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New York, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island limit who has the right to carry a weapon in public.

Toggle open close The Declaration of Independence cataloged the ways in which King George III infringed upon American liberties. Among King George’s offenses listed in the Declaration was “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” The king claimed the authority to seize American colonists and force them to stand trial in Great Britain for criminal offenses allegedly committed in America. Almost 250 years later, another foreign tribunal—the International Crimin...

NationofChange A court has ruled that the EPA must ban the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos—or prove its safety. , a project of the Independent Media Institute. A federal appeals court has ruled that unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove that the pesticide chlorpyrifos is safe, it must be banned. The chemical, which has been widely used on agricultural crops for more than 50 years, has been linked to neurological development issues in children, with mo...

A pesticide linked to brain damage in children could finally be banned (Photo credit: IFPRI/Flickr) Killing bugs, killing us: "Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the United States each year," writes Michael C.R. Alavanja, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute. "As a consequence; it has been estimated that as many as 25 million agricultural workers worldwide experience unintentional pesticide poisonings each year." A federal appeals court has ruled that...

King George’s offenses included “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” Back then, the king presumed to have the authority to seize American colonists and prosecute them in Great Britain. America went to war to end that practice and other injustices. Fast-forward to about 20 years ago, when Congress passed the American Service-members’ Protection Act of 2002 in anticipation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court entering into force. Congres...

Biden Must Protect US Citizens From International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court—seen here May 26, 2016, speaking to reporters at the U.N. in New York—is investigating U.S. officials from the George W. Bush administration for alleged abuse of detainees in Afghanistan. The U.S. rejects the courts jurisdiction as the United States is not party to the Rome Statute. (Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/ LightRocket/Getty Images) Commentary By ...

Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so Share Copy A federal appeals court has overturned a district court order preventing plans for 3D-printed guns from being shared online. In a ruling [PDF] on Tuesday, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction obtained in March 2020 by 22 states and the District of Columbia that blocked a State Department rule change removing 3D-printed guns and associated digital files from the US Munitions List, which enumerates...

Heres more from Courthouse News Service on the divided panel of judges.  In a 25-page opinion, U.S. Circuit Judges Jay Bybee, a George W. Bush appointee, and Ryan Nelson, a Donald Trump appointee, concluded that courts lack authority to review the challenged rule changes. They found a 1976 law, the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, and its subsequent amendments forbid judicial review of State Department decisions on what is considered a "defense article" subject to...

One of us is a police leader who headed police agencies in three cities, including twice in New York City, successfully reducing violent crime in each venue. The other is a lifelong public policy advocate seeking ways to reduce violence, including having helped lead the successful fights to pass the Brady Bill, ban on assault weapons and ban on large magazines. We have both worked on many different violent crime issues, and we have worked together in different cities in the United States and in ...

New York is among eight states that limit who has the right to carry a weapon in public. The others are: California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.  In the rest of the country, gun owners have little trouble legally carrying their weapons when they go out. Paul Clement, representing challengers to New Yorks permit law, said the court should use the case to settle the issue once and for all. "Thus, the nation is split, with the Second Amendment alive and...