The Second Amendment News Today

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court sharply criticized recent precedents expanding the right to bear arms.

The decision rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment.

Rejecting a challenge to the state's strict gun laws, the court is openly contemptuous of Second Amendment precedents.

California made carry permits easier to obtain but nearly impossible to use.

The court upheld several other location-specific gun bans, along with the state's "good moral character" requirement for a carry permit.

“It is absurd to limit the Constitution’s meaning in 2023 to what was thought over 200 years ago,” writes the UC Berkeley Law School Dean.

The court has a rare opportunity to fix the problem it created without losing face.

Last year, when it struck down New York’s concealed-carry law, the Supreme Court upended how the courts scrutinize gun regulations by creating an unusual new test for them: Their constitutionality must be weighed by whether or not similar laws existed when the Second Amendment was ratified all the way back in 1791.“When the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct,” Justice Clarence Thoma...

The Supreme Court is considering how to apply the Second Amendment in United States v. Rahimi, a case about domestic violence and gun rights.

Read the Express-News letters to the editor for May 14.