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Charles Nichols is a proponent of open carry.  In 2011, he filed a Federal Civil Rights lawsuit seeking to overturn California’s 1967 ban on openly carrying loaded firearms in public for the purpose of lawful self-defense.  Oral argument in his case took place on February 15, 2018, before a three-judge panel of the 9th circuit court of appeals. Charles follows court cases relating to The Second Amendment and tells us what they really mean instead of what reporters, who have never read the decisions in the cases, say they mean.

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The relationship between Justice Neil Gorsuch and the Second Amendment may soon become clear.

Justice Neil Gorsuch and the Second Amendment

Sometime between this Friday evening and Monday, Appellate Judge Neil Gorsuch will become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court just in...
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The Next Second Amendment Handgun Carry Case to Go Down in...

This is a sad second amendment handgun carry case, Young v. Hawaii. The saddest fact is nothing can be done at this late stage...
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Federal Judge Tells NRA to Put Up or Shut Up in...

Federal Judge John A. Kronstadt has set a deadline of 11:59 PM, May 1st, 2017, for the NRA to amend its lawsuit seeking concealed...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Finally Recognizes the Second Amendment

During the oral arguments today before the US Supreme Court in the case of County of Los Angeles v. Mendez Justice Sotomayor grudgingly recognized...
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Another Second Amendment Appeal Shot-Down by the 9th Circuit

I have mixed feelings about the fate of this latest lawsuit out of Hawaii shot-down by the 9th circuit court of appeals last week...
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US Supreme Court to Decide Concealed Carry Petition in Two Weeks

Two weeks from today on March 24, 2017 all eight justices of the United States Supreme Court will meet in a private conference and...
The Justices of the Supreme Court of Florida as of February 8, 2017.

The Florida Supreme Court Just Handed The US Supreme Court a...

The Florida Supreme Court just handed the US Supreme Court a Second Amendment case it can't refuse.In a 4-2-0 decision, the Florida Supreme Court...
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California Asks Supreme Court to Wait For Nichols v. Brown Open...

The National Rifle Association filed a cert petition with the United States Supreme Court through its official state organization the California Rifle and Pistol...
gun rights blogger and "shall-issue" concealed carry permits.

NRA Got Spanked for Valentine’s Day!

A Federal district court judge issued an Order and tentative ruling on Valentine's Day smacking down the National Rifle Association's latest attempt at obtaining...
Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch

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An ocean of ink has spilled these past two days about President Trump's nominee to fill the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court...
federal 4th circuit court of appeals en banc.

A Concealed Carry Case SCOTUS Can’t Refuse

No, it isn't the NRA's concealed carry appeal out of California (Peruta v. San Diego) or the concealed carry appeal the US Supreme Court...
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President Trump’s Judicial Opportunity and Conundrum

The Opportunity Everybody knows that President Trump will nominate someone to fill the seat of the late US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. By all...
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NRA Tells Supreme Court Open Carry is Perverse

There is a moral putrefaction oozing out from the core of the so called gun-rights community. Its leadership and many, if not most, of...
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NRA Drops Supreme Court Concealed Carry Appeal

"Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained...
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NRA Asks US Supreme Court To Hear Two Concealed Carry Lawsuits

The NRA still claims that there is a right under the Second Amendment to carry weapons concealed in public and the NRA still claims...
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National Concealed Carry Snake Oil Law Will Fail

"The right of self-defense doesn't stop at the end of your driveway. That's why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of...
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What Lies Ahead for the Second Amendment?

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." John Adams 1798Open...
Trump Meets Reagan - 1987. public domain image.

The Second Amendment and President Trump

If President Trump is true to his word, and there is no reason to believe that he isn't, then he will nominate a defender...
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A Federal 9th Circuit Judge Finally Finds a Right to Bear...

Paul Murphy is a resident of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. He is not an attorney but despite the nearly insurmountable barriers...
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Are You Protected by the Fourth Amendment if You Carry a...

Does the mere fact that you are carrying a firearm openly or concealed in a state where it is legal to carry a firearm...

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