SCOTUS Gun Watch – Week of 11/20/23
The Court released an orders list this morning but there is no order yet in Range, which was considered at last Friday’s conference. The response in United States v. Daniels – an as-applied Second...
View ArticleSCOTUS Gun Watch – Week of 11/27/23
There’s not much activity to report on this week due to the holiday. The Range petition, which was distributed for consideration at the November 17 conference, appears to still be under review and the...
View ArticleRahimi and the Original Scope of the Commerce Clause
The amicus briefs filed in support of Rahimi at the Supreme Court include a wide variety of arguments against the constitutionality of the federal domestic violence restraining order ban in 18 U.S.C. §...
View ArticleLitigation Highlight: Sixth Circuit Hears Oral Argument in Shooting Range...
This guest post does not necessarily represent the views of the Duke Center for Firearms Law. In the past year, federal district courts across America have seen Bruen-fueled challenges to all manner of...
View ArticleSCOTUS Gun Watch – Week of 12/4/23
The Court isn’t set to issue an orders list this morning; rather, the final list of the calendar year will come next Monday, December 11. The major case to watch from a Second Amendment perspective is...
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The Center’s Recent Symposium with the Notre Dame Law Review
On November 3, 2023, the Center co-hosted a symposium at Notre Dame Law School in partnership with the Notre Dame Law Review on the theme of History, Tradition, and Analogical Reasoning. The symposium...
View ArticleFirearms Law in the Shadow of War
This guest post does not necessarily represent the views of the Duke Center for Firearms Law. The eyes of the world are on the catastrophe that has been unfolding in Israel/Palestine with the Hamas...
View ArticleSCOTUS Gun Watch – Week of 12/11/23
The Court released an orders list this morning (likely its final list of the calendar year), but the list does not contain a determination on the Range petition. It’s possible the Court will simply...
View ArticleIs the Bruen Test Binding Law? – Part I
This guest post does not necessarily represent the views of the Duke Center for Firearms Law. In the 2022 case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled...
View ArticleIs the Bruen Test Binding Law? – Part II
This guest post does not necessarily represent the views of the Duke Center for Firearms Law. Part II: Bruen as Precedent My previous post argued that we shouldn’t take for granted that the...
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