WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to the bans on semiautomatic ...

To listen to the gun lobby, the Second Amendment provides an absolute constitutional right for an individual to own an array of armaments and ammunition free from regulation by the state.

California bans pistols with designs introduced in 2007 and thereafter ... in Heller to decide that a restriction violates the Second Amendment. Second, the proving laws of only two antebellum ...

These designs do exist, but the latter is rejected ... given its history of consistently reversing pro-Second Amendment decisions? There is a back story to the opinion expressed in three days ...

Exploring the origins and evolution of the Second Amendment, this episode examines how a post-revolutionary principle became one of the most polarizing topics in American politics. From the ...