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Reason May 2005 Kohn et al. |
Straight Shooting on Gun Control A debate about gun control from four viewpoints. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Step Away From the Car: Rare Fourth Amendment victory In April the U.S. Supreme Court said police may no longer routinely search the vehicles of recently arrested people, a practice that was considered constitutional for nearly three decades. |
National Defense November 2012 Valerie Insinna |
License Plate Reader Technology Sparks Lawsuit The American Civil Liberties Union sued two departments, including Homeland Security, 38 states and the District of Columbia in September over documents related to the federal government's use of automatic license plate readers. |
Reason August 2002 Jacob Sullum |
Second Thoughts John Ashcroft's Second Amendment position, even if adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is not likely to have practical consequences anytime soon. |
ifeminists November 16, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Girls, Get Your Guns Organizations dedicated to female gun ownership are spreading from well-established organizations like Second Amendment Sisters and Women and Guns to relatively new ones like Mother's Arms, which urges mothers to protect their children with armed force if necessary. |
Reason July 2007 Jacob Sullum |
Hello to Arms In response to a lawsuit organized and financed by Cato Institute legal scholar Robert Levy, the D.C. Circuit panel rejected the collective-right theory as historically implausible and inconsistent with the rest of the Constitution. |
Reason June 2005 Robert VerBruggen |
Self-Defense vs. Municipal Gun Bans When Hale DeMar shot an intruder in his house, he may well have saved his children's lives. So why was he charged with a crime? |
Reason December 2008 Brian Doherty |
How the Second Amendment Was Restored The inside story of how a gang of libertarian lawyers made constitutional history, declaring by a 5-4 decision that yes, the Second Amendment does secure an individual right to keep and bear arms. |
Salon.com April 14, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
Reason April 2002 Jeremy Lott |
Fake IDs Facial recognition technology is often billed as a tradeoff between privacy and security. A recent American Civil Liberties Union report suggests that it's closer to a no-win deal, resulting in less privacy and precious little added security... |
PC World October 16, 2002 Michelle Madigan |
ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act Privacy unnecessarily threatened under broad surveillance powers, civil liberties group charges. |
ifeminists May 5, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Gun-Proof Your Children The basic question is whether private gun ownership is a Constitutional and individual right, or a reckless practice that endangers society and children. |
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
AskMen.com |
"Arrest Me!" A man rebuffed in an attempt to get arrested, finally got his wish when he went for an officer's handgun. |
ifeminists July 6, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Domestic Violence Victims Need Self-Defense Every American anti-domestic violence advocate should advise victims -- male or female -- to learn self-defense. They should lobby for the repeal of any law or policy that hinders responsible gun ownership. |
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Roy Mark |
DOJ to Appeal Patriot Act Ruling Judge says 'democracy abhors undue secrecy' as he strikes down provisions that allow the FBI to obtain names from ISPs without judicial authority. The DOJ isn't buying it. |
ifeminists May 13, 2003 Tiffany Hyatt |
Why I Picked Up a Gun One woman was raped and beaten by men who actually are commissioned police officers. I was that woman. |
ifeminists April 15, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
War May Redefine Gun Control Despite the high emotions that surround war --- or perhaps because of them --- people are focusing again on "normal" life. But what is normal has shifted in ways both obvious and subtle. Consider how war has affected just one issue: the debate over gun control. |
AskMen.com Moti Shapira |
How To: Buy A Gun If you are thinking about buying a gun, there are three main parameters by which to choose the most suitable model. |
Salon.com December 21, 2000 Dawn MacKeen |
The medical privacy debate Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough? |
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Stephanie Armour |
A 'Bring Your Gun to Work' Movement Builds Partly as a result of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, gun rights activists are proposing laws that permit more workplace firearms. |
Salon.com June 7, 2000 Camille Paglia |
The gun letters The Million Moms are "cowardettes who don't know the difference between a Glock and a glockenspiel." |
Reason December 2001 |
Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war... |
