Videos tagged with Founding Era Law

This video discusses the Fourth Circuit's ruling upholding the federal ban on handgun sales to individuals aged 18-20 in McCoy v. ATF. It highlights the dissenting opinion from Judge Quattlebaum, who argued the ban violates the Second Amendment and noted that Everytown's amicus brief's logic could exclude voters based on age, property, race, or gender, drawing parallels to historical disenfranchisement. The ruling creates a circuit split with the Fifth Circuit, potentially leading to Supreme Court review.

This video critically examines the legal basis for "sensitive places" gun restrictions, particularly in New York and New Jersey. It argues that historical laws restricting long guns on "lands" for hunting are not valid analogs for modern restrictions on carrying handguns into "buildings" for self-defense. The speaker, Mark Smith, a constitutional attorney, emphasizes that the burden is on the government to prove a long-standing tradition for such restrictions, and that ambiguities in historical law should favor Second Amendment rights, citing NYSRPA v. Bruen.