Top 10 Posts of the Year for 2024

It’s been an eventful year for the Second Amendment and firearms law—and we’ve covered many of the major issues, cases, and controversies here on Second Thoughts. 

The Supreme Court decided United States v. Rahimi in June, upholding a firearm regulation against Second Amendment challenge for the first time in the post-Heller era and shedding some light on how the current justices view the Bruen test.  In the wake of Rahimi, lower courts have been instructed to revisit Second Amendment cases with mixed results.  Additional petitions—including in a number of cases challenging state assault weapon and large capacity magazine bans—are filtering up to the Supreme Court and could be heard soon.  And the Court is set to hear argument in its first-ever case construing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in March.  We’ll have continuing coverage of these developments on the blog in the new year.

Looking back over the past year, below are our top ten most-read blog posts that were published in 2024 (based on viewership from January 24, 2024 through December 24, 2024):

1. Litigation Highlight: New District Court Decision Rejects Second Amendment Challenge to Pistol Brace Rule (March 8, 2024)
2. Presidential Firearms: Part I (January 24, 2024)
3. Cargill, Forced Reset Triggers, and Heightened Scrutiny of ATF Regulation (September 6, 2024)
4. The Second Amendment on Appeal Post-Bruen (March 22, 2024)
5. Rahimi, Decision Timing, and Opinion-Writing Predictions (May 8, 2024)
6. An Update on Challenges to State Assault Weapon and Magazine Bans (November 6, 2024)
7. Range and State-Level Gun Rights Restoration (June 19, 2024)
8. Presidential Firearms: Part II (February 28, 2024)
9. Litigation Update: Antonyuk Round 4, the Second Circuit Weighs In (January 5, 2024)
10.  Litigation Highlight: Hawaii Supreme Court Embraces Militia View for State Second Amendment Analogue (February 21, 2024)