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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's state Supreme Court election next spring already had high stakes, with majority control on the line. But a judge's ruling this week restoring collective ...
Rybar (3d Cir. 1996) [16] - In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Congress did have the power to regulate possession of homemade machine guns under the Commerce Clause, later reaffirmed by the Supreme Court. The Third Circuit made this decision 2–1, with future Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in dissent.
(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 ...
The increased activity on the gun rights docket stems from the court's relatively new embrace of an individual right to bear arms as first articulated in a 2008 ruling but expanded significantly ...
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and ...
It broadened gun rights in landmark rulings in 2008 and 2010 before the 2022 Bruen decision, which recognized a constitutional right to carry a handgun in public for self defense and struck down ...
In a second case, the Supreme Court of Hawaii upheld a state requirement for having a permit to carry a gun in public, ruling that the recent decision of Bruen and other gun rights cases by the U.S. Supreme Court since Heller have turned against the "militia-centric" reading of the Second Amendment, and that "states retain the authority to ...
The Supreme Court handed down its most significant gun control ruling in two years on Friday, upholding a federal law that bars people who are the subject of domestic violence restraining orders ...