WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to the bans on semiautomatic ...

After fifteen re-listings, on June 2 the Supreme Court denied cert in Snope v. Brown, which concerns Maryland's ban on semiautomatic rifles, and Ocean ...

Given the political volatility of the "gun control" issue, Congress has historically been torn between constituents who support the Second Amendment and those who wish to criminalize various forms ...

Back in 1995, the Tennessee Law Review published a symposium issue on the Second Amendment and firearms policy. That symposium was probably the most influential law review symposium ever published ...

Those of us who are not gun fetishists are supposed to "keep our powder dry" on the subject, but it must be said: The Second Amendment is as antique as a muzzle-loaded long gun, and should be ...

But Justice Stevens’s prominence and the response to his position have brought national attention to the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Many modern Americans find the language of the ...

In theory, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Heller and its 2010 decision in McDonald, the Second Amendment was supposed to mean something. Certain policy choices for legislators ...

It was a stirring moment because Heston dramatized the belief that an individual’s right to own guns is enshrined in the Second Amendment. The amendment declares that a “well-regulated Militia ...

If you've lived in America, you've heard those words spoken with feeling. The feeling may have been forceful, even vehement. The same words can be heard uttered in bitterness, as if in blame.

To listen to the gun lobby, the Second Amendment provides an absolute constitutional right for an individual to own an array of armaments and ammunition free from regulation by the state.

The court, which has decided very few Second Amendment cases, will consider whether the government may disarm people subject to restraining orders for domestic abuse. By Adam Liptak and Glenn ...

The Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees gun rights for millions of Americans and has contributed to the United States becoming the most heavily armed population in the world.