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Swords crossed in the challenge to NY’s "may issue" permit system
Only Guns and Money has the update . It’s the usual beginning to a test case: defendant files an “everything but the kitchen sink” motion to dismiss.
Full StoryChallenge to DC’s ban on carrying
Brian Doherty has an article on it in Reason Today . Heller was a “keep arms” case, this will be the “bear arms” one.
Full StoryInteresting post Heller case
Right here . Plaintiff challenges California’s “may issue” CCW statute, and a federal district court at least says that his claim survives a motion to dismiss. Hat tip to Gene Hoffman….
Full StoryMore on the NFA database errors
David Codrea goes into it here . Essentially, it’s a federal felony to have an unregistered NFA firearm (machine gun, short barreled rifle or shotgun, etc.).
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Right here , courtesy of Josh Blackman. It’s video of a panel involving myself, Josh, Ilya Shapiro, and Prof
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“Ducking the Bullet: District of Columbia v. Heller and the Stevens Dissent”
Full StoryInterpreting text
People hate lawyers because 99% of them give the rest of us a bad reputation. People hate law profs because some think and speak like this : “Larry seems to argue that our own normative or empirical notions cannot play a role in fixing the semantic content of constitutional text: In his words, the belief that “semantic content is determined after the fact of communication on the basis of what we would like an utterance to have meant given our practical concerns” is a “fundamentally confused” way to think about interpretation (page 103)
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