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Editorial: One nation, under the gun: In Washington, a reminder of the stark stakes of firearm madness

The Supreme Court issued only one opinion Wednesday morning. Fortunately for New York, which is bracing for the activist “conservative” majority to shred the state’s protective gun permitting law, it had nothing to do with firearms. Meanwhile, a 10-minute walk away in the Capitol, Republican political allies of those justices…

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Actor McConaughey Calls for Gun Legislation at White House

Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey made an appearance at the White House Tuesday to call on Congress to "reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation in honor of the children and teachers killed in last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Grandstanding? McConaughey's gun speech

The actor proposes a four-point plan for gun safety in his recent op-ed for the Austin American-Statesman

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Home Shooting Range Case

From today's order granting review in Barris v. Stroud Township: The issue, as rephrased, is: Whether an ordinance that limits target shooting to two non-residential zoning districts, and thus does not provide for shooting ranges at all private residences, is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the United States…

Reason

After Uvalde massacre Cruz digs in on gun rights, Cornyn mulls modest changes

WASHINGTON – Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz both cast themselves as staunch Second Amendment supporters. Both enjoy A+ ratings from the NRA.

Tribune News Service

Is America’s problem guns — or democracy?

Unhinged people shooting up cities, towns, supermarkets, churches and schools are turning us all into hostages. A society that can’t act to protect itself from outrages like Uvalde is no longer a meaningful democracy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bipartisan Support for Red Flag Laws Elides the Practical and Constitutional Issues They Raise

Because there is no reliable way to identify future mass shooters, it is inevitable that many innocent people will lose their Second Amendment rights.

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Texas town begins burying its children after school shooting

First two funerals for two schoolchildren killed in attack at primary school in Uvalde are taking place on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera

American exceptionalism: the poison that cannot protect its children from violent death

I had always been afraid of America. Once, in Alaska, we had dinner with a man my father was working with, and he had actually uttered the line – that iconic American saying, so ridiculous as to be almost unbelievable. Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. I thought he…

The Conversation

Biden says ‘you couldn’t buy cannons’ under Second Amendment in swipe at guns after Texas school massacre

President Joe Biden said Monday that gun rights are not absolute, claiming that ordinary American citizens “couldn’t buy cannons” when the Second Amendment was drafted.

Tribune News Service

Unfazed by the Second Amendment, Democrats Want To Ban Gun Purchases by Young Adults

Two federal appeals courts recently concluded that such age restrictions are unconstitutional.

Reason

The truth about guns and capitalism

It isn't just the Second Amendment: If we can't control social media and "corporate speech," we'll never end this

Salon

After latest mass shooting, is the supreme court poised to expand gun rights?

Trump’s presidency saw three new rightwing judges, each backed by the powerful gun lobby movement

The Guardian - US

TX slashed mental health money, gun laws

The Lone Star State has declared itself a "Second Amendment sanctuary"

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Ramesh Ponnuru: The gun debate needs to break old patterns

The mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas, coming just 10 days after the mass murder of shoppers in Buffalo, New York, moved former Sen. Bill Frist — who was the majority leader of a Republican Senate when President George W. Bush was in the White House — to issue…

Salon

After Texas, Republican threatens Biden

"Try to take our guns and you'll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place"

Los Angeles Times

19 children, 2 adults killed in mass shooting at Texas elementary school

HOUSTON — A gunman walked into a Texas school Tuesday and killed at least 21 people, including 19 children, in another mass shooting in an America that daily buries victims of gun violence amid divisive political debates over Second Amendment rights and the gaze of disbelief from the outside world.

Los Angeles Times

18 children, teacher killed in mass shooting at Texas elementary school

HOUSTON — A gunman walked into a Texas school Tuesday and killed at least 19 people, including 18 children, in another mass shooting in an America that daily buries victims of gun violence amid divisive political debates over Second Amendment rights and the gaze of disbelief from the outside world.

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"Illegal Aliens" "May Be 'Disqualified from' Possessing Arms Without Violating the Second Amendment"

So the Eleventh Circuit held today in U.S. v. Jimenez-Shilon, in an opinion by Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judges Elizabeth Branch and Andrew Brasher; the opinion focused on Framing-era history, and concludes, [Under eighteenth-century law,] aliens could not surreptitiously enter a foreign nation in violation of the immigration prerogatives…

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Ninth Circuit Strikes Down Restriction on Gun Purchases by 18-to-20-Year-Olds

From Judge Ryan Nelson's opinion this morning in Jones v. Bonta, joined by Judge Kenneth Lee and in part (only as to the upholding of the hunting license requirement) by District Judge Sidney Stein (S.D.N.Y.): California has restricted the sale of most firearms to anyone under 21. Plaintiffs challenged the…

Benzinga

Marijuana Use And Gun Ownership: Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Nikki Fried On Why Cannabis Should Be Legalized

Nikki Fried (D), Florida's Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services recently filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to emphasize the issue of medical cannabis patients and their Second Amendment right to purchase and possess firearms.

Reason

New Textbook: Firearms Law and the Second Amendment

Regulation, Rights, and Policy

Reason

The "Essential" Second Amendment - Now Published in Texas Review of Law & Politics

A study of the Second Amendment during the pandemic cases.

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