Heller Decision

Although the Chicago handgun ban Supreme Court case involves interesting constitutional issues, even if Chicago loses, such a ruling is unlikely to prove a serious threat to state and local gun regulation across-the-board.

In 2006 alone, 31 American kids under the age of 10 were killed in unintentional shootings and 187 were injured. The numbers increase substantially with older children.

Why is gun control considered a "cultural" issue, when those who value guns support various forms of gun control?

Today's Gallup news release, "Support for Gun-Control Laws at All-Time Lows," is one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time.

Last year at this time, I said that America was turning a corner on the gun issue, and the watershed events of 2008 confirmed that prediction. The pa...

The Roberts Court might not just be moving in the wrong direction, but in a direction that presents a direct threat to the rule of law and our very democracy.

The NRA leadership likes to talk a lot about freedom, but when it comes to their political advertising and direct-mail literature, they must mean the "freedom" to distort and deceive.

It was national news on June 26 when the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's strict gun laws and declared that the Second Amendment gu...

Yesterday, the House adopted the gun lobby agenda that nothing should ever be done to "discourage" gun ownership and possession.

A closer examination of her background reveals that Palin has embraced views on gun ownership that are ideologically extreme even by the standards of gun rights advocates.

Smith & Wesson, which manufactures a revolver that can penetrate the body armor has issued a special "commemorative" revolver to celebrate the end of a law strongly supported by the police.

The Second Amendment has always put me in a quandary, but Scalia's opinion was not an honest attempt at sorting it out. It was a sophistical, political decision of just the type that he rails against.

So much for Scalia's much-vaunted "originalism," which advocates reading the Constitution as it would have been understood at the time of the Founding.

When the dust settles, most Americans -- and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement -- will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.

While the gun lobby may crack open that bottle of champagne, this is a victory that thrives in theory, but one that, in practice, can only be condemned.

A government that cannot protect people should not deprive them of the right to protect themselves -- and the the D.C. gun ban did just that.

If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.

The Heller decision will most likely embolden criminal defendants, and ideological extremists, to file new legal attacks on existing gun laws.

Today's Heller decision marks the biggest triumph so far for gun rights advocates. It establishes what was for so long denied, and the the gun control debate will never be the same.

If Scalia and Stevens were competent historians, then it might be worth reading what they write. But they are not. Both offer selective readings of history to support what seem to be pre-determined positions.

In the wake of today's Supreme Court ruling, the Bush administration has announced that it's ordering all citizens of voting age to possess firearms as a preventive measure against terrorist attacks.

There are some striking similarities between the Heller decision and Bush v. Gore. In both cases, the Court articulates a "new" right to be recognized by the Courts.

Does the right to keep and bear arms apply directly to the People or to the States? How you answer this question ultimately determines whether or not you believe in an individual's right to own a gun.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling fortifying 2nd Amendment gun rights, reactions are pouring in from politicians, pundits and bloggers. Barack Oba...

WASHINGTON — Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming th...