(Legal Newsline) — Organizations representing thousands of sheriffs across the U.S. are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down so-called "assault weapon" bans in Cook County and throughout the country.

(Legal Newsline) - An El Salvadorean citizen living in D.C. can be charged with illegal possession of a firearm under an ancient English principle allowing the disarming of people with loyalty to another government, a federal appeals court ruled, though it left unclear when, if ever, the phrase “the people” in the Second Amendment applies to resident aliens in the U.S.

(The Center Square) – One of the latest targets in the legal battles around gun control laws is New York’s ban on Glock-style handguns.

(Legal Newsline) - A conservative federal appeals court judge has teed off once again on his left-wing judicial colleagues on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals over what he described as their commitment to eschewing Second Amendment rights and to ensuring that any "weapons restriction that a liberal State can dream up" will somehow never contradict the Constitution.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Justice Department sued California and Virginia Wednesday over new gun laws that went into effect the same day.