Daisy Airgun Museum
Originally published on Reason.com The small and excellent Daisy Airgun Museum tells the story of America’s most iconic manufacturer of air guns, including the famed Red Ryder, the most common first gun for many generations of American children. Rose City Art The museum is located in the center of Rogers, Arkansas, about a mile south of […]
J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum
Originally published on Reason.com J.M. Davis Arms Museum building. (Rose City Art) Located near Tulsa on Route 66, the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum amazes and overwhelms. With 12,000 firearms on display, it offers the largest collection of guns you can see at any museum. But it’s not just a firearms museum. Boasting 50,000 total artifacts, […]
Knife Ban and Vagueness Case at Supreme Court Conference
Originally published on Reason.com On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court conference will consider whether to hear an important case on vagueness, Copeland v. Vance (docket page, with links to all briefs). As an earlier post by Eugene noted, the case arises from unusual knife control laws in New York City and New York State. This post provides some […]
Supreme Court’s New Second Amendment Case
Originally published on Reason.com For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court has voted to hear argument in a Second Amendment case. Although the schedule has not been set, oral argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York could take place this Spring. The […]
Do Some Courts Underenforce the Second Amendment?
Originally published on Reason.com This Fall, the Duke Law Journal held a symposium Heller at Ten: A Symposium on From Theory to Doctrine. All of the articles are, at least partially, responses to an article Eric Ruben and Joseph Blocher that analyzed data for all post-Heller cases, from 2008 until early 2016. From Theory to Doctrine: […]
Supreme Court Should Clarify Second Amendment Test
Originally published on Reason.com Today I filed an amicus brief in support of the cert. petition in Mance v. Whitaker. The case is a challenge to the federal ban on interstate handgun sales. But more importantly, it is a good vehicle for the Court to clarify how lower courts should review Second Amendment challenges. Background: In […]
The 1986 Plastic Gun Panic
Originally published on Reason.com Have you heard about the “undetectable plastic gun”? The gun control lobbies call it is “tailor-made for terrorism.” The Washington Post reports that a state sponsor of terrorism is already attempting to obtain these guns. A Post columnist warns that the police “vehemently oppose the introduction of plastic guns into our armed […]
Ninth Circuit Strikes Hawaii Law That Only Security Guards May Get Handgun Carry Permits
Originally published on Reason.com Today a 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel held that Hawaii’s near-total prohibition on the carrying of handguns for lawful self-defense violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Under binding precedent from a previous case, Peruta v. San Diego (Peruta II), concealed carry is not a Second Amendment right. However, Hawaii requires a […]
Ninth Circuit Upholds Preliminary Injunction Against Magazine Confiscation in California
Originally published on Reason.com Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal district count injunction against a California law to confiscate firearms magazines that hold over 10 rounds. The Ninth Circuit’s 2-1 opinion is here, and the dissent is here. My analysis of the 2017 district court opinion is here. Background: In 2016, California […]
US Government Drops Prohibition on Files for 3D Printed Arms
Originally published on Reason.com Last week the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of State settled a lawsuit and agreed to end their prior restraint of distribution of computer files for the production of 3D printed firearms. The “International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)” are a collection of regulations covering the export of military weapons […]
The First “Assault Weapon”: Banning Guns Based on “Style” Rather than Function
Originally published on Reason.com When five schoolchildren were murdered at an elementary school in Stockton, California, in January 1989, the public learned a new phrase: “assault weapon.” To most gun owners and non-owners alike, it was a brand new term. It was also confusing. Whenever “assault weapon” laws have been enacted, they apply to guns that […]
How I came to stop fearing guns and embrace the Second Amendment
I used to hate guns, even giving money to anti-gun organizations. Today I am a life member of the National Rife Association.
