On Jan. 29, in a federal courtroom in Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves delivered a ruling that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable: He found the decades-old federal ban on ...

The Trump White House touted its surge of National Guard members to Washington, DC, last summer as the way to put more dangerous perpetrators in the nation’s capital behind bars. But in nearly a dozen ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide another Second Amendment case this term, taking on the question of whether a federal law that bars gun possession by anyone who is “an unlawful user of or ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in its first major case of the term Tuesday with a dispute concerning “ghost guns,” firearms that are typically assembled at home and cannot be traced, as ...

Gun policy is being rewritten in real time, and the most important drafts are now coming from federal judges. As new lawsuits test everything from assault weapon bans to background checks for ...