildings. Pretend gun-free zones (bans on gun carrying by licensed people, but no procedures...
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