BREAKING NEWS: APPEALS COURT RULES GUN ID LAWS ARE CONSTITUTIONAL...

The Appellate Court for the 4th District in Illinois has ruled against the Second Amendment, deciding that Gun Owner FOID ID laws are constitutional. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses...

Read my new 2nd Amendment article: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/public-policy-journal/in-print-2/volume-22-issue-2/dangerous-but-not-unusual-mistakes-commonly-made-by-courts-in-post-bruen-litigation/

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Second Amendment scholar Mark W. Smith hosts the Four Boxes Diner 2A channel, which was named the Top Voice of the 2nd Amendment at the 2025 Gundies Awards. Mark Smith is a constitutional attorney, a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar, a professor, a frequent Fox News guest, and a New York Times bestselling author. Mark's eight books include Disarmed: What The Ukraine War Teaches Americans about the Right to Bear Arms, Israel Disarmed: What the October 7 Attack Teaches Americans about the Right to Bear Arms, The Official Handbook of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, First They Came for the Gun Owners, and Duped: How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting, and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back. Mark’s scholarship has been used by lawyers before the U.S. and his work has been quoted by a federal judge (Roger Benitez) in declaring California’s so-called “assault weapon” ban to be unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

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