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Illinois Supreme Court Finds Statute Regulating Stun Guns and Tasers Unconstitutional - A Portion of the State's Unlawful Use of...

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• In People v. Webb, the Illinois Supreme Court found that an Illinois statute prohibiting the carriage or possession of a stun gun or taser in public violated the Second Amendment. • The Court applied a two-part test to...more

Butler Snow LLP

The Right to Bear… Stun Guns: Second Amendment Protections Expanded?

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The State of Massachusetts prohibits the possession of any “portable device or weapon from which an electrical current, impulse, wave or beam may be directed, which current impulse, wave or beam is designed to incapacitate...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Supreme Court - March 2016 #3

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued one per curiam decision on March 21, 2016: Caetano v. Massachusetts, No. 14-10078: Massachusetts enacted a law prohibiting the possession of stun guns. That law was upheld...more

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Supreme Court Decides Caetano v. Massachusetts

On March 21, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Caetano v. Massachusetts, No. 14-10078, reversing the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision upholding a Massachusetts law prohibiting the possession of stun guns. The...more

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