Illinois may have just increased the odds the Supreme Court takes up an “assault weapons” ban case sooner than later.
On Friday, in US v. Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, a federal judge said 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)’s ban on illegal immigrants owning guns violates the Second Amendment. That decision likely misapplies the Supreme Court’s key test for gun cases.
It’s impossible to talk honestly about gun-death statistics in America without deciding how to categorize suicides.
The reaction from Governor Gavin Newsom (D.) to two horrifying mass shootings terrorizing Californians in the same week was swift. He called for Congress to adopt California’s gun laws as a solution. But there are significant problems with that argument.
Reports from three different states give a glimpse at how rare it is for somebody with a gun-carry permit to break the law.
A close look at Philadelphia’s crime stats after gun-rights activists forced it to start issuing more concealed carry permits.
While nearly every part of the country has seen an uptick in violent crime, what has not changed is that murder in the United States is still not spread out equally.
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