Out of sight, but not out of mind: The right to carry guns in public
The Ninth Circuit has established that citizens have the Second Amendment right to carry a firearm in public for personal protection. ...[Continue Reading]
Second Amendment
Articles examining gun rights.
Gun Trusts: Useful tools or subversive legal instruments?
More than half of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history have occurred within the past decade. In 2012, Americans were rocked by the news of deadly shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Aurora, Colorado. Tragedies like those that occurred in Newtown and Aurora spark renewed ...[Continue Reading]
Stop the presses, put the safeties on
Legislators aiming to control the use of 3D printers to make guns may have overshot the mark. ...[Continue Reading]
Printing Guns
In Star Trek: Insurrection, Captain Jean-Luc Picard finds himself surrounded by his slow moving yet deadly opponent, the Borg. Luckily for Picard, he has access to a “replicator”, a device that can create almost any object on request. Picard uses the replicator and requests a Tommy gun, ...[Continue Reading]
Second Amendment Rights in the Cross Hairs?: Small Arms, Big Debate
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court, in striking ...[Continue Reading]
Stand Your Ground, But Only If Reasonably Necessary
In a previous article, the Campbell Law Observer discussed the recent changes to North Carolina’s “castle doctrine,” which created a statutory presumption of a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily harm when a person uses deadly force to defend himself in his home, vehicle, or ...[Continue Reading]
