Wolford v. Lopez

116 F.4th 959 (9th Cir. 2024) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

61 articles discussing this case

20:21 News Analysis

9/5/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The United States Government Just Told the Supreme Court the AR-15 Bans Are Unconstitutional

19:28 Legal Analysis

8/29/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Anti-Smuggling Rule: Why Barrett's Wolford Concurrence Decides the AR-15 Ban Cases

19:23 News Analysis

8/27/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

40 Million AR-15s — And the Government Still Has to Prove They Are Unusual

18:43 News Analysis

8/15/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Kauai County Concedes in Brown v. Kauai County Permit-Delay Suit

15:08 Legal Analysis

8/13/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Post Office Gun Ban Was Never What the Government Said It Was

15:14 News Analysis

8/11/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Justice Alito Is Staying — and the AR-15 Cases Just Got Better

15:59 Legal Analysis

8/1/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Montgomery County, Maryland, Banned Guns in Houses of Worship — and Drew a Lawsuit and a DOJ Ultimatum in the Same Week

18:57 Legal Analysis

7/29/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Bruen Wasn't the Landmark — Heller Was, and Rahimi Just Proved It

23:05 Legal Analysis

7/28/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

DOJ's New Brown v. ATF Brief Ignores Wolford v. Lopez — and Stretches a 1939 Shotgun Case to Cover Rifles

14:27 News Analysis

7/23/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

DOJ Moves to Block the Virgin Islands' New AR-15 and Magazine Ban

16:49 News Analysis

7/22/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Maryland Banned the Glock — Now a Federal Lawsuit Aims to Bury SB 334

17:22 News Analysis

7/20/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Hawaii's Top Court Throws a Tantrum — and Proves Why the Spirit of Aloha Lost

17:01 News Analysis

7/18/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Judge VanDyke Tells the Supreme Court: Bench-Slap the Ninth Circuit on the Second Amendment

16:45 News Analysis

7/17/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The En Banc Third Circuit Strikes Down New Jersey's Semi-Automatic Rifle and Magazine Bans

19:17 News Analysis

7/15/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Delaware Is Trying to Outrun a Ruling the Third Circuit Already Made

14:24 Commentary

7/14/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Justice Barrett's Testimony on Threats to Her Family Makes the Case for the Second Amendment

13:11 News Analysis

7/12/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Lindsey Graham's Second Amendment Legacy: The Senator Who Built the Court

18:19 News Analysis

7/11/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Justice Barrett's Wolford Footnote Is About to Take Down New Jersey's AR-15 Ban

19:58 News Analysis

7/9/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

United States v. Hemani Just Vindicated My No-Trial Theory of Second Amendment Litigation

16:05 News Analysis

7/8/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Calce v. City of New York: The Stun Gun Case That's Caetano 2.0

20:23 News Analysis

7/7/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Third Circuit Just Tipped Its Hand — New Order in the New Jersey AR-15 Ban Case Signals a Ruling Is Coming

18:01 Legal Analysis

7/6/26 Supreme Court Assault Weapons Bans

Why the Supreme Court Took Two AR-15 Cases — The Strategy Behind the Viramontes and Grant Cert Grants

19:09 News Analysis

7/3/26 Seventh Circuit Second Amendment

United States v. Rose: A Second Amendment Skeptic Embraces the Present-Danger Rule

18:10 News Analysis

7/2/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

I Called the AR-15 Cert Grant Weeks Ago — the One-Year Wait Was Strategy, Not a Snub

17:18 News Analysis

7/1/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

DOJ's New Virginia Lawsuit Just Closed a Quiet Standing Trap on the AR-15 Ban

17:23 Legal Analysis

6/28/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Easter Eggs in Wolford — How One Sentence About 'Any Form of Arms' Threatens Every Modern Gun Control Law

19:31 Legal Analysis

6/27/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

SCOTUS's Wolford Ripple Hits the AR-15 — 2A Attorneys Tell Federal Appeals Court that New Jersey's Ban Is Finished

19:45 Legal Analysis

6/26/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Justice Jackson's One-Way Ratchet — How a Dissent Became the Second Amendment's Best Witness

17:06 Legal Analysis

6/26/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Spirit of Aloha Cannot Shrink the Second Amendment — Alito's Wolford Opinion and the DOJ Civil Rights Win

19:42 Legal Analysis

6/25/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Vampire Rule Gets a Stake Through the Heart — SCOTUS Strikes Hawaii's Carry Ban in Wolford v. Lopez

18:04 Legal Analysis

6/18/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court Rules in US v. Hemani that Federal Drug-User Gun Ban Falls

