Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill
(David Kopel) Does much more than just impose background checks small-scale vendors at gun shows. Details here, in this article I wrote for the Saturday Denver Post. Copyright © 2010 This feed is for...
View ArticleThe OAS Firearms Convention Is Incompatible with American Liberties
(David Kopel) Just published on-line this morning is the above Backgrounder from the Heritage Foundation. My coauthors are Theodore Bromund and Ray Walser, of Heritage. We argue that the CIFTA gun...
View ArticlePuerto Rico law limiting use of shooting ranges
(David Kopel) An official with Puerto Rico’s Justice Department has announced that the Department will propose changes in the island’s firearms laws, to bring them into line with Heller and McDonald....
View Article“Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass”
(David Kopel) Reichskristallnacht was 72 years ago. Stephen Halbrook’s 2009 article in the St. Thomas Law Review details the close connection between the disarmament of the German Jews and what came...
View ArticleCanada abolishes long gun registry
Yesterday the Canadian Senate voted 50-27 to abolish the long gun registry. Bill C-19 received unanimous support from Conservative Senators, and some support from Liberals. The bill had previously...
View ArticleNew textbook: Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights and...
The first law school textbook on the Second Amendment is now available from Aspen Publishers. The co-author are Nick Johnson (Fordham), Michael O’Shea (Oklahoma City), George Mocsary (Connecticut), and...
View ArticleThe Great Gun Control War of the 20th Century — And its Lessons for Gun Laws...
This is the subject of my article in a forthcoming symposium issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal. The article details the political, cultural, social, and legal battles over gun control from the...
View ArticleWeapons Laws of the Russian Federation
For those of who have been waiting for an English translation of Russia’s arms statutes, your wait is over. Independence Institute intern Margot van Loon is the author of the new Issue Paper, Weapons...
View ArticleColorado Consensus on Gun Laws
In an article today for National Review Online, I detail how “Broadly supported post-Columbine reforms balance gun rights and gun control”: After the Columbine High School murders, Colorado enacted...
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