The arguments represent a test of the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision, which set a new standard for gun rights, requiring regulations to be consistent with the nation's historical tradition protecting gun rights.

Jared’s point is that a lot of modern arguments treat the Second Amendment like it appeared out of nowhere in 1791. He says that’s backwards, because the thinking that later became the Second Amendment was already baked into the Founders’ public explanations while they were trying to “sell” the Constitution in 1787 and 1788.

A short excerpt from today's very long opinion in Baird v. Bonta by Judge Lawrence VanDyke, joined by Judge Kenneth Lee:

WASHINGTON — The criminal indictment against Hunter Biden for illegal gun possession could run afoul of the new and broader 2nd Amendment interpretation that has been gaining traction in conservative courts. President Biden’s son is not accused of ...

The Supreme Court’s Bruen decision has given rise to some disturbing new interpretations of what constitutes the right to bear arms. Late last year, I wrote about the fallout from the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last summer in New York State Rifle ...

This is a military historian’s view of the Second Amendment, which, in a historical context, is a military clause directly linked to national defense and the kind of military force required to meet that end. The Constitution contains clauses granting ...