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second amendment issues
One of these things is not like the others: Heller, Graham, Kennedy and Booker
The title of this post is inspired by an interesting footnote in the interesting dissent by Judge Kavanaugh in the interesting DC Circuit Second Amendment ruling yesterday (first blogged here). As readers of any TV generation should know, I am...The title of this post is inspired by an interesting...
Split DC Circuit panel issues important Second Amendment ruling in via Heller II
The DC Circuit has another big Second Amendment ruling in the Heller case today in Heller v. DC, No. No. 10-703 (DC Cir. Oct. 4, 2011) (available here). Here is how the majority opinion (per Judge Ginsburg) gets started: In...The DC Circuit has another big Second Amendment ruling in the Heller case...
What do Second Amendment and states' rights fans think about feds latest gun memo?
As detailed in this new AP piece, which is headlined "ATF: Illegal to sell guns to med marijuana users," a new memo/letter from the feds restates the US Justice Department's view that gun dealers violate federal law if and when...As detailed in this new AP piece, which is headlined "ATF:...
"Should pardoned felons have gun rights?"
The title of this post is the headline of this front-page article from yesterday's edition of The Tennessean. Here is how the piece starts: David Scott Blackwell has repaid his debt to society, by Georgia standards. He served five years... The title of this post is the headline of this front-page...
Ninth Circuit rejects Second Amendment attack on criminalizing drug addict gun possession
In US v. Dugan, No. 08-10579 (9th Cir. Sept. 20, 2011) (available here), a Ninth Circuit panel needs only two pages to reject a federal defendant's Second Amendment challenge to a federal statute that makes it a felony for a...In US v. Dugan, No. 08-10579 (9th Cir. Sept. 20, 2011) (available here),...