Second Amendment Will SCOTUS Resolve the Circuit Split on a Law That Disarms People With Nonviolent Criminal Records? Steven Duarte is one of several petitioners who are asking the justices to address the constitutionality of that absurdly broad gun ban. Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2025 4:45 PM
Second Amendment New Jersey Cops Took His Guns Because They Were Worried About His Wife's Mental Health Elsid Aliaj says the seizure violated state law and the Second Amendment. Jacob Sullum | 11.4.2025 4:15 PM
Second Amendment Trump, an Avowed Second Amendment Champion, Defends a Gun Ban With 'No Historical Justification' His administration is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a prosecution for violating a federal law that bars illegal drug users from owning firearms. Jacob Sullum | 10.29.2025 12:01 AM
Second Amendment SCOTUS Will Consider the Constitutionality of the Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Illegal Drug Users The law applies to millions of Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety, including cannabis consumers in states that have legalized marijuana. Jacob Sullum | 10.20.2025 4:05 PM
Guns California's Latest Dumb Gun Law is a Ban on Glocks According to California lawmakers, Kamala Harris’s pistol is a potential machinegun. J.D. Tuccille | 10.17.2025 7:00 AM
Second Amendment The NRA Supports SCOTUS Petitioners Who Lost Their Gun Rights Because of Nonviolent Offenses The cases give the justices a chance to address a constitutionally dubious policy that disarms peaceful Americans. Jacob Sullum | 10.15.2025 12:01 AM
Gun Control 2 Controversies Over Political Rhetoric Illustrate the Perils of Blaming Gun Control Critics for Murder That strategy, which rejects the possibility of sincere disagreement, is poisonous to rational debate. Jacob Sullum | 10.9.2025 4:30 PM
Second Amendment SCOTUS Will Consider a Challenge to Hawaii's Default Rule Against Guns on Private Property Open to the Public The law is one of several attempts to override the right to bear arms by making it impractical to exercise. Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2025 4:25 PM
Second Amendment The 9th Circuit Overturns a Man's Conviction for Holding a Shotgun on the Sidewalk in Front of His House The decision, which hinges on an exception to the Gun-Free School Zones Act, does not say whether that law is consistent with the Second Amendment. Jacob Sullum | 9.25.2025 1:55 PM
Gun Control Why Banning Drugs and Guns Never Works Reason’s Jacob Sullum traces the shared failures of drug prohibition and gun laws, showing how both undermine civil liberties, racial justice, and commonsense safety. Jacob Sullum | 9.16.2025 1:30 PM
Charlie Kirk No, It Wasn't Ironic That Second Amendment Advocate Charlie Kirk Was Shot All liberty involves tradeoffs. So does repressing liberty. J.D. Tuccille | 9.15.2025 7:00 AM
Second Amendment Florida's Ban on Openly Carrying Guns Is Unconstitutional, State Appeals Court Rules A unanimous three-judge panel concluded that "no historical tradition supports" the 1987 law. Jacob Sullum | 9.11.2025 1:10 PM
Second Amendment The Trump Administration's Half-Baked Plan To Disarm Transgender People Is Legally Bankrupt Such a gun ban is not authorized by statute or allowed by the Second Amendment. Jacob Sullum | 9.10.2025 12:01 AM
Second Amendment Major Gun-Rights Groups Oppose the Trump Administration's Idea To Ban Trans People From Owning Guns The NRA says it won't support "any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process." C.J. Ciaramella | 9.6.2025 12:12 PM
2nd Amendment Walz's Gun Plan Wouldn't Stop Shootings, but It Might Shred Civil Liberties Minnesota's proposed firearm restrictions raise serious constitutional questions—and offer little in return. Jacob R. Swartz | 9.5.2025 5:20 PM
Second Amendment The Proposed Ban on Gun Possession by Transgender People Would Be Neither Legal Nor Constitutional The Justice Department reportedly is considering a regulation aimed at disarming "mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria." Jacob Sullum | 9.4.2025 8:50 PM
Second Amendment She Wrote a Bad Check 17 Years Ago and Still Can't Own Guns. This Trump Order Could Help People Like Her. The Justice Department has proposed a pathway to restore gun rights for millions of Americans. Jacob Sullum | 9.4.2025 6:00 AM
Second Amendment The Gun-Free School Zones Act Is Doubly Dubious The federal law relies on a risible reading of the Commerce Clause to restrict a constitutional right. Jacob Sullum | 9.3.2025 12:01 AM
Second Amendment The 10th Circuit Agrees That Prosecuting Cannabis Consumers for Gun Possession May Be Unconstitutional The appeals court rejected most of the arguments in favor of that policy, saying "the government must show non-intoxicated marijuana users pose a risk of future danger." Jacob Sullum | 8.28.2025 4:15 PM
weapons Zombie Knives Don't Kill People, but Banning Them Kills Liberty Britain’s crackdown on “zombie-style” knives shows how politicians blame objects instead of criminals—and how bans only hurt the law-abiding. Reem Ibrahim | 8.28.2025 1:21 PM
Religion Maybe Prayer Isn't Bullshit Plus: Beware of distorted data, inside the mind of Curtis Sliwa, a thong-related clarification, and more... Liz Wolfe | 8.28.2025 9:30 AM
Second Amendment The 11th Circuit Revives a Constitutional Challenge to the Federal Law That Disarms Medical Marijuana Patients The appeals court concluded that the government had failed to show that policy is consistent with "this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." Jacob Sullum | 8.25.2025 8:00 AM
Gun Rights Court Kills California's One-Gun-a-Month Law There’s no historical precedent for trying to ration constitutionally protected rights. J.D. Tuccille | 8.18.2025 7:00 AM
