JACKSON, TN — The fight over whether Tennessee can keep treating ordinary firearm carry as a crime reached the state Court of Appeals on June 23, where judges heard arguments over two statutes a trial court has already declared void. At the center of the case, Stephen L. Hughes, et al. v. Bill ...
CAMDEN, N.J. — A federal magistrate judge has cleared the way for the National Rifle Association to join the Second Amendment lawsuit against New Jersey’s one-gun-a-month law, adding the country’s largest gun-rights group to a case the state has been defending since 2024. In an opin...
The Supreme Court’s Wolford v. Lopez decision is more than a win over Hawaii’s “vampire rule.” It is a reminder that the right to armed self-defense exists before government permission.
Todd Blanche has said the Trump DOJ is ending the weaponization of federal power against lawful gun owners. Now, with his nomination for Attorney General, Second Amendment advocates want proof.
The Justice Department says records tied to firearm rights restoration decisions must remain hidden for privacy reasons. But if ordinary citizens are expected to petition for relief, they deserve to know what standards DOJ is actually using.
DES MOINES, IA — The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown out a felony conviction built on a lifetime firearm ban, ruling that the indefinite prohibition could not survive the strict scrutiny that Iowa voters wrote into the state constitution in 2022. In a 5-2 decision filed June 26, the court reverse...
A new Supreme Court ruling in Wolford v. Lopez may undercut New Jersey’s defense of its semiautomatic firearm ban by clarifying that “Arms” are protected at Bruen’s plain-text stage.
DOVER, DE — The Delaware House passed Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 300 on June 25, sending the dealer licensing measure that gun rights groups call the “FFL killer” bill to Governor Matt Meyer for his signature or veto. I covered this bill last month when it was still sitting...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today handed gun owners a second straight win, striking down Hawaii’s so-called “Vampire Rule” in a 6-to-3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez. I have been waiting on this one. The ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, holds that Hawaii cannot presum...
The Supreme Court’s Hemani decision was not just about marijuana users and gun rights. Its due-process language may become a major weapon against red flag laws that seize firearms first and offer hearings later.