The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to vacate lower court rulings in several gun rights cases and remand them back to lower courts for review “in light of” last week’s landmark 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen. Among these cases...
New York would require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials could verify their ‘character and conduct’ under a bill being considered Friday by the state Legislature. The provision was part of a proposed...
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have written up some comments on the latest Donohue et al. paper on concealed carry. For some perspective, you can see the academic literature on the issue here and the Amicus brief that we filed with a literature survey here....
The Democrats and the news media are making predictions of disaster for the recent Supreme Court decision on guns. Their fears are completely misplaced. "Lives are on the line," President Joe Biden warned after the Supreme Court held last week,...
After the 2020 presidential election, President Trump found that all the best lawyers were forced to not take the cases because their firms gave them the ultimatum: withdraw from representing Trump or withdraw from the firm. Apparently, because they represented...
"Because the State of New York issues public-carry licenses only when an applicant demonstrates a special need for self-defense, we conclude that the State's licensing regime violates the Constitution."From the SCOTUS opinion, June 23, 2022. The Supreme Court has...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on how the NYC Subway shooting will impact that U.S. Supreme Court case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Bruen that deals with New York's May Issue concealed handgun...
With Virginia switching sides, there are now 27 states that back striking down New York's May Issue requirements for concealed carry, and only 17 states and the District of Columbia that support keeping the "proper cause" requirement before permits are issued. A copy...
The impact of this case has a chance to go much farther than just whether people need to provide a “good reason” for being able to protect themselves and their families.
The State of New York has put in its response in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen case that will be heard by the Supreme Court on November 3rd. The New York state response brief starts off making this point: “In 1897, this Court said that it...
There are a couple additional briefs in the upcoming Supreme Court Case Of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen that cite the CPRC's research (we had already shows one from the states of Arizona and Missouri). All the briefs are available here. Our...
The CPRC has put together an Amicus brief on the concealed carry case that will be heard by the Supreme Court in October. It is available to read here. All the briefs are available here.