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  • The Trump Administration Defends the Federal Ban on Interstate Handgun Sales

    07/16/2025 11:21:44 AM PDT · by GrootheWanderer · 37 replies
    Reason ^ | July 16, 2025 | Jacob Sullum
    His administration, which is avowedly committed to protecting Second Amendment rights, nevertheless is defending that restriction against the FPC's challenge, saying it "serves legitimate objectives" and "only modestly burdens the right to keep and bear arms." That argument sounds suspiciously like the sort of "interest balancing" that the Supreme Court emphatically rejected in Bruen. When a gun restriction affects conduct covered by "the Second Amendment's plain text," the Court said in that case, the government has the burden of demonstrating that it is "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." That test typically requires identifying historical analogs that...