A short excerpt from today's very long opinion in Baird v. Bonta by Judge Lawrence VanDyke, joined by Judge Kenneth Lee:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. government sued the U.S. territory, its police department and Police Commissioner Mario Brooks on Tuesday, accusing them of obstructing and systematically denying American citizens the right to possess and carry guns.

This is a military historian’s view of the Second Amendment, which, in a historical context, is a military clause directly linked to national defense and the kind of military force required to meet that end. The Constitution contains clauses granting ...

The Justice Department recently established a "Second Amendment Section" within its Civil Rights Division. On its face, that move is a welcome development for defenders of the constitutional right to armed self-defense—an impression reinforced by the ...

Michael Bass is a native Tennessean and Nashville healthcare executive. He served in the Marine Corps. Prentiss Nelson is a fifth generation Tennessean and Nashville businessman. He also a veteran of the Marines. As veterans of the United States Marine ...