The Latest Breaking News from Rahimi

Some thoughts from Michael McConnell, Douglas Laycock, Stephanie Barclay, and Mark Storslee.

The original understanding in 1791, not that in 1868, governs.

No, said an Eighth Circuit panel in U.S. v. Jackson earlier this year; yesterday, the court refused to rehear the… The post Should Felons Have the Right to Challenge Their Loss of Gun Rights, on a Case-by-Case Basis? appeared first on Reason.com.

The Supreme Court’s latest opinion on gun rights has not eliminated the disagreement among judges in those challenges, legal experts say.

"We read the Court's analysis in Rahimi to have modified Bruen in at least one relevant respect."

From yesterday's decision in U.S. v. Medina-Cantu, by Judge Carolyn Dineen King and Kurt Engelhardt: In U.S. v. Portillo-Munoz (5th Cir. 2011), this court held that 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), which prohibits an illegal alien from possessing a firearm or ammunition, is constitutional under the Second Amendment. In the present…

Court relies on Rahimi in support of liberalized gun carry permits.

Defending the federal ban on gun possession by drug users, the government's lawyers seem increasingly desperate.

The right to keep and bear arms remains a second-class right.