Gun Control Lower Crime Hasn't Stopped Gun Control Push Plus: The National Guard deployed to D.C., the Trump-Putin meeting on Ukraine, Texas Democrats flee the state, and a listener question on free speech in the U.K. Reem Ibrahim | 8.11.2025 5:14 PM
Guns Making the World Freer with Homemade Guns DIY firearms aren’t just an end-run around the law; they represent a libertarian political movement. J.D. Tuccille | 8.8.2025 7:00 AM
Mass Shootings The New York Times Says the Manhattan Mass Shooter Was 'Committed,' but That's Not True The same newspaper notes that the killer "obtained a firearm legally," which means he was never "committed" to a mental health institution. Jacob Sullum | 8.7.2025 3:25 PM
Reason Roundup The 'Rigged' Jobs Data Plus: AI reanimations of those who've died, Elizabeth Warren x Zohran Mamdani, and more... Liz Wolfe | 8.5.2025 9:46 AM
Mass Shootings New York's Governor Blames Nevada's 'Weak Gun Laws' for the Manhattan Mass Shooting Kathy Hochul's focus on "assault weapons" is puzzling, since the perpetrator easily could have killed the same number of people with a gun that did not fall into that politically defined category. Jacob Sullum | 7.30.2025 5:00 PM
Gun Rights Eric Adams' Gun Seizures Haven't Reduced the Number of Guns in New York City Despite record seizures and restrictive laws, New York City has struggled to stem the tide of untraceable firearms. Tosin Akintola | 7.29.2025 4:20 PM
Second Amendment Hunter Biden Walks Free While This Iowa Man Serves 4 Years for the Same 'Crime' The contrast between the two cases illustrates the haphazard impact of an arbitrary, constitutionally dubious gun law. Jacob Sullum | 7.21.2025 3:10 PM
Second Amendment The Trump Administration Defends the Federal Ban on Interstate Handgun Sales In response to a Second Amendment lawsuit, the government says the restriction "serves legitimate objectives" and "only modestly burdens" the right to arms. Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2025 2:05 PM
Surveillance Turning Credit Cards into Comprehensive Financial Surveillance New laws on interchange fees will transform credit card payments into detailed government-accessible records of every item purchased, including firearms David Kopel |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.14.2025 2:46 PM
Gun Control Gun Rights Groups Welcome the Demise of Illogical and Constitutionally Dubious Federal Firearm Taxes The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue. Jacob Sullum | 7.7.2025 2:45 PM
Second Amendment Criminal Justice Reformers Should Welcome Pam Bondi's Gun Rights Restoration Initiative Democratic critics of the new program overlook the injustice of permanently disarming Americans who pose no threat to public safety. Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2025 3:15 PM
Gun Control Big Business as Gun Control Partly from coercion and partly by choice, many banks and social media businesses impose severe gun controls David Kopel |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.24.2025 1:32 PM
Second Amendment The 9th Circuit Says California's One-Per-Month Limit on Gun Purchases Is Unconstitutional The appeals court concluded that the restriction impinges on the right to arms and is not consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation. Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2025 1:50 PM
Guns Gun Owners Deserve Freedom To Enjoy the Sound of Silencers Long restricted by federal law, suppressors are poised to be freed by litigation or legislation. J.D. Tuccille | 6.18.2025 7:00 AM
Second Amendment 17 Years Ago, She Lost Her Gun Rights for Passing a Bad Check. She Wants SCOTUS To Rectify That Injustice. Melynda Vincent is asking the justices to decide whether it's constitutional to disarm people based on nothing more than a nonviolent criminal conviction. Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2025 3:00 PM
Self-Defense In Dangerous Times, Train for Self-Defense My wife and I built our defensive skills with six days of sweat, dust, and the right mindset. J.D. Tuccille | 6.2.2025 7:00 AM
Gun Control California Concealed Carry Now Available to Out-of-Staters It’s a small step in the right direction for self-defense rights. J.D. Tuccille | 4.28.2025 7:00 AM
Second Amendment Colorado Will Soon Require a Discretionary Permit To Acquire Semiautomatic Rifles The state may have a hard time showing that its broad restrictions are consistent with the "historical tradition of firearm regulation." Jacob Sullum | 4.15.2025 4:30 PM
Second Amendment Mel Gibson Got His Gun Rights Back, but Millions of Americans With No History of Violence Are Still Waiting The movie star’s special treatment highlights the injustice of an illogical federal law. Jacob Sullum | 4.9.2025 12:01 AM
Guns Supreme Court Lets ATF Regulate (Some) DIY Firearms Kits More litigation is required to find out which kits and unfinished parts are subject to regulation. J.D. Tuccille | 4.2.2025 7:00 AM
Canada To Remain Canadian, Our Northern Neighbors Should Become a Little More American Canada long relied on the U.S. for protection. Now it needs to rediscover self-reliance. J.D. Tuccille | 3.31.2025 7:00 AM
Second Amendment Pam Bondi Aims To Revive a Moribund Legal Process for Restoring Gun Rights A new Justice Department rule could help "prohibited persons" who pose no threat to public safety. Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2025 3:55 PM
Administrative Law What VanDerStok Says about Agency Interpretations of Statutes The Court's opinion upholding federal regulation of "ghost guns" makes passing reference to Loper Bright Enterprises. Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.27.2025 2:37 PM
