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In 2008, the United States Supreme Court made it clear for the first time that the Second Amendment protects the right of private individuals to keep and bear weapons that…
David Kopel writes for the Federalist about an important element of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest gun case. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in New York…
That’s the title of a piece by David Kopel that appeared at the Volokh Conpiracy on Monday. I’m a bit late reposting it, but it’s still worth reading even though…
John Locke Foundation’s Jon Guze writes that it is time for the Supreme Court to stop the infringement on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms by lower courts: I…
In a previous Update, I criticized a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upholding the absurd restrictions that New York City imposes on licensed gun…
The John Locke Foundation is sponsoring this year’s Campbell Law Review Symposium, which is called, “Heller After Ten Years.” The organizers have assembled an all-star list of panelists, including Alan Gura, David…
Last week, the US District Court for the Southern District of California granted a preliminary injunction blocking a state law that makes it illegal to possess magazines that hold more than 10…
In an interesting piece at the Washington Post, David Kopel argues that many of the key ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence had their origin in an essay published in 1644 by Samuel Rutherford. The essay…
View in your browser. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson and his wife Candy have just published a new book called A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do…
The Independence Institute?s David Kopel, writing in The Washington Times, takes Sonia Sotomayor to the judicial woodshed for ?devolving? on the gun rights issue. He points out a contradiction between…
But David Kopel says that if you look at their records, it’s plain as day that they’re just trying to fool voters. Read his WSJ piece here.