Two mass shootings in less than a week appear may spur President Joe Biden to put his spending plans on the back burner and push a series of gun control initiatives that are unlikely to have prevented either event. Gun control advocates have been frustrated that executive orders on gun control were not among the […]
In a 7-4 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there is no constitutional right to bear arms in public. The en banc ruling in the case, Young v. Hawaii, set aside a 2-1 panel decision that found Hawaii's system for permitting open carry of firearms was an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment. […]
Moving quickly on President Joe Biden's gun control agenda, the House of Representatives passed two bills that would make some of the stringent background check laws in place in Restricted States applicable nationwide. Nationwide Universal Background Checks The first bill, H.R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, requires residents of the same state […]
Last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the 2-1 panel decision handed down last August in Duncan v. Becerra that found that California's arbitrary ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds was an unconstitutional infringement on Second Amendment rights. A majority of the judges on the Ninth Circuit, despite the best efforts […]
