This week, we’re looking at a Fourth Amendment case out of New Hampshire.

To do that, we have the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) Bill Sack with us to describe how his group secured a settlement with Hillsboro-Deering High School over the search of a student’s car. He said school officials decided to search then-18-year-old Jack Harrington’s car for a gun despite not having permission or a good reason to believe there was one inside.

Sack said the officials concluded Harrington might have a gun because he’d told a friend on the baseball team about a traffic stop that had happened more than a week earlier. Harrington described how he’d been pulled over while legally carrying his pistol, and the stop went forward without issue. He wasn’t arrested or charged or even accused of doing anything illegal, and the stop didn’t happen near the school.

Sack said school officials pulled Harrington from class to demand permission to search his car after hearing about the traffic stop. He said they did not have any reason to think Harrington had brought the gun to school or any accusation that he’d made any threats to the school. Still, they pressed him to search his car.

Harrington refused to give permission for the search, but the school officials conducted it anyway. Sack said they found there was no gun in the car. That’s where the SAF suit came in. They helped Harrington sue, alleging the school violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The school settled and admitted the search was illegal, which Sack said SAF plans to use as a bulwark against similar situations around the country.

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Plus, in a shortened and early update, I detail the Ninth Circuit’s decision to uphold novel Hawaiian gun-buying restrictions by using a “carve-out” it identified in the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision. Then I explain the latest poll to look at what Americans think the Supreme Court should do in its upcoming AR-15 case. I also discuss an interesting argument that the Court should look at Revolutionary-Era privateers for answers on that case. And I cover the Department of Justice’s new opinion on handgun sales to 18-to-20-year-olds.

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