"The Supreme Court, or at least the Republican appointees, has shown they have a ton of zeal for basically cannibalizing and eliminating common sense gun control regulation." Leah Litman, law professor and co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast (with Melissa Murray), weighs in on how the justices might rule on semi-automatic weapons bans.
In its next term, the Supreme Court will hear a major consolidated case on assault weapon bans and whether the Second Amendment protects the right to possess AR-15s and semiautomatic rifles. Semi-automatic rifles are “the weapon of choice” for somebody looking to harm large groups of people, says Mark Barden, whose son, Daniel, was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Law professor Leah Litman says the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has shown “they have a ton of zeal for basically cannibalizing and eliminating common sense gun control regulation.”
Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was murdered in the Sandy Hook mass shooting reacts to an upcoming case on the Supreme Court's docket centering around assault weapons and the Second Amendment.
‘Mass murderers use silencers’
President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Robert Cekada as ATF Director represents a deliberate course correction. For far too many years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) drifted from the mission Congress intended when it created the agency. Instead of concentrating its resources on violent criminals, firearms traffickers, bombings, arson investigations, and […] The post ATF’s Return to Its True Mission appeared first on StoneZone .
President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Robert Cekada as ATF Director represents a deliberate course correction. For far too many years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) drifted from the mission Congress intended when it created the agency. Instead of concentrating its resources on violent criminals, firearms traffickers, bombings, arson investigations, and organized criminal enterprises ATF increasingly became entangled in regulatory battles that alienated law abiding gun owners. President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Robert Cekada as ATF Director represents a deliberate course correction that restores the agency to its original purpose and, in doing so, strengthens both public safety and…Open
Allen argued many of the suit’s arguments didn’t apply to him
‘It makes perfect sense that more folks than ever are buying silencers’
The rule was invalid on Second Amendment grounds
‘Among the most popular firearms in the nation’