Robert Leider is an Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. In the Supreme Court, Illinois has filed its brief in opposition in Harrel v. Raoul (and its companion case Herrera v. Raoul). These cases challenge Illinois’s ban on some...
Read MoreThe Fourth Circuit court of appeals, sitting en banc, recently heard oral arguments in Bianchi v. Brown, a challenge to Maryland’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” During the arguments, judges repeatedly interjected the phrase “M16s and the like” and asserted “the AR-15 is the M16.”...
Read MoreFollowing is the written testimony of FRC Senior Fellow, David Kopel, to the Colorado House Judiciary Committee on HB24 -1292, entitled “Prohibit Certain Weapons Used in Mass Shootings” Some of the factual findings of HB24-1292 are fabrications, as will be described in Part I. The...
Read MoreDonald Kilmer is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Lincoln University Law School, where his courses include Second Amendment and Firearms Law. He is co-author of the third edition of the textbook Firearms Law and the Second Amendment. Politicians and activists calling for more gun...
Read MoreWhy do civilians own AR-15s? This is one of the questions I hear most frequently when people learn I study American gun culture. Sometimes genuine curiosity motivates the question, but more often it is a statement masquerading as a question: Civilians should not be able...
Read MoreThe Seventh Circuit recently held in Bevis v. City of Naperville, — F.3d — (7th Cir. Nov. 3, 2023), that AR-15s are not “arms” protected by the Second Amendment because they are “almost the same” as machine guns and other weapons “exclusively or predominantly useful...
Read MoreE. Gregory Wallace is a Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law, where his constitutional law courses include a course on the Second Amendment. He has written and spoken extensively about “assault weapons.” He is co-author of the third edition of the textbook...
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