Amy Swearer is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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After mass public shootings in Colorado and Virginia last month, President Joe Biden appeared to call for a ban on all semiautomatic firearms. Biden told… Read More
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In a case called New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court in June struck down concealed carry permitting frameworks in… Read More
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In a press conference defending the state’s new restrictions on concealed carry permit holders, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, told reporters last month:… Read More
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President Joe Biden’s most recent speech on gun control showed, once again, that he has little respect for gun owners or the Second Amendment. Consider,… Read More
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President Joe Biden recently gave a speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, touting his “Safer America Plan” and a gun control bill he had signed into law…. Read More
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I testified before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee last month in a hearing focused on “the economic toll of gun violence.” Of course, there’s no doubt… Read More
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The Supreme Court in June struck down a New York law that effectively prohibited ordinary citizens from carrying handguns in public for self-defense. As some… Read More
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The Supreme Court on Thursday issued its first significant opinion in a Second Amendment case in well over a decade, striking down a New York… Read More
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President Joe Biden may assure the American people that his progressive gun control efforts would not “in any way” impinge on the Second Amendment, but… Read More
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Tragedies like those recently suffered in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, cause many Americans to voice an understandable—if misguided—urge for politicians to “just do… Read More
