If you’re a gun-rights group challenging the law in California then you want to be before Judge Benitez. He has become the most vigorous defender of gun rights in the federal courts today. Adam WinklerLaw professor at the University of … Continue reading
Where did Michaels Bellesiles go wrong? Not when he took on the gun lovers. They’re used to being attacked. Not when he made a surprising discovery about an important facet of live in early America. Historians do that all the … Continue reading
Focusing on assault weapons played right into the hands of the NRA, which has for years been saying that Obama wanted to ban guns. Gun control advocates ridiculed that idea—then proposed to ban the most popular rifle in America. Adam … Continue reading
The court says, for instance, that the Heller decision does not mean to cast doubt on longstanding bans on felons having possession of firearms, or bans on the mentally incompetent having possession of weapons, bans on weapons in sensitive places … Continue reading
Quote of the Day What this third circuit opinion shows is that there are very few gun laws that are safe from being struck down right now. Adam WinklerLaw professor at the University of California, Los AngelesJuly 18, 2026Federal court … Continue reading
Quote of the Day Is that law evidence that [the] government has the power to ban dangerous people from possessing firearms, because people thought that African Americans and other racial minorities were dangerous?” Adam WinklerUCLA Law ProfessorSeptember 21, 2024The Supreme Court … Continue reading
Quote of the Day There are good arguments to be made, but the court didn’t offer them. Adam WinklerUCLA law professorOctober 11, 20239th Circuit stays ruling against California ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines The 9th Circuit put a stay on … Continue reading
The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health had a Gun Policy Summit in January. Of course with Michael Bloomberg involved you know it’s all about pushing an anti-gun agenda. I find it instructive to see how they accomplished this … Continue reading
Adam Winkler whines: Without impassioned grassroots financing, the nation’s gun control organizations are struggling to stay afloat. Just a few months ago, the founder of one gun control advocacy group told me she’d run out of money and was expecting … Continue reading
One of the most anti-gun demographics are black women. Here is a story by Joshunda Sanders that indicates things may be changing and may help affect that change: That sense of vulnerability and fear followed me into adulthood, when I … Continue reading