New Jersey restricts when people can use weapons like knives, slingshots, and pepper spray in public for self-defense. Gun owners are challenging that law in federal court.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Gun rights advocacy groups in Maine are taking legal action to ...

WASHINGTON – In the 1897 Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula couldn’t enter a room without being invited. In a Supreme Court case the justices will hear on Jan. 20, gun rights advocates charge ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Firearms owners added another prong to their campaign against a sweeping Massachusetts law, filing a new federal lawsuit late last week challenging its constitutionality. While other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli ...

A trial over the constitutionality of Illinois’ ban on certain high-powered firearms ended this week after four days of arguments and now is in the hands of a federal judge who is expected to make a ...

The lawsuit aims to have a federal judge declare the prohibitions illegal and unenforceable under the Second Amendment.

WASHINGTON − Two gun organizations are challenging a 1927 law prohibiting mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service. Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation, together with Pennsylvania ...

Circuit Judge Eric Tung, however, said California did not show that ATF forced it to spend more to train law enforcement and speed up its own ghost gun legislation, while Giffords ...

The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to the gun laws in Connecticut and Cook County, Ill., that ban most semiautomatic assault weapons. Before leaving for ...