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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/nyregion/bruen-guns-robert-homer.html
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could allow more New Yorkers to carry guns is raising thorny questions and has jeopardized at least one case so far.
The case is now in jeopardy after a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled on...
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/19/make-finland-the-land-of-shooting-badassery-again/
In December I will cruise the Norwegian coast Kystruten. We have agreed to four excursions; my two are, to Nidaros Cathedral home of my Patrol Saint, and to the Finnish border.
According to the Catholic Church, it is not permitted to come armed to Mass and Communion unless there is a pastoral necessity and the diocesan bishop's prescripts are observed [^3]. The Code of Canon Law states that no one is allowed to keep the Eucharist on their person or carry it around...
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HC00054I.pdf#navpanes=0
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 WHEREAS, The Texas Legislature respectfully notifies the
2 federal government of a series of alleged boating accidents that
3 occurred across Hunt, Hopkins, Van Zandt, and possibly other
4...
fourthamendment.com/?p=54224
“A marijuana user is not barred from possessing a handgun under Heller and Bruen under § 922(g)(3). The case makes passing reference to the Fourth and Second Amendments reflecting current rights in 1789. (It’s only here because it’s really interesting.) United...
http://fourthamendment.com/?p=53922#more-53922
Another section of CPLR 63-a which troubles this Court concerns the possibility that, based upon the opinion of a non-physician, a court may be permitted to issue a search warrant to confiscate a respondent’s guns, but which also may result in...
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/12/13/plain-text/?comments=true#comment-9835591
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Fortunately, the plain text analysis is not difficult because the Supreme Court has already defined the key terms of the guarantee that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-shopping-mall-shooting-police
Permitless open and concealed carry took affect on July 1, 2022, for residents and non-residents 18 or older. There is no informaton yet released under what condition the good guy was carrying.
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/07/11/hawaii-ag-instructs-chiefs-of-police-to-broadly-grant-concealed-carry-licenses-but-not-unconcealed-carry/
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dwshelf
July.11.2022 at 10:36 pm
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Open carry is a bit intimidating to the audience, and seldom the...
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/14/recent-books-on-the-constitution-2/
Every year, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. Because I tend to read what relates directly to my current projects, I felt that I...
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/10/slippery-slope-arguments-in-history-the-supreme-court-in-the-flag-salute-case/
EUGENE VOLOKH | 6.10.2022 8:52 AM
From Justice Jackson's majority opinion in W. Va. State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943):