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I think you're conflating constitutional Equal Protection with statutory anti-discrimination law. Constitutionally, EP has specific requirements where the level of "scrutiny" the court will apply to a challenged law is wedded to the the plaintiff "protected" status. E.g., a law would...

Probably not a winning argument. Equal Protection (EP) only has teeth when the group who is being discriminated against has a "protected" status, e.g. racial minorities or women. For all other laws which group people into one category or another, the government need only show that the law (1)...

Check out http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=United_States_v._Hayes for a summary of the case. According to the article, the question presented to the court is whether "18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), which prohibits anyone convicted of a 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' from possessing...

Realistically, I wouldn't worry about it too much for two reasons. First, the new administration has got its hands full with some other, somewhat difficult (and more politically expedient), issues. The are likely not going to ram restrictive gun legislation through on day one of the next...

Just a thought, but what about a charge of criminally negligent homicide for the RO and/or father? Both failed to perceive a risk that they should have known, and that failure resulted in a death. Since a reasonable prudent person in the RO's position likely would have known not to allow an...

Quote (I don't know how to quote the real way--sorry): The preemption statute would not apply to the other four guns in the vehicle in this circumstance, so I would have to fall back on the laws regarding the transportation of guns Navy, I agree with you completely when you put it that way. I...

Quote: You will notice that statute covers CARRYING a weapon in a vehicle. That is why it is limited to hunting or lawful protection. If you were going to the range or taget practice, you would not be CARRYING the weapon, you would be TRANSPORTING the weapon, which would presume that the gun...

Potential CO Preemption Statute Here is a CO statute which seems to preempt any local (home-rule) firearms transportation bans. I have included the full text, but bolded the seemingly important parts. The only requirement for preemption seems to be that the weapon is either for (1) hunting...