Canadian government officials say they won’t wait for lawmakers to ban importing handguns into the country. They say they have the authority to temporarily ban imports while waiting on Parliament to approve a law that would ban handguns. “Given that nearly all our handguns are imported, this means that we’re bringing our national handgun freeze […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday upheld the federal bump stock ban that took effect in 2019, approving the legal contortions required to justify it. In blessing the Trump administration’s redefinition of machine guns to include bump stocks and firearms equipped with them, the appeals court did not merely defer to […]
Organized youth shooting is disappearing in California as a result of a new law sold as banning advertising guns to kids but also potentially penalizes any promotion of firearms to minors. Rightfully criticized as a totalitarian attack on gun-oriented speech, the law is also an example of desperation on the part of those opposed to […]
A group of public defense lawyer organizations recently joined forces with Second Amendment advocates to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a New York gun control scheme. Now that the scheme has been successfully overturned in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which held that the Second Amendment includes the right […]
From today’s article in the Washington Post (Peter Jamison) (reprinted, without a paywall, in the Philadelphia Tribune), documenting a trend that I generally very much favor: Like many Black women in [the D.C. area] …, [Patrice Parker had] viewed guns for most of her life as the root of the violence that had wrecked countless […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom. Yesterday, California enacted SB 1327, a gun control law deliberately modeled on Texas’ SB 8 anti-abortion law. The purpose of both is to evade judicial review by delegating enforcement exclusively to private “bounty hunter” litigants, thereby making it difficult to for people whose rights are targeted to file preenforcement challenges […]
Should parents be held legally liable if their child shoots people? That’s the question at the center of a Michigan case straight out of the Law & Order franchise. The case stems from a 2021 mass shooting at Oxford High School, in which Ethan Crumbley killed four people. Crumbley’s parents, James and Jennifer, were charged […]
The same day Texas legislators released a devastating report on indecision and failure among hundreds of police officers during the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a single armed man ended an attack at Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana. It’s impossible to avoid comparing the two incidents. Once again, taking responsibility […]
From Judge Dale Drozd’s opinion in Clifton v. U.S. DOJ (E.D. Cal.), filed Friday: In 2001, plaintiff was in eighth grade at Mt. Vernon Middle School in Los Angeles, California. He was thirteen years old at the time. Because plaintiff’s mother had passed away and he never knew his father, plaintiff then lived with his […]