firearms regulation
Gun rights groups welcome demise of constitutionally dubious federal firearm taxes
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law last week, reduces the federal tax on transfers of firearm sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns from $200 to zero.…
Criminal justice reformers should welcome Bondi’s gun rights restoration initiative
The Justice Department is proceeding with plans to revive a moribund relief process for people who have lost their Second Amendment rights as a result of criminal convictions. The department's FY 2026 budget proposal,…
California’s one-per-month limit on gun purchases is unconstitutional
A California law that limits gun purchases to one per month is unconstitutional on its face, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled last Friday. The three-judge panel's unanimous conclusion illustrates the…
Machine gun history – Reason.com
While legal scholarship on firearms has grown tremendously since I first started writing on the issue in the late 1980s, one topic that has never been addressed in detail in any law journal is machine guns. My new article in…
She lost her gun rights for passing a bad check. Will SCOTUS fix that injustice?
Seventeen years ago, Melynda Vincent was convicted of bank fraud because she paid for groceries with a bad check for $498. Although bank fraud can be punished by up to 30 years in prison under federal law, Vincent was…
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