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Firearm case law in the United States is based on decisions of the Supreme Court and other federal courts.Each of these decisions deals with the Second Amendment (which is a part of the Bill of Rights), the right to keep and bear arms, the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, and/or other federal firearms laws.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York, New York, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), abbreviated NYSRPA v.NYC and also known as NYSRPA I to distinguish it from the subsequent case, was a case addressing whether the gun ownership laws of New York City, which restrict the transport of a licensed firearm out of one's home, violated the Second Amendment to the United States ...
Case history; Prior: Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas: Holding; The National Firearms Act, as applied to transporting in interstate commerce a 12-gauge shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches long, without having registered it and without having in his possession a stamp-affixed written order for it, was not unconstitutional as an ...
In both cases, the Biden administration appealed after losing in lower courts where judges cited the 2022 Supreme Court ruling in ruling in favor of the gun owners. The court could decide to hear ...
(The Center Square) – Illinois’ gun and magazine ban will stay in effect pending the outcome in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the appeals court ruled Thursday. Illinois banned the ...
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 ...
United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and whether it empowers the government to prohibit firearm possession by a person with a civil domestic violence restraining order in the absence of a corresponding criminal domestic violence conviction or charge.
Last month, when an 11-judge panel of the 9th Circuit decided to send the Hawaii gun permitting case back to a lower court, four of the judges — one appointed by Reagan, two by George W. Bush ...