Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from David Kopel

Colorado Legislators Ditch Plan To Ban Guns in Dozens of 'Sensitive Places'

The amended bill applies only to schools, polling places, and certain government buildings.

Biden Reportedly Is Planning To Unilaterally Mandate Background Checks for All Gun Sales

A watchdog group cites ATF "whistleblowers" who describe a proposed policy that would be plainly inconsistent with federal law.

Volokh Conspiracy Holiday Gifts—2023

Gift ideas for the VC readers in your life!

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Second Amendment Roundup: Fusillade of Amicus Briefs Filed in Rahimi

A strong case is made against the ban on gun possession by persons subject to a DVRO.

Volokh Conspiracy Holiday Gifts—2022

Gift ideas for the VC readers in your life!

Greg Ablavsky Responds to Rob Natelson's "Cite Check"

I'm glad to see co-blogger David Kopel following the very fruitful exchange between Greg Ablavsky and Rob Natelson about the original scope of federal power over Indian affairs (an exchange I tracked earlier here). David mentions and quotes a "cite check" that Natelson recently published taking issue with a number…

Remembering a pioneering Colorado lawyer and activist

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Japan's Gun Restrictions Are Far From Sufficient To Explain Its Low Crime Rate

Japan's Gun Restrictions Are Far From Sufficient To Explain Its Low Crime Rate

While gun control enthusiasts rushed to defend Japan's firearm restrictions after Shinzo Abe's assassination, copying that approach in the U.S. is legally, politically, and practically impossible.

Abe's assassination shocks Japan, where gun control is strict and shootings are rare

Abe's assassination shocks Japan, where gun control is strict and shootings are rare

Japan, with famously strict laws, has among the world's lowest rates of gun ownership and gun violence. In 2018 there were just nine firearm deaths reported in Japan, compared with 39,740 in the U.S.

Congratulations to Our Own Will Baude, Steve Sachs, and David Kopel on Their Bruen Cites

Will's Constitutional Liquidation was cited by the majority and by Justice Barrett's concurrence; his and Steve's Originalism and the Law of the Past was cited by the majority; and David's and Joseph Greenlee's The "Sensitive Places" Doctrine was cited by the majority as well. Nice!

A brief response to David Kopel

I realize the old days of extended debates among Volokh bloggers have long passed. Still, I can't help but chime in to say that David's recent post leaves me speechless. Dave and I agree that the NRA has every right to meet, and that protesters have every right to protest.…

People

Merrick Garland

David Bernstein

Steven Dettelbach

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Organisations

the Supreme Court

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

121,697 stories

Second Amendment

Places

277,027 stories

The United States

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.

Download on the AppStore

Get it on Google Play