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The key question Americans have to face is whether it makes sense to let the gun lobby hold more power than citizens who want to live without fear of a well-armed mad gunman going off in a crowd.

In a case that tested the boundaries of the Supreme Court's recent expansion of Second Amendment gun rights, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that some limits still apply: A federal law banning the possession of a gun with an obliterated serial number is constitutional, the court said.

Now that they are nearly done squeezing Swiss bank UBS for information about its wealthy tax-dodging clients, the IRS and the Justice Department are moving on to new tax fraud targets: Clients of London-based bank HSBC Holdings, mostly those with ties to India and Singapore.

The storied firearms maker just reported annual earnings that soared 45% on a 21% leap in revenues to $406.2 million. But the Supreme Court's handgun ruling is most likely to excite investors and entice them to buy S&W's stock.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declared the Second Amendment applies to the states as well as the federal government, which essentially gives all Americans an individual right to possess a handgun. But the constitutional underpinnings of the ruling are shaky -- and potentially revolutionary.

A deeply divided Supreme Court on Monday decided that the Constitution's Second Amendment gives all Americans the individual right to keep and bear arms.

In recent years, demand for firearms skyrocketed: People worried that high unemployment would lead to more crime, and when President Obama was elected, gun rights supporters feared he would clamp down on their right to bear arms. But both of those fears have eased, and demand for guns is weakening.

The Supreme Court's decision today to overturn 69 years of case law on gun issues was not really a surprise, given its down the middle voting record. They went for something kind of middle of the road, weaselly really: they claim that the individual has a right to bear arms, but that it's somehow...