Guns Seemingly Unknown Antebellum Pennsylvania Case Briefly Mentioning the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.10.2025 1:31 PM
Guns The Second Amendment and Foster Parents Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.5.2025 8:01 AM
Gun Owners Chicago Cops Ignore the Law, Arrest Legal Gun Owners Once we let our rights become privileges, government officials can revoke them on a whim. J.D. Tuccille | 11.3.2025 7:00 AM
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
Guns Second Amendment Violated by Seizure of Firearms License from Alleged Domestic Violence Victim Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.6.2025 8:01 AM
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
Guns Refereeing the Debate over the 2021 National Firearms Survey Critics of Prof. William English's survey sometimes miss the mark, but also raise valid questions. David Kopel |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.23.2025 12:53 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
Crime What the Messages on the Bullets of Charlie Kirk's Assassin Mean The phrases are a mix of anti-fascist sentiments and irony-poisoned internet memes. C.J. Ciaramella | 9.12.2025 2:48 PM
Violence Charlie Kirk and America's History With Political Violence Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk and how political violence is reshaping the national climate. Matt Welch | 9.11.2025 6:50 PM
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
Free Speech Woman Repeatedly Badmouthed Ex-Lover, Ordered Not to Say Anything Online About Him, Lost Gun Rights She had admitted that some (though not all) of the speech was false, but the injunction (entered in a restraining order case, not following a full defamation trial) extends to all speech, not just falsehoods: "Even speech otherwise protected by the First Amendment may be enjoined if it disturbs the petitioning party's peace." Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 9.8.2025 8:25 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 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
Guns No Carry Permit Because Applicant's E-Mails to Government Cast Doubt on His "Ability to Engage in Coherent and Rational Thinking" Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.30.2025 12:27 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
Guns Medical Marijuana Users May Retain Second Amendment Rights Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.21.2025 5:20 PM
Guns 7-Day "Cooling-Off" Period for Gun Purchases Struck Down by Tenth Circuit Panel Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.19.2025 4:28 PM
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
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
Second Amendment Gun Rights Groups Sue To Overturn Federal Weapons Registration The case argues that, since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated taxes on the transfer of certain weapons, the constitutional basis for registering those weapons no longer exists. Brian Doherty | 8.5.2025 5:29 PM
Sports The Lawyers Are Taking Over Soccer Plus: surviving Philadelphia, and fixing sports Jason Russell | 8.5.2025 11:05 AM
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
Guns Restricting Open Carry of Guns Constitutional if Concealed Carry Allowed Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.4.2025 6:00 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 Californians Can Now Buy Ammunition Online Just Like Free Americans Golden State ammunition restrictions have been voided for violating the Second Amendment. J.D. Tuccille | 7.28.2025 7:00 AM
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
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
Guns Don't Plead History and Bruen in Cruel and Unusual Punishment Challenge to Long Prison Sentence for Rape, When Rape Was Historically a Capital Crime Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.3.2025 5:23 PM
Guns California General Ban on Nonresidents' Getting Concealed Carry Licenses Violates Second Amendment Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.1.2025 9:23 PM
Free Speech Porn, Guns, Marriage, and Voting Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.27.2025 11:51 AM
firearms regulation Machine Gun History Law and technological development David Kopel |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.20.2025 4:51 PM
Guns Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California "One-Gun-a-Month" Law Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.20.2025 2:36 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
Guns Restriction on Gun Possession Within 1000 Feet of School Constitutional, at Least When Possessor Is "Behaving Erratically and Menacingly" The Fifth Circuit hands down a highly fact-specific decision in a Second Amendment challenge to a federal law. Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.16.2025 6:02 PM
Fourth Amendment Government Seeks Search Warrant for Cell Phone Because It Might Have Photos of a Gun No, says a magistrate judge. Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.6.2025 4:36 PM
Guns No Search Warrant for Lawful Gun Owner's DNA in Prosecution of Felon Who Was Fighting with Him Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.6.2025 3:54 PM
Supreme Court Is the Supreme Court Really That Divided? The Facts Say No. Unanimous rulings on discrimination, guns, and religion once again challenge the common media narrative that the Court is hopelessly polarized. Billy Binion | 6.5.2025 5:21 PM
Guns S. Ct. Unanimously Rejects Mexico's Lawsuit Against Smith & Wesson "A manufacturer of goods is not an accomplice to every unaffiliated retailer whom it fails to make follow the law." Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.5.2025 10:34 AM
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
Guns Second Amendment Roundup: Bruen Was Right Joel Alicea’s defense of originalism demonstrates broad applicability of the text-history method. Stephen Halbrook |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.28.2025 9:46 PM
Guns Second Amendment Roundup: Washington Supreme Court Upholds Mag Ban It’s déjà vu all over again. Stephen Halbrook |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.14.2025 8:18 PM
