On June 26, 2015, in its 5-4 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the ...

Columnist Gail Symons writes, "Don’t miss the irony. By repealing local discretion, the gun-zones bill doesn’t expand freedom ...

Nearly two decades ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller , they noted, the justices struck down a District of Columbia law that generally banned the possession of handguns. In that decision, the ...

On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear two significant Second Amendment cases, one challenging Maryland’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and the other challenging Rhode Island’s ...

He noted that AR-15s are legal in 41 of 50 states, with Americans owning an estimated 20 million to 30 million of them. He says there is a strong argument that AR-15s are in “common use” by ...

If passed by the full House on Thursday, attention will focus on whether new Senate President Lawson can get the bill to the Senate floor.

The gun rights activists challenging the law say the Fourth Circuit disregarded the Supreme Court's landmark 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the late Justice Antonin ...

Supreme Court leaves in place Maryland’s ban on assault-style rifles. The Supreme Court declined to take up a pair of gun rights cases, one in Maryland and the other in Rhode Island.

The Supreme Court declined to take up a pair of gun-rights cases Monday, leaving in place Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic military-style rifles and Rhode Island’s restrictions on large ...

According to the group, short-barreled rifles are widely owned for lawful purposes and therefore deserve protection under the Second Amendment, as clarified by District of Columbia v. Heller and ...

Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald ...

Brief of respondents District of Columbia, et al. in opposition filed. 05/19/2025: Reply of petitioners Andrew Hanson, et al. filed. (Distributed) 05/20/2025: DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/5/2025.