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Newsom signs gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial gun control bill modeled after Texas’ vigilante abortion law on Friday, teeing up a legal battle with a U.S. Supreme Court friendly to Second Amendment groups and firearm owners.

Los Angeles Times

Abortion, racism, guns and the right

Do things change? An early version of the racist "great replacement" theory drove the campaign to outlaw abortion

Salon

Second Amendment Rights of People Briefly Hospitalized for Mental Health Reasons Long Ago?

From Judge Dale Drozd's opinion in Clifton v. U.S. DOJ (E.D. Cal.), filed Friday: In 2001, plaintiff was in eighth grade at Mt. Vernon Middle School in Los Angeles, California. He was thirteen years old at the time. Because plaintiff's mother had passed away and he never knew his father,…

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War on California gun laws revs up after Supreme Court’s ‘right to carry’ decision

LOS ANGELES — For years, the relationship between Miranda and Richard Wallingford and their Huntington Beach neighbor Jessica Nguyen has been unhappy — if not outright hostile.

Los Angeles Times

This Lawsuit Says a Recent SCOTUS Decision Makes It Clear That 'Assault Weapon' Bans Are Unconstitutional

The Supreme Court unambiguously rejected the sort of reasoning that a federal appeals court used to uphold New York's ban.

Reason

AP Stylebook on "Assault Weapon," "Assault Rifle," and "Semi-Automatic Weapon"

I don't agree with everything in the AP Stylebook, but I think this guidance is sound (and I think it's generally useful for prominent media organizations to offer such suggestions to writers): https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1547309549488640000 Thanks to Alan Gottlieb (Second Amendment Foundation) for pointing this out.

Reason

Matt Gaetz claims active shooter alert bill designed to make people ‘hate’ Second Amendment rights

Bill would create local alert system

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California enacts sweeping gun control laws, setting up a legal showdown

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against restrictions on carrying firearms in public in a substantial victory for Second Amendment advocates, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed at least three major gun control measures into law to restrict access to the weapons and…

Los Angeles Times

HC quashes Telangana VAT (Second Amendment) Act

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John M. Crisp: The Founding Fathers never meant to tie our hands on guns

Remember Uvalde? Does it seem that our memory of the shocking murder of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers has faded too quickly?

Tribune News Service

Father of man arrested in Highland Park shooting liked Second Amendment tweet after Uvalde school massacre

Robert Crimo has been arrested by police after six people were shot dead in the latest US mass shooting

The Independent UK

Editorial: Conservatives no more: Supreme Court’s ruling on EPA’s right to regulate greenhouse gases is a capper on a radical term

First, a “textualist” Supreme Court majority ignored the Second Amendment clause attaching gun rights to “a well regulated Militia.” Cherry-picking history to claim that carrying a weapon has always been protected, the “conservatives” killed a century-old New York statute regulating the concealed carry of firearms and elevated a newly contrived…

Tribune News Service

‘I will never be against the second amendment’: Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike on rap, racism and gun control

After almost a decade of working alongside El-P, the rapper is releasing a solo single. He talks about the chaos and loss that inspired it, his friendship with Bernie Sanders and the ‘racist’ twisting of lyrics

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re fools for not doing it’: Why some LGBT+ Americans are turning to guns amid a rising wave of hate

As threats and violence increase to a fever pitch, some LGBT+ people believe it’s time for their community to embrace the Second Amendment, writes Io Dodds

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SCOTUS Vacates 4 Decisions Upholding Gun Control Laws Whose Constitutionality Now Looks Doubtful

The Court told appeals courts to reconsider their conclusions in light of last week's ruling against New York's restrictions on public possession of firearms.

The Independent UK

‘We’re fools for not doing it’: Why some LGBT+ Americans are turning to guns amid a rising wave of hate

As threats and violence increase to a fever pitch, some LGBT+ people believe it’s time for their community to embrace the Second Amendment, writes Io Dodds

Chicago Sun-Times

Judge looks to Supreme Court gun ruling as he weighs whether to shoot down Chicago ban on laser sights

U.S. District Judge Robert Dow Jr. has asked lawyers in a Chicago gun-rights suit to weigh in on whether Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion affects the city’s ban.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Banning ‘concealed carry’ laws is a disaster

After the recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, Congress enacted the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most important gun violence prevention law in three decades. But days earlier, on June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Inc. v.…

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Editorial: The good guys vs. the gun lobby: Gov. Hochul and AG James try to keep New York’s streets safe after the Supreme Court opens the firearm floodgates

Under the twisted vision of the Supreme Court majority, states and localities are now barred from deciding who can get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. While it’s allowed to ban felons, require training and the like, six justices’ absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment rules out requiring people…

The Independent UK

‘We’re fools for not doing it’: Why some LGBT+ Americans are turning to guns amid a rising wave of hate

As threats and violence increase to a fever pitch, some LGBT+ people believe it’s time for their community to embrace the Second Amendment, writes Io Dodds

The Conversation

American gun culture is based on frontier mythology – but ignores how common gun restrictions were in the Old West

In the wake of the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings, 70% of Republicans said it is more important to protect gun rights than to control gun violence, while 92% of Democrats and 54% of independents expressed the opposite view. Just weeks after those mass shootings, Republicans and gun rights advocates…

Reason

Bruen, Originalism, and Post-Enactment Practice

What role should liquidation play in originalism?

Reason

Bruen's Originalist Analogical Reasoning Applies A Presumption of Liberty

A new framework for originalist judging.

Reason

Bruen Bids Farewell To The Two-Step Test

The Court abrogated a decade of circuit court precedent, and vitiated mountains of Second Amendment scholarship.

Reason

SCOTUS Rejects 'Interest-Balancing' Tests That Treated the Second Amendment As a 'Constitutional Orphan'

The ruling against New York's carry permit policy is a rebuke to courts that routinely rubber-stamp gun restrictions.

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