Firearms Policy Coalition Sues Texas Over 3 ‘Sensitive Places’ Carry Bans
The Firearms Policy Coalition has filed suit attacking three of Texas’s ‘sensitive places’ carry bans; businesses that serve alcohol, racetracks, and sporting events.
Law and the Courts
Petrolino on The Prevalence of Systemic Racism in the New Jersey Gun Permitting Process
Today we’re going to talk about New Jersey issuing permits to carry post-Bruen, subjective standards, and denial rates of permits to carry. We’re going to be looking at the black versus the white denial rates.
Warren Burger Got it Wrong: 19th Century Sources Confirm the 2A Protects an Individual Right
Justice Burger was ignorant of (or lied about) an overwhelming number of historical sources from before 1900 that confirm the Second Amendment was always understood to recognize an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Smith & Wesson Announces Its First 2A Research and Writing Competition With Cash Prizes
Any law student at an accredited law school is eligible to research and write a scholarly article on one of three Bruen-related topics. S&W is offering cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000 for the top three submissions.
Another Public Housing Authority Is Slapped Down for Its Unconstitutional Gun Ban
“At some point,” SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut observed, “it should become abundantly clear to various public housing authorities that gun bans are not allowed.”
Need Another Reason to Vote? The Supreme Court and Gun Rights are On the Ballot
Since the lawmakers couldn’t make an end-run around the Court, their plan now is to “reimagine” it, not as a co-equal branch of government but one that’s subservient to the legislative branch’s whims.
Pro-Gun Decision More Popular Than Supreme Court
Depending on where you sit politically, there’s good news and bad news about the Supreme Court according to a recent
Shooting Survivors Using Copyright Law to Ensure Victims are Remembered
In June, a survivor of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was granted copyright over the shooter’s name, thereby preventing its reproduction without permission.
SCOTUS Overturns PA Ruling Allowing 18 to 20-Year-Olds to Carry Guns
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling from Pennsylvania that allowed residents under 21 to carry firearms in public, though the justices declined for now to hear arguments in the case themselves.
Ted Cruz Backs the Gun Industry in the Supreme Court and Rolling Stone Is Very Unhappy About It
The Texas senator has spearheaded — along with other far-right Congress members like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — an amicus brief, or friend-of-the-court filing, that reads more a friend-of-the-gun-industry beef.