Black Codes, enacted after the Civil War to restrict newly freed African Americans, took center stage at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as it considered a challenge to a Hawaii gun law. With the conservative majority’s Second Amendment test requiring states to justify gun measures with historical analogues,

Justice Samuel Alito said on Tuesday that the lawyer defending a Hawaii gun law, which requires gun owners to get permission to carry firearms on private property, is treating the Second Amendment as a constitutional right with “second-class status.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case over whether states can prevent concealed carry holders on private property that is open to the public.

In his latest Guns & Gadgets video, Jared Yanis starts with a challenge that sounds simple but carries a sharp edge: if the Second Amendment protects “the right of the people” to keep arms, what were the Founders saying before the Bill of Rights even ...