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Showing posts with label Second Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Amendment. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

From NBCNews: Assault Weapons Not Protected by Second Amendment, Federal Appeals Court Rules

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This will very likely end up in the Supreme Court. - Click here for the article . Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of assault weapons and its...
Friday, September 2, 2016

From Fortune: Court Rules That Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can't Buy Firearms

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It'll be fun following the fallout of this one - hat tip to JS. - Click here for the article . Because it can make them “irrational a...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Voisine v. United States - Ban on guns for domestic abusers upheld

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Second Amendment rights are not absolute. - Click here for background from Oyez . - Click here for info from Scotusblog . Issue: Whether a ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

From the Washington Post: Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Connecticut’s ban on ‘assault weapons’

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This addresses a question posed last week about whether the Supreme Court might decide whether the Second Amendment applies to assault rifl...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

From the Constitution Daily: Is there a constitutional right to have a rapidly firing assault gun?

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This is timely. - Click here for the article . . . . here are the key issues that have been coming up regularly (none of which has yet be...
Monday, June 13, 2016

From the NYT: 2nd Amendment Does Not Guarantee Right to Carry Concealed Guns, Court Rules

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The Second Amendment has yet to be interpreted to apply outside the home. This could provide the Supreme Court the opportunity to do so. - ...
Monday, February 29, 2016

From the Atlantic: Clarence Thomas Breaks His Silence The Supreme Court justice asked a question for the first time in 10 years, revealing a different dynamic since the passing of Antonin Scalia earlier this month.

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The case was Voisine v. United States - click here for Scotusblog's page on it . Here is the issue before the court: Issue: (1) Whethe...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The Texas Tribune: UT-Austin Issues Campus Carry Rules Barring Guns From Dorms

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Let's see if there is push back from this - a Second Amendment lawsuit perhaps? - Click here for the article . Save for some narrow e...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

From Slate: Are Assault Weapons Protected by the Second Amendment?

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As of yet, the only weapon the Supreme Court has decided falls under the protection of the Second Amendment is a handgun, and only in homes....
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

From Bloomberg: Obama's Gun Control Initiative Challenged in Federal Lawsuit

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We discussed in class whether the expansion of background checks for gun buyers - and more specifically the requirement that gun sellers pe...
Monday, January 11, 2016

A few major court cases related to the Second Amendment

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Attention DHS dual credit students - we will walk through these cases, and the laws they challenge, at some point in class as a way to see h...

Libertarianism and the Second Amendment.

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I'll try wrapping this up in a written assignment of some sort. Libertarians seem conflicted over how to best secure gun rights. They li...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

The first national gun control act: the National Firearms Act of 1934

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As far as I can tell - not an expert on this - the statutory authority for the president's executive actions on background checks stems ...

From the Harvard Law Review: Does the Second Amendment Protect Firearms Commerce? Defending the right to sell and trade arms

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The Second Amendment refers to the right to keep and bear arms. The first of Obama's executive orders on guns places requirement on gun...

From the White House: FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities Safer

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I've yet to find confirmation, but what the president announced yesterday were executive actions that will form the basis of a series of...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

From ScotusBlog: Court denies gun rights cases (UPDATED)

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ScotusBlog's Lyle Dennison tries to explain why the Supreme Court decided to not hear the Second Amendment cases we've been discussi...
Monday, February 24, 2014

The Supreme Court will not hear Second Amendment cases

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A bit of a disappointment - we looked at these cases last week in both 2305 and 2306. - Click here for the notice in ScotuBlog . The Supr...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

From The Dish: The Expanding Right To Bear Arms

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Andrew Sullivan calls attention to appellate court cases where the extent of the Second Amendment is not only expanded, but limits the abili...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The Supreme Court to consider whether to hear a case involving Texas' concealed handgun laws

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From ScotusBlog . The case is National Rifle Association of America v. McCraw. Issue: (1) Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Is there a right to bear switch blades?

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We just might soon find out .