Outside the Beltway

The legal distinction between “personal capacity” and “official capacity” makes no sense for senior presidential appointees.

The inevitable response to announcements by the big box stores that they would not sell guns to those under 21 has arrived.

Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.

Is it legal for retail businesses to restrict gun sales based on age? The short answer appears to be yes.

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell “assault weapons” at any of its stores, and will limit the sale of any gun to people aged 21 and above.

I don’t see how the state legislature making tax decisions on the basis of the public position an company takes is legal under the 14th Amendment. 

If a law enforcement officer with 30 years of experience can’t stop an active school shooter, what makes anyone think a teacher with a gun can?

Since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller four separate Federal appellate courts have ruled that state and local laws banning “assault weapons” do not violate the Second Amendment.

Continuing a pattern that has gone on for eight years now, the Supreme Court has declined to hear another appeal regarding a Second Amendment challenge to state gun control laws.

Phil Carter makes an interesting argument but he’s ultimately mistaken.

Three U.S. cities are suing the Federal Government over the failure to properly report military convictions to the national gun background check database.

President Trump has formally endorsed an accused child molester for the United States Senate.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear yet another Second Amendment case.

After initially signaling support for a bill banning ‘bump stocks,’ Republicans in Congress now appear to be hoping someone else will act for them.

The District of Columbia has decided not to risk an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down its restrictive concealed-carry law.

Don’t hold your breath, but the Las Vegas shooting may actually prompt Congress to do something.

Some interesting statistics.

The Las Vegas shooting provides a good opportunity to enact a common sense gun control law that even Second Amendment advocates agree is called for.

A Federal Appeals Court has declined to review a panel decision striking down the District of Columbia’s restrictive concealed-carry law.

Not surprisingly, the District of Columbia is seeking review of last month’s decision on its concealed-carry law by the full Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Authorities are being second-guessed over their handling of Saturday’s protests. Virginia gun laws are the more obvious problem.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the District of Columbia’s restrictive concealed-carry law.

The Supreme Court has once again declined to hear an appeal in a Second Amendment case.

Wayne LaPierre’s perverted view of the world in two sentences.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Maryland’s ban on certain so-called “assault weapons,” but it’s unclear if the Supreme Court will even take up the case.

Last night’s debate, sadly, lived down to my expectations.

Did Donald Trump really suggest assassination as a political weapon, even as a joke? It sure sounds like it.

Continuing a pattern that began six years ago, the Supreme Court has again declined to hear an appeal in a case involving a challenge to state gun control laws.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals deals a setback to the gun rights movement.

A Connecticut Judge has allowed a lawsuit against the manufacturer and seller of the weapons used in the Sandy Hook Shootings to go forward, but a Federal Law appears to make dismissal inevitable.

Two Republicans who broke with their party to support hearings for Judge Merrick Garland have changed their minds and gotten back in line with the Senate GOP Caucus.

At least one DHS official seems to be against the idea of using no-fly list to stop people from buying firearms.

Two new polls show that political efforts to enact more stringent gun control at the national level are not likely to succeed.

A new poll shows an up-tick in public support for some gun control measures, but gun control advocates can’t ignore the political reality that says those restrictions are unlikely to ever become law.

Linking view on guns to political self-identity.

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In a setback for the gun rights movement, the Supreme Court has let stand a San Francisco law that places tough restrictions on handgun ownership.

A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,

As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.

New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.

In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.

Assuming it accepts the appeal, Utah is giving the Supreme Court its high profile case for the October 2015 Term.