Hosts Kelly Roskam, Tim Carey and Kari Still explore how courts are grappling with minimum age firearm regulations in the wake of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. Alex McCourt, JD, PhD, MPH core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, joins the show to share public health research on firearm risks among young adults. Special guest Professor Megan Walsh, JD, a visiting assistant clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Gun Violence Prevention Law Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School unpacks the shifting legal landscape in federal courts.

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0:00 - Introduction and legal background

4:25 - Alex McCourt discusses the public health evidence behind age-based firearms laws

15:30 - Professor Megan Walsh, JD, shares the shifting legal landscape in federal courts

43:53 - Uncertainty around the law and what comes next

Hosts Tim Carey and Kari Still analayze challenges to the federal prohibition on firearm possession for users of illicit drugs. Beth McGinty, PhD, MS, Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics and Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medicine shares insights about how substance usage affects the risk of firearm possesion. Matthew Osborne, PhD, MA, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri, Kansas City discusses the history of alcohol and drug regulation in the United States.

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0:00 - Introduction and case background

6:00 - How courts are treating the current law and public debate

8:35 - What the research says about the risk of firearms and substance usage

24:00 - Conflicting challenges: United States v Daniels and United States v Beasley

38:00 - The historic of regulating alcohol and controlled substances

54:25 - What happens now?

Hosts Kelly Roskam, Tim Carey, and Kari Still react to and analyze the Supreme Court's ruling in U.S. v Rahimi. The Court upheld firearm prohibitions for those subject to domestic violence protective orders. This is the first time the Court has used its recent Bruen test in an opinion, but there are still many lingering questions about how lower courts should use the test when making decisions.

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0:00 - Introduction

1:45 - U.S. v Rahimi decision recap

4:35 - Dr. Mary Anne Franks, legal scholar and professor of law at George Washington University Law School joins the show to analyze the Court's decision, discuss what it means for the Bruen test and other Second Amendment decisions.

32:30 - The Bruen test and historical analogies for disarming dangerous individuals

38:05 - Natalie Nanasi, associate professor at SMU, Dedman School of Law and founding director of the Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women discusses the impact of the Court's decision on domestic violence victims and survivors.

50:45 – Implications of the Court's decision on other gun violence prevention laws and challenges