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Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Sixth Circuit Holds Ban On Gun Possession After Commitment To Mental Institution Violates Second Amendment
By 1564523952-httpswww.sixthcircuitappellateblog.com
In Tyler v. Hillsdale Cnty. Sheriff’s Dep’t, a case sure to draw attention nationwide, the Sixth Circuit held today that “’a prohibition on the possession of firearms by a person…
Education Law Prof Blog
Increasing Restrictions on Social Media While Reducing Restrictions on Guns
By Derek Black
Two new articles of note are available on westlaw now. They are about two entirely different trends, but suggest a huge irony when read together.Janet R. Decker, Facebook Phobia! The Misguided…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“This man carries a loaded gun around your children every day…”
...reads the lawnsign Kimberly Edson placed in her yard to inform her neighbors that an area man legally carries a concealed handgun. The sign contains a picture of Matthew Halleck,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
CouldMcCullen’s First Amendment scrutiny impact (and strengthen) Second Amendment claims?
Main June 26, 2014Could McCullen's First Amendment scrutiny impact (and strengthen) Second Amendment claims?I am not a First Amendment expert, and thus I cannot expertly assess all the Justices' First…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Waldman’s Biography of the Second Amendment
Michael Waldman, writing over at Politico, tells the story of how the NRA rewrote the Second Amendment, not through the Article V process, but through persistent and carefully calculated political…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
The Loaded Gun: America’s Cowboy Culture Enters the International Sphere
School kids learning firearm safety in rural Indiana 1956 (Source: Life.com) “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Should those who really favor gun rights protest the right to sell and own a safer gun?
Main May 4, 2014Should those who really favor gun rights protest the right to sell and own a safer gun?The question in the title of this post is a little…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Without much to say about the Second Amendment, SCOTUS gives broad reading to federal firearm possession crime
Main March 26, 2014Without much to say about the Second Amendment, SCOTUS gives broad reading to federal firearm possession crimeIn a unanimous ruling (with two separate concurrences), the Supreme Court…
The Right Coast
Idaho Has Declared It Won’t Obey New Federal Gun Laws – NationalJournal.com
Last Friday, Idaho passed a law declaring that the state does not have to abide by federal gun laws going forward. The law, which criminalizes the enforcement of federal gun…
The Right Coast
Americans embrace guns: Column
At present, we've reached the point where the Second Amendment can be characterized as ordinary constitutional law. That is, it now protects a right that attaches to individuals, and that…