This fall, the Supreme Court will entertain a Second Amendment challenge to the prohibition of assault weapons in Viramontes v. Cook County.

The theatrical concept album pokes fun at both the gun lobby and gun reformers. Its creators want to seed a new kind of conversation around firearms.

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Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School) and Jessie Layman have posted On the Flawed Architecture of Expert Evidence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Courts often rely on expert witnesses to translate technical jargon and draw conclusions from complex evidence. Because of their epistemic disadvantages, factfinders are poorly equipped to evaluate the reliability of expert witness testimony. Instead, judges and juries tend to rely on cognitive shortcuts, deferring to an expert’s credentials, confidence, and delivery.

This Article examines the Trump Administration's 2025 administrative reanimation of 18 U.S.C. § 925(c), a long-dormant statutory "safety valve" that a

Trump made these remarks today in North Carolina.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is advocating legislation that would make 3D-printing guns a crime.

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This morning, the Court granted certiorari in two cases challenging AR-15 bans, Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois and Grant v. Higgins. In Viramontes, petitioners challenge the constitutionality of ...

faculty.westacademic.com: Blocher, Charles, Madeira, and Miller's The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Regulation: The book is designed to meet a substantial demand among academics and law students f...

How decades of shoddy research, lax academic oversight, marketing, and outright lies fatally warped America’s gun culture

An Iranian gay couple seeking asylum in the U.S. now faces deportation back to Iran as immigration policies tighten and deportation flights resume despite fears of persecution and death.

Birthright Citizenship and Constitutional Adjudication

Eight years after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, educator Sarah Lerner reflects on trauma, resilience and what it means to keep teaching in the aftermath of school gun violence. What has chang...

This Special Communication discusses the JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence and provides an innovations roadmap to lead to substantial reductions in firearm violence, injuries, and harm in the US by 2040...

Kevin Schascheck II (Independent; Tulane University School of Law) has posted Second Amendment Exceptions on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Second Amendment guarantees the individual right to keep and bear firearms. But that right has never been absolute. In Heller, the Supreme Court was careful to recognize certain exceptions to the right, which it labelled "presumptively lawful" categories of firearm regulations.

<p><span>It is no secret that the <i>Dobbs </i>framework dooms virtually all liberty claims brought under the ambit of due process. Yet for all their devotion t