The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will decide whether cities and states may ban people from owning AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, taking up a major Second Amendment dispute that it had previously declined to address.

Less than a week after the Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law that barred gun owners with concealed-carry licenses from bringing guns onto private property unless they had explicit permission

April 9 (UPI) --The Department of Justice will have a Second Amendment Task Force tasked with protecting gun owners against governmental "overreach," Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday. "The prior administration placed an undue burden on gun ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday that it was "imperative" that the court intervene in a case ...

As Missouri Republicans push a new version of the Second Amendment Preservation Act through the legislature, law enforcement officials in the state say lawmakers and supporters of the bill are ignoring their concerns. Missouri Republican legislators are ...

Pro-Second Amendment organizations have filed lawsuits to invalidate gun laws across the country for decades, but Hughes v. Lee, involving concealed carry in Tennessee, is not the usual Second Amendment case.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard argument in Wolford v. Lopez. Most Second Amendment cases focus on who can carry arms or what kind of arms they can carry. But Wolford focuses on where people can carry. Heller and its progeny held that carry can be ...