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Firearm case law in the United States is based on decisions of the Supreme Court and other federal courts.Each of these decisions deals with the Second Amendment (which is a part of the Bill of Rights), the right to keep and bear arms, the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, and/or other federal firearms laws.
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles ...
After striking down the two-step test (formerly used by Courts of Appeals addressing Second Amendment issues), Bruen identified the new originalist test courts must use on Second Amendment cases. The Court held: "When the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct [here the right to bear arms], the Constitution presumptively ...
Here is a look at some of the cases the justices are due to decide. Another major gun rights dispute is coming to the justices as they are poised to decide whether a 1994 federal law that bars ...
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) The Second Amendment protects an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense in public, outside the home; firearms regulations challenged on constitutional grounds must be evaluated against the "history and tradition" of such laws in the U.S. United States v.
A federal judge denied a request to dismiss a gun charge against an illegal immigrant in Ohio, rejecting the man's claim that he has Second Amendment rights.
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
Outside of free-speech cases, Dhillon has represented the National Association for Gun Rights in recent years in a Second Amendment case in California. ... In many of the lawsuits, ...