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Gun Rights
An influential Second Amendment lawyer sees a Supreme Court pick primed to extend Constitutional protections to guns carried in public spaces.
Miami Republican Anitere Flores may spell doom for campus and open carry in the Sunshine State, but she voted to make it easier for self-defense shooters to avoid prosecution.
Gun Policy
The Fourth Circuit decision is the first to expressly reject a right to bear an AR-15 or other "weapons of war."
Concealed Carry
Proposals to repeal training and license requirements for carrying firearms in public are gaining steam — no thanks to the NRA, say the activists behind the movement.
Philadelphia
Guns are everywhere in my neighborhood. I want my community to know what bullets can do — and how they can exercise their rights.
The invite-only group of lawmakers gleefully defied GOP leaders to defeat the terror gap bill.
Campus Carry
It frustrates me that so many of my peers and professors have reacted so negatively.
Its call for the party to bar all armed security from its Philadelphia gathering makes for punchy rhetoric, but wobbly logic.
The landmark Heller decision is on safer ground than the NRA says.
Ken Cuccinelli’s practice is part of a growing number of law firms offering the controversial service.
The 2008 Heller decision left lots of room for gun regulation. For its namesake, that meant the war had just begun.
Prominent legal scholar says controversial vote may just be evidence of Supreme Court nominee's respect for precedent.
One of his decisions relates to the most important Second Amendment case in American history.
Behind the decision was a contentious Pennsylvania law empowering lawsuits by gun groups.
A veto override will make West Virginia the ninth state to allow gun owners to carry without a license. At least 19 others are considering similar legislation.