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Harris and Trump differ widely on gun rights, death penalty and other civil liberties questions

As the election nears, voters are considering the two leading presidential candidates’ records on a wide range of issues, including civil liberties – a broad term used to describe the constitutionally protected freedoms that protect citizens from excessive government power. These key freedoms are contained in the Bill of Rights,…

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Second Amendment Roundup: Supreme Court Grants Cert in Mexico v. Smith & Wesson

A cartel-dominated state blames America’s lawful gun industry for its violence.

Reason

Mich. S. Ct. Declines to Review Decision Upholding U. Michigan Gun Ban

The case is Wade v. Univ. of Mich.; as is common for such denials of review, the majority didn't offer… The post Mich. S. Ct. Declines to Review Decision Upholding U. Michigan Gun Ban appeared first on Reason.com.

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Gov. Walz And VP Harris Support Public Lands And Second Amendment

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris launch coalition supporting public lands, conservation, and Second Amendment rights.

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Kamala Harris tells Oprah Winfrey that if someone breaks into her house ‘they’re getting shot’: ‘Probably shouldn’t have said that’

‘Please, please don’t make an ad of this video of her and air it in the swing states,’ Biden staffer says

The Independent UK

Judges wrestle with latest Supreme Court gun rights opinion - Roll Call

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

Roll Call

Kamala Harris reminded voters she owns a gun during debate. Here’s her stance on the Second Amendment

Harris has repeatedly called for a new assault weapons ban, which would limit access to certain semi-automatic rifles commonly used in mass shootings

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9th Circuit Partly Upholds Injunctions Against Location-Specific Gun Bans in California and Hawaii

The ruling says some restrictions on guns in "sensitive places" are constitutionally dubious but upholds several others.

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How Some Courts are Evading Bruen by Changing its Rules

Lower Courts evading the "plain text" of the Second Amendment

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A Federal Judge Says Carry-Permit Holders Have a Right to Armed Self-Defense on Public Transit

The ruling concludes that the government failed to show an Illinois ban is "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."

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Massachusetts Switchblade Ban Overturned on Second Amendment Grounds

The Second Amendment doesn’t protect guns; it protects the human right to self-defense.

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Fifth Circuit Won't Revisit Its Earlier Precedent Holding Illegal Aliens Lack Second Amendment Rights

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…

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Federal Ban on Gun Possession by Drug Users Is Often Unconstitutional

"[O]ur history and tradition may support some limits on a presently intoxicated person's right to carry a weapon ..., but they do not support disarming a sober person based solely on past substance usage."

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Eighth Circuit Wrongly Struck Down Missouri's Gun Sanctuary Law—But Also Created a Roadmap for How Such Laws Can Escape Invalidation in the Future

The court indicates the law would be constitutional so long as it does not claim to declare a federal law "invalid."

The Independent UK

Massachusetts strikes down a 67-year-old switchblade ban, cites landmark Supreme Court gun decision

Residents of Massachusetts are now free to arm themselves with switchblades after a 67-year-old restriction was struck down in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark decision on gun rights and the Second Amendment

Reason

The History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900

Restrictions on carry, minors, and misuse were the norm -- not bans

The Independent UK

Massachusetts reverses switchblade carry ban, saying they are protected under Second Amendment

State’s high court argued that switchblades were considered an ‘arm’ and therefore protected by the Second Amendment

The Independent UK

Bikinis, surfboards and battle-axes? Hawaii loosens long-strict weapons laws after court ruling

Second Amendment activists in Hawaii are celebrating a recent legal change that allows them to carry not just guns but other weapons -- from battle-axes to butterfly knives — openly in public

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