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 ...

Federal courts extended Second Amendment protections to switchblade knives and body armor, fueling optimism ahead of the ...

The Hawaii Attorney General pointed to an 1893 Oregon statute against carrying arms on enclosed premises or lands without the consent of the owner. While the Hawaii Attorney General claimed that the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law that banned gun owners from carrying their weapons on privately owned property that is open to the public unless they had the owner’s consent.

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 ...

A Third Circuit panel upheld Joseph Paul Berger’s machine gun and silencer convictions, holding that machine guns qualify as “arms” but may still be banned because they are not commonly used for ...

On October 25, 2023, 18 people were killed in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. The killer's declining mental health was known to law enforcement since that May. On July 6, although he owned other ...