InternetNews December 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
FCC Wiretap Order Raises ACLU Ire The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday became the latest member of a growing group challenging the Federal Communications Commission's order that all Voice over IP providers must build a standardized wiretap backdoor into their systems. |
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Speak Softly and Carry a Concealed Handgun Would a nicer NRA be more effective? |
Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty |
Baloney Ballistics Gun databases fail. Devoting so much record keeping to every gun sold guarantees wasted effort, since less than 1 percent of all guns sold will ever be used in a crime. |
Reason June 2004 Jarett Decker |
Criminal Representation U.S. courts may find the ban on "expert advice and assistance" as applied to defense lawyers too much to stomach. |
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Nicki Fellenzer |
Is It So Hard To Believe? Privacy, the first amendment, and legislation after 9/11. |
ifeminists November 18, 2003 Rex Curry |
Government Schools and Unconstitutional Searches As an attorney, I believe that government schools should be unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment ban of unreasonable searches. The recent police-state raid in Goose Creek, South Carolina is another in the growing list of proofs. |
Reason December 2008 Brian Doherty |
Four Decades of Defending Self-Defense Since its inception in 1968 the defense of Americans' Second Amendment rights has been a staple of reason. Take a look back at how they have covered this issue through the years. |
Reason April 2007 Jacob Sullum |
You Call That A Secret? Plugging leaks with subpoenas at the Justice Department. |
IDB America June 2004 Charo Quesada |
Sherlock Holmes Didn't Work Alone In Bogota, traditional turf battles within the police system are giving way to cooperation and a focus on results. |
ifeminists April 30, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
Wired June 23, 2008 Vince Beiser |
Pistol Cam: When Cops Draw This Point-and-Shoot, Say Cheese In an effort to address public concerns about police accountability, the sheriff's department SWAT team in Orange County, New York, recently started packing cameras on their pistols. |
Reason April 2004 Jesse Walker |
Late Communism The People's Republic of China is still formally a communist country. But if this is communism, it's an increasingly peculiar kind. In December party leaders proposed a constitutional amendment to protect property rights. |
Salon.com May 15, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Playing both sides President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates... |
Reason February 2005 Eric Dzinski |
Humanizing Gun Nuts In Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures, anthropologist Abigail A. Kohn shoots down stereotypes about gun enthusiasts. |
Reason February 2009 Radley Balko |
Checkpoint Diego Should the courts uphold suspicionless and increasingly invasive border searches under a vague national security exception, most Americans could essentially forfeit their Fourth Amendment rights in exchange for the privilege of driving. |
Reason March 2009 |
Quotes Recent quotes by: Matthew Carmel, president of Constitution Arms... President Obama, regarding gun safety... Pittsburgh city council member Tonya Payne... food guru Margaret Fulton... |
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
Reason July 2000 Jeff A. Taylor |
Balance Sheet Visas for high-tech workers... National Security Agency before Congress... ACLU looks at the net... etc. |
Reason October 2004 John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Tim Gray |
E-Passports Will be a Reality in 2006 Americans holding U.S. passports issued after October 2006 will carry embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside the documents, according to the U.S. State Department. |
Reason September 2004 Julian Sanchez |
Silent Suits The ACLU challenges secrecy...in secret. |
PC World December 2003 Bill Wallace |
The Patriot Act Reconsidered Next round of antiterrorist legislation seeks to balance privacy and security. |
InternetNews January 19, 2007 Roy Mark |
Senate: Write Away, Bloggers Republicans force changes in language calling for greater reporting requirements for grassroots groups and political bloggers. |
Reason June 2000 Kenneth Smith |
Loaded Coverage How the news media miss the mark on the gun issue. |
Reason February 2004 Julian Sanchez |
Patriot vs. PATRIOT Act For decades Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff has been one of America's most trenchant defenders of civil liberties. An interview. |
Reason February 2003 |
Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots... |
Salon.com September 7, 2000 David Bowman |
The reasonable gun nut Denounced by the NRA, a historian talks about the myth of early American gun ownership and his own fascination with firearms. |