CINCINNATI, OH — Four of the biggest names in Second Amendment advocacy just asked a federal appeals court to do something no circuit has done: hold that the National Firearms Act’s registration scheme for short-barreled rifles violates the Constitution. The National Rifle Association, Fi...
The Justice Department has moved to abandon its appeal defending the federal post office gun ban, leaving a permanent injunction protecting present and future SAF and FPC members at ordinary post offices.
An en banc Third Circuit ruling invalidates New Jersey’s ban on semiautomatic rifles and magazines holding more than ten rounds. The decision creates the federal appellate split the Supreme Court will confront in Viramontes and Grant.
The NRA, NSSF, firearm dealers and gun owners have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' 72-hour waiting period as an unconstitutional burden on the Second Amendment. The post NRA, NSSF File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Illinois’ Three-Day Waiting Period Restriction appeared first on...
Four major gun-rights groups say 1.17 million registered SBRs are protected arms. Their Sixth Circuit brief argues the NFA registry rests on a 1934 drafting accident, not American history.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — The gun rights coalition challenging New Jersey’s sweeping “sensitive places” carry law just filed a supplemental brief telling the en banc Third Circuit that the Supreme Court has already done most of the court’s work for it. The July 8 filing in Koon...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The firearm industry is not letting the Seventh Circuit have the last word on Illinois’s rifle ban. NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, announced Thursday that it will file a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnett v. Raoul. That matters...
California’s Glock-style pistol ban remains in force after a federal judge rejected the DOJ’s emergency request, but the central Second Amendment question remains unanswered.
ATF comment periods are not popularity contests. They create the legal record that can make or break federal gun rules in court. Gun owners who stay silent hand the opposition the field.