Gun Owners of America is challenging a U.S. Virgin Islands licensing system that recognizes no out-of-state permits, generally blocks nonresidents from applying and carries a ten-year minimum sentence for unauthorized firearm possession.
ATF would eliminate the Biden administration’s formal presumptions for identifying unlicensed firearms dealers. Gun Owners of America warns that the replacement still preserves enforcement theories that could be used against ordinary gun owners.
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota’s law removing firearm suppressors from the state’s list of controlled weapons took effect Wednesday, July 1. Governor Larry Rhoden’s office says it makes South Dakota the first state in the nation to strike suppressors from a controlled weapons lis...
KANSAS CITY, MO — A federal judge has ruled that Jackson County’s short-lived ban on handgun purchases by adults under 21 violated the Second Amendment. In an order dated June 24, U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips granted partial summary judgment to plaintiff Leonard Wilson Jr., finding t...
A federal judge ruled that Jackson County’s repealed ban on handgun and handgun ammunition sales to adults under 21 violated Leonard Wilson Jr.’s Second Amendment rights.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The change I wrote about this spring is now the law. As of June 12, 2026, any West Virginia adult 18 and older can carry a concealed deadly weapon without first getting a license. That date marked 90 days from the passage of House Bill 4106, which Governor Patrick Morrisey s...
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Freedom from Taxes Act would reduce remaining NFA transfer and making taxes to $0 and eliminate the Special Occupational Tax, sharpening the constitutional fight over the NFA registry.
President Donald Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton in the Texas U.S. Senate runoff against John Cornyn, turning the race into a direct test for Texas gun owners. Cornyn’s record on the Biden-backed gun-control bill and James Talarico’s “commonsense gun safety” platform make this race impossib...
Thomas Massie is in a hard-fought Kentucky primary, but gun owners should look past the political noise and judge his Second Amendment record for themselves.