Although President Donald Trump has been entrusted with control of the nation's vast military might, including its nuclear weapons, he is not allowed to own a gun. He lost that right as a result of 34 state felony convictions involving falsification of business records. Whatever you think of the legally dubious case underlying those convictions, this situation makes no sense as a matter of public safety. It epitomizes the absurdly broad criteria that bar Americans from possessing firearms under federal law.

A federal appeals court upheld Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons Tuesday in an opinion that found regulating “excessively dangerous weapons,” including the AR-15, compatible with the Second Amendment.

The judges of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 10-5 to affirm a lower court decision upholding the ban. The full 4th Circuit heard the case in March.

Pundits say politics makes strange bedfellows, but what about a criminal conviction? 

After Hunter Biden was found guilty on all charges in special counsel David Weiss' federal gun case against the first son, Second Amendment groups have called the law used to convict Biden unconstitutional. The same groups vigorously oppose his father, President Biden, and his position on gun control — though they are not necessarily leaping to Hunter's defense. 

FBI officials conducting a top-secret security clearance review for a longtime employee asked witnesses whether that employee was known to support former President Donald Trump, if he had expressed concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine or had attended a Second Amendment rally, according to internal memos that prompted a complaint to the Justice Department’s internal watchdog alleging political bias inside the bureau.

The recent tweet proclaiming “Free Hunter Biden” originated from an unusual source: a popular conservative YouTube personality known as Iraqveteran8888.

Eric Blandford, whose 2.7 million subscribers tune in to watch him shoot guns and shoot-the-breeze about politics, is no fan of President Biden or his son (He called the younger Biden “the deepest swamp monster”).

New York may become the first state to bar gun companies from selling pistols that can easily be converted into machine guns.

A proposed law, introduced Tuesday by Democratic state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, takes aim squarely at Glock. The Austrian company, whose polymer-framed pistols have played a dominant role in the handgun market since the 1980s, has faced growing criticism from gun safety groups for declining to modify a design that easily converts into an automatic weapon.

Supreme Court rulings this term will advance federal law on the powers of the presidency and the administrative state and clarify decisions in recent years on abortion and the Second Amendment.

Last week, the justices heard final arguments of the 2023 term in cases that test whether cities can fine homeless encampments that create public health and safety concerns, whether emergency rooms must perform abortions in states that ban the procedure, and whether former President Donald Trump has absolute immunity from criminal charges.

A ruling by Hawaii's high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit cites crime-drama TV series “The Wire” and invokes the “spirit of Aloha” in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide.

“The thing about the old days, they the old days,” the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court ruling issued Wednesday said, borrowing a quote from season four, episode three of the HBO series to express that the culture from the founding of the country shouldn't dictate contemporary life.

In the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court explicitly recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms. It reaffirmed that conclusion two years later in McDonald v. Chicago, which applied the Second Amendment to the states via the 14th Amendment. And in the 2022 case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Court held that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" extends beyond the home.