State v. Curry, a new decision from the Tennessee Supreme Court, provides a good illustration of how complicated it can be to determine whether a felon’s prior conviction was for a “crime of violence,” for purposes of being barred from owning firearms. Justice Roger Page...
Read MoreIn this installment of the the NRA's Legal Scholar Interview Series, G.S. Greenlee interviews Second Amendment Scholar Jamie G. McWilliam to discuss his recent articles, "The Relevance of Common Use After Bruen" and "Refining the Dangerousness Standard in Felon Disarmament". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7amYuJmGMTM
Read MoreIn United States v. Rahimi, the Supreme Court held that an individual who has been judged to pose a clear threat to another can be temporarily disarmed consistent with our history and tradition of firearm regulation. In doing so, the Court clarified that in...
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2024 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreThis post is based on a paper that was presented at the 2024 Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Conference. The Conference is held each year on a home-and-away basis with the Duke University Center for Firearms Law. This post also appears on the CFL’s Second Thoughts blog....
Read MoreYesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted, vacated, and remanded for reconsideration in light of United States v. Rahimi eight Second Amendment decisions pending writs of certiorari. All but one of the cases have to do with persons prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law. Five...
Read MoreSean Phillips is a rising third year law student at Fordham University School of Law. He is a Senior Articles Editor on Fordham Law Review, where his note, Long Range Analogizing After Bruen: How to Resolve the Circuit Split on the Federal Felon-In-Possession Ban, was published...
Read MoreOn November 7, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the only Second Amendment merits case this term, United States v. Rahimi. (Docket page.) In that case, twenty-one amicus briefs urged the Court to affirm the Fifth Circuit's decision. On October 25, the Solicitor General, who...
Read MoreF. Lee Francis is an assistant professor of law at Mississippi College School of Law. This post is adapted from my forthcoming article Defining Dangerousness: When Disarmament is Appropriate. In 1964, the United State Supreme Court, in Jacobellis v. Ohio, undertook to determine whether the...
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