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The U.S. Supreme Court has seemed reluctant to take up a major Second Amendment case since 2008, when it established that bearing arms is an individual right, not just one granted to state militias. It has passed up enough opportunities to clarify the Second Amendment that Justice Clarence Thomas opined that the rights involved…

It’s not hard to see a future where many states allow so-called “constitutional carry” – your gun on your hip or in your purse – so long as it’s not a submachine gun. In this post, we look at recent legal developments on guns, in North Carolina and on the national stage, starting with…

Both the mother and the father of a 7-year-old who took a loaded gun to school have been charged with failure to secure a firearm from a minor, a Class I misdemeanor in North Carolina. Students reported the gun to school officials who then found and seized the weapon from the 7 year old….

A third person already this year has cut his court-ordered electronic monitoring device and fled detection by Charlotte police. Anthony McCreary was released prior to his trial on charges of assault and weapons charges and ordered to wear the electronic monitoring device as a condition of his pretrial release. The first two who cut…