Gun Rights

  • United States v. Cruikshank

    92 U.S. 542 (1876)

    Do the First and Second Amendments prevent the states or private actors from restricting the right to assemble or to keep and bear arms?

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    Presser v. Illinois

    116 U.S. 252 (1886)

    Does the Second Amendment prevent states from enacting laws that restrict the right to form a militia?

  • Photo in Dallas County, 1893, of Main Street looking west, toward a ghostly courthouse | Credit: Pamela Bosse, Photo by: Clifton Church

    Miller v. Texas

    15 U.S. 535 (1894)

    Does the Second Amendment prevent states from enacting laws that restrict the right to keep and bear arms?

  • United States v. Miller

    307 US 174 (1939)

    Does the Second Amendment‘s protection of the right to keep and bear arms include the right to own a sawed-off double-barrell shotgun?

  • Dick Heller with his newly approved gun permit at the DC Police Department after the Supreme Court ruled in his favor in the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller | Credit : Mark Wilson/Getty Images

    District of Columbia v. Heller

    554 U.S. 570 (2008)

    Does the Second Amendment protect an individual right to keep and bear arms?

  • Otis McDonald speaking at a news conference with his legal team outside the Supreme Court June 28, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The court overturned Chicago's ban on handguns, a victory for McDonald and gun rights groups | Credit: Brendan Hoffman/Getty

    McDonald v. City of Chicago

    561 U.S. 742 (2010)

    Does the Second Amendment’s protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms extend to the states?

  • From the AP. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/21/supreme-court-stun-gun-second-amendment/76313848/

    Caetano v. Massachusetts

    577 U.S. 411 (2016)

    Does the Second Amendment‘s protection of the right to keep and bear arms include the right to own a stun gun?

  • New York State Rifle & Pistol Association president Tom King poses for a photo Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in East Greenbush, N.Y. (AP File Photo/Hans Pennink)

    New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen

    597 U.S. __ (2022)

    Does the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms extend to outside of the home?

  • Garland v. Cargill

    602 U.S. 406 (2024)

    Does a bump stock transform a semiautomatic rifle into a “machinegun” as defined by the National Firearms Act of 1934?

  • United States v. Rahimi

    602 U.S. __ (2024)

    Does the prohibition of the possession of firearms by people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders violate the Second Amendment?