gun control

How Magazine Bans Thwart Self-Defense 0
- Prohibition of Arms
- June 21, 2025
Originally published on Reason.com Proponents of bans on standard firearms magazines claim that the bans do not affect lawful self-defense, and do impair mass shooters. Supposedly, victims will be able to escape or fight back during the “critical pause” when a mass shooter is swapping magazines. The claims are not plausible, as explained in an amicus
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Preview of Supreme Court Bump Stock Case 0
- Prohibition of Arms, Supreme Court
- February 27, 2024
Originally published on Reason.com Tomorrow, February 28, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Garland v. Cargill; the case challenges the administrative prohibition on bump stocks imposed by the Trump and Biden administrations, via interpretation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). The Supreme Court docket is here. I co-authored an amicus
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Law Enforcement Officers Are Part of “the People”, Not Above Them 0
- Other Courts, Prohibition of Arms
- December 11, 2023
Originally published on Reason.com Two weeks ago, I filed an amicus brief in U.S. District Court in Colorado, in Gates v. Polis, a case challenging the Colorado legislature’s 2013 ban on magazines over 15 rounds. The brief was on behalf of Sheriffs and law enforcement training organizations: the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, the
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Protecting Law-abiding Firearms Businesses from Abusive Lawsuits 0
- Issue Papers, RIGHT TO ARMS
- March 7, 2023
In the late 1990s, a gun prohibition organization adopted a strategy previously used by Jim Crow government officials against the free press: filing abusive lawsuits designed to cripple the businesses through the sheer cost of litigation against meritless claims. In response, most states, Colorado included, enacted legislation against such misuse of the judicial process. Eventually,
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The Legal History of Bans on Firearms and Bowie Knives before 1900 0
- History & Philosophy, Prohibition of Arms
- November 20, 2022
Originally published on Reason.com Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen decision instructs lower courts to look to U.S. legal history to see what sorts of restrictions on Second Amendment rights are consistent with the mainstream American legal tradition. According to the Court,
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Preliminary Injunction Against New York Bans on Licensed Carry 0
- Other Courts
- November 7, 2022
Originally published on Reason.com Today U.S. District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby issued a preliminary injunction against many portions of New York’s recently enacted “Concealed Carry Improvement Act.” The act had been passed shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which upheld the Second Amendment right to
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