[ad_1] This story was published in partnership with the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletter here. On Jan. 29, in a federal courtroom in Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves delivered a ruling that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable: He found the decades-old
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[ad_1] It’s hard to guess what led the Supreme Court to punt on the question of the legality of one of the country’s most popular firearms, the AR-15, which the National Rifle Association dubs “America’s Rife.” The high court’s punt was declining to hear a dispute over Maryland’s ban on the arm. At least there’s
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[ad_1] Anyone who has been tracking the rise of Christian nationalism should know of Patriot Mobile and its chief communications officer, Leigh Wambsganss. She, the company she represents and that company’s political action committee each had starring roles in investigative journalist Mike Hixenbaugh’s book They Came for the Schools: One Town’s Fight Over Race and
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[ad_1] The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun-rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland‘s ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment. The decision, a major win for gun-safety advocates, leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that
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[ad_1] (The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected two Second Amendment cases Monday, one challenging Maryland’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and the other challenging Rhode Island’s ban on such firearms as well as high-capacity gun magazines. The rejection of the Maryland case effectively upholds the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that a firearm’s
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[ad_1] by Mitch Perry Marion Hammer, the National Rifle Association’s first woman president and a longtime Second Amendment lobbyist in Tallahassee, is suing the organization for alleged breach of contract. Among the allegations in her federal lawsuit is that in 2018 she was offered $5 million by Brady: United Against Gun Violence, the gun violence
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[ad_1] While Americans acquire training to apply for concealed carry permits, Second Amendment groups are pushing Congress to pass concealed carry reciprocity legislation so gun owners are not arrested after crossing state lines. The Daily Caller went to the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) gun range in Fairfax, Virginia, and attended Live Fire Instruction’s pistol fundamentals
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[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a request from the Justice Department to further extend a case concerning the federal prohibition on gun ownership by people who consume marijuana. About a month after the court granted the Trump administration’s initial request to push back the case so it could have more time to decide
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[ad_1] On May 22, 2025, John Commerford, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, gave the following release. “This morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill, which includes the complete removal of suppressors from the NFA. This represents a monumental victory for Second Amendment rights, eliminating burdensome
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[ad_1] Congressman Gabe Evans (R-CO) made a rare public appearance today, holding a press conference in support of President Donald Trump’s budget bill. Evans, who cast a deciding vote in favor Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” (It passed 215-214), was flanked by four other GOP officials: U.S. Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Weld Sheriff Steve Reams,
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United States: Elon Musk is relinquishing his federal duties, stepping away from the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency—abbreviated as DOGE—a brainchild meant to instill frugality within bureaucratic veins. Yet, in a candid exchange airing this Sunday on *CBS Sunday Morning*, Musk unleashed sharp disapproval toward President Donald Trump’s self-praised “one big beautiful” fiscal
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[ad_1] J. Joel Alicea, “Bruen Was Right,” 174 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025), sets forth a comprehensive defense of the text-history approach and rejection of means-scrutiny set forth in Justice Clarance Thomas’ opinion in Bruen. A professor at the Columbus School of Law, Alicea is the director of the Center for the Constitution and
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[ad_1] Memorial Day’s mass shooting in Philadelphia runs counter to what had been a 38% decline in gun-related homicides in the state but federal funding cuts now threaten key gun violence prevention programs. The Cure Violence program run by New Kensington Community Development Corporation, is one of 350 groups learning their Justice Department grants would
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