The high court recognizes a person’s right to self-defense with firearms but has also upheld the government’s power to enforce limits on that right.
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Culture wars once arose from impromptu events that struck a nerve among Americans, but they are now started by partisan agitators who introduce them to politicians and watch them take hold.
The use of 3D-printed guns in criminal and violent activities is likely to continue to increase. And governments and police will continue to have trouble regulating them.
While Harris and Trump diverge on many key policy issues, they find common ground in other areas.
Lawyers, advocacy groups and think tanks are soliciting historians’ expertise on the history underlying certain Supreme Court cases. Yet this history-for-hire approach raises questions.
Over the past year, Ottawa has had a mixed record in implementing the Mass Casualty Commission’s firearm recommendations. Some provinces, however, have sought to limit implementation.
The government’s promised crack-down on gangs may have to work around existing legislation – and human rights provisions.
The Supreme Court in recent terms has upended the interpretation of core laws. This term, the justices will decide just how far this revolution goes.
In this course, a gun range becomes a classroom for students to explore their previously held beliefs about firearms.
The National Rifle Association is spending heavily on legal fees and slashing programs for its members.
The judicial theory has been a major talking point during the Supreme Court’s last term. But what does it actually mean?
A scholar of gun culture looks at the roots of Americans’ love affair with firearms – and their willingness to accept gun violence as a price of freedom.
After years of gridlock, Congress passed significant gun control legislation for the first time in the last 30 years.
The gun rights decision from the conservative majority on the Supreme Court signals a fundamental change in how the court reads the Constitution.
The ways Americans talk about firearms is full of contradictions, two communication scholars explain – and that powerfully shapes the country’s approach to gun policy.
The latest mass school shooting in Texas has renewed the debate about gun control. Here’s why gun advocates generally avoid discussing the harm that assault-style rifles can cause.
The nature of elected office combines with the lasting priorities of public opinion to put gun control on the back burner, even in times when it does get massive public attention.
The group, founded in 1871, didn’t try to smother virtually all gun control efforts until the mid-1970s.
Experts help explain the context around the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and subsequent trial and convictions of Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William Bryan.
America’s love-hate relationship with guns is reaching a new level.
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Political Science Department, State University of New York Cortland
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Senior Lecturer, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
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C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University
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