Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
“Much to the dismay of gun control activists, Second Amendment rights were protected and expanded in a number of states in 2024," Commerford said in a statement to USA TODAY.
This drastically reduced gun crime and violence in the United States. But it was not to last. Up until the 1990s, most Americans said they owned guns only for hunting or target shooting, and only ...
Several states have new gun laws going into effect in 2025. Everytown for Gun Safety released a new ranking Wednesday of the laws in all 50 states.
In United States v. Rahimi (2024), this test was refined as the Court upheld federal laws restricting gun rights from those accused of domestic violence and said that lower courts should not seek exact comparisons when reviewing the historical tradition but rather look at similar analogues and general principles. [2]
The justices also rejected an appeal by a gun rights group called Maryland Shall Issue and other plaintiffs of a lower court's ruling that upheld the state's licensing law as permissible under the ...
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
A June 2022 ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 70% of Americans believed enacting new gun control laws was more important than protecting gun ownership rights. [43] Regarding the impending 2022 midterm elections , Gallup reported that 55% of voters said gun policy is "extremely important", while 8% of voters said that gun control was the country's ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday trained its sights once again on gun rights, agreeing to decide the legality of a federal ban imposed under former President Donald Trump on "bump stock ...