A 44-year-old ban on nunchucks in New York has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge who argued that the right to own the Japanese martial arts weapon is protected by the Second Amendment. In ...

Republican senators spent hours at Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing this week trying to discern her true views on the Second Amendment right to bear arms. But a listen to the arguments in one of ...

As police face scrutiny and controversy nationwide over the use of force, a small department in northern California is resurrecting a weapon to more safely subdue suspects that once was popularized in ...

A federal court ruled Friday that the state of New York's 44-year-old ban on nunchucks infringes on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The ruling is a victory for Jim Maloney, a ...

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Just blame Bruce Lee. Back in 1974, New York state decided to ban the possession of nunchucks as lawmakers feared they were becoming enticing tools of violence among hooligan children and street ...

Reporting from New York — A 1974 New York state ban on nunchucks that was put into place over fears that youth inspired by martial arts movies would create widespread mayhem is unconstitutional under ...

Paul Gigot interviews Douglas Holtz-Eakin on the Fed. Martial-arts movie legend Bruce Lee made famous the use of nunchucks, twin sticks joined by chain or rope. Now an amateur martial artist has won ...