In 1991, retired Chief Justice Warren Burger went on PBS and called the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual ...
The Second Amendment is what gives American citizens the right to bear arms. The constitutional right has caused a lot of controversy in recent decades, and critics argue that removing the amendment ...
Federal courts extended Second Amendment protections to switchblade knives and body armor, fueling optimism ahead of the Supreme Court's AR-15 case.
This midterm election on November 3 will soon be behind us. We could see, come January 2027, a Congress that respects our Second Amendment freedom, or the American electorate could vote in the ...
The Second Amendment occupies a curious place in American legal history. It has been sitting right there in the Bill of Rights since those amendments were first added to the Constitution in 1791. Yet ...
Four years ago in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court said the Second Amendment precludes states from requiring that people demonstrate a "special need" before they ...
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the Supreme Court announced a two-step test for adjudicating Second Amendment challenges. Step one: Decide whether “the Second Amendment’s plain ...
Today, the United States Department of Justice sued the City of Glendale, California, for violating citizens’ fundamental rights under the Second Amendment by requiring unreasonable fees to obtain ...
The great comedian Dave Chappelle once said, "The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out." There's nothing funny about what's happening ...
After immigration agents fatally shot Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti on January 24, federal officials described him as a "domestic terrorist" and "would-be assassin" who "wanted to do maximum ...
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Modern debates about the Second Amendment have focused ...