16:18 News Analysis

6/15/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

SCOTUS Denies Cert in Corbett v. Hochul — Here's Why You Shouldn't Panic

19:45 News Analysis

6/7/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Fifth Circuit's Squire Ruling Is a Second Amendment Loss Worth Celebrating

18:10 Legal Analysis

5/22/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Fifth Circuit Just Killed the Expert-Witness Shakedown — Posner's Legislative-Facts Rule Comes for the Second Amendment

20:30 Legal Analysis

5/18/26 Second Circuit Second Amendment

Second Circuit Kills New York's 'Vampire Rule' — and Judge Menashi's Dissent Could Reshape the Parks Doctrine

19:52 Legal Analysis

5/17/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Why the US Supreme Court Skipped AR-15s This Term — And Why It's Coming

12:51 Legal Analysis

5/14/26 Supreme Court Sensitive Places

Why the Third Circuit Is Sitting on Cheeseman and Koons — They're Waiting on Wolford and Hemani

10:05 Legal Analysis

5/8/26 Supreme Court Concealed Carry

Hawaii Capitulates: Non-Residents Win the Right to Apply for Concealed Carry in Solinsky v. Lopez

11:48 Legal Analysis

5/6/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Trump DOJ Targets AR-15 Bans — And Predicts SCOTUS Will Strike Them Nationwide

18:57 Legal Analysis

5/1/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Fifth Circuit Denies En Banc in Wilson — and Why That Is the Right Outcome for the Second Amendment Right Now

19:24 Legal Analysis

4/23/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Where the Trump DOJ Is Headed on the Second Amendment: A Post-NRA Convention Read

13:20 Legal Analysis

4/10/26 Virginia Second Amendment

DOJ Fires a Shot Across Virginia's Bow: Civil Rights Division Threatens Lawsuit Over AR-15 Ban

21:47 Legal Analysis

4/2/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Two SCOTUS Cases, One Historic Term — What Hemani and Wolford Mean for Your Gun Rights

21:47 Legal Analysis

4/2/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Two SCOTUS Cases, One Historic Term — What Hemani and Wolford Mean for Your Gun Rights

19:51 Legal Analysis

4/2/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Pam Bondi Fired: A Second Amendment Scorecard and the Solicitor General Problem

19:15 Legal Analysis

3/28/26 Fifth Circuit Second Amendment

Federal Judge Gets 'Sensitive Places' Wrong in Texas Gun-Free Zone Ruling

16:03 News Reaction

3/16/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Rhode v. Bonta — The Ninth Circuit Just Drew an 8–3 Republican En Banc Panel on California's Ammo Background Check Law

12:15 Legal Analysis

3/14/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

What Makes a 'Sensitive Place' Constitutional? Halbrook and the Government Security Principle

16:00 Legal Analysis

3/9/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Solinsky v. Lopez: The Next Brick in the Wall for Nationwide Carry

19:27 Legal Analysis

2/13/26 Third Circuit Second Amendment

New Jersey Embarrassed at Third Circuit En Banc — A Ghost Statute and a 2A Reckoning

19:15 Legal Analysis

2/7/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Virginia's HB 217 Tries to Disarm 18–20-Year-Olds — and the Historical Record Destroys It

17:48 Legal Analysis

2/3/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Hawaii's Pre-Emptive Retreat: SB3041 Is Just the Vampire Rule With a Neon Sign

12:59 News Reaction

1/27/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Trump Administration Stands Up for the Second Amendment — and Gets It Mostly Right

16:41 News Reaction

1/25/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Defends Black Codes as Second Amendment Precedent in Wolford v. Lopez

16:17 Legal Analysis

1/24/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Wolford v. Lopez: The Supreme Court Looks Ready to Bury Hawaii's Vampire Rule

16:17 Legal Analysis

1/24/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Wolford v. Lopez: The Supreme Court Looks Ready to Bury Hawaii's Vampire Rule

19:07 Legal Analysis

1/22/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

SCOTUS Hears Wolford v. Lopez — Hawaii's 'Vampire Rule' Is on Life Support

19:53 Legal Analysis

1/9/26 Supreme Court Second Amendment

Trump DOJ Steps Into Rhode v. Bonta — and the Stakes Go Way Beyond Ammo

13:19 Legal Analysis

12/22/25 Supreme Court Second Amendment

The Cleanest Explanation of Bruen Step Two I Have Heard — Professor J. Joel Alicea on Substantive vs. Incidental Features

Coming Soon Legal Analysis

5/1/25 Supreme Court Second Amendment

For the First Time in American History, the DOJ Is Pushing for 2A Wins at the Supreme Court

Coming Soon Legal Analysis

5/1/25 Supreme Court Second Amendment

For the First Time in American History, the DOJ Is Pushing for 2A Wins at the Supreme Court

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