A Seventh Circuit panel led by Judge Frank Easterbrook signaled that lifetime gun bans for people once committed to a mental institution may require proof of present dangerousness.
The Supreme Court’s Hemani decision was not just about marijuana users and gun rights. Its due-process language may become a major weapon against red flag laws that seize firearms first and offer hearings later.
The Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Hemani rejects automatic status-based disarmament under § 922(g)(3), telling the federal government that marijuana use alone does not erase the Second Amendment.
Washington’s Supreme Court upheld a law stripping gun rights after two DUIs, raising major Second Amendment questions under Bruen and Rahimi.
The Supreme Court is expected to release decisions soon in Wolford v. Lopez and United States v. Hemani, two Second Amendment cases that could clarify how lower courts apply Bruen after Rahimi.
In the corridors of Washington, D.C., whispers of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s potential retirement have grown into a roar.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed its decision in Antonyuk v. James (a/k/a Antonyuk v. Nigreli), which challenged New York State’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA).
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the gun control regime by ruling the law banning marijuana users from owning firearms is unconstitutional.
In the Rahimi decision Biden-appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson comes across as what one would expect of a DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) pick: whiny & weak for the task.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a compelling dissent in the Rahimi case. The majority opinion is very narrow and extremely limited.
The anti-gun movement failed to accomplish its goal of destroying the “text first, history second” approach to deciding Second Amendment-related cases.
The Supreme Court’s narrow decision in Rahimi failed to produce the damage the anti-gun crowd hoped for against Bruen.
Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in U.S. v. Rahimi upholds government’s ability to disarm those under domestic violence restraining orders.
On November 17, 2023, a three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in the case of USA v Kersee, unanimously held the district court order revoking his supervised release was not Constitutional.
Numerous media headlines misstate the challenge in the Rahimi Second Amendment case. It is not about domestic violence. It is about the Bill of Rights.