School officials searched 18-year-old Jack Harrington’s truck after learning he lawfully owned a handgun. They found nothing. SAF says gun ownership cannot erase Fourth Amendment protections.
BUTLER, PA — Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Pennsylvania law that permanently bars anyone with any drug conviction, no matter how minor or how old, from ever obtaining a License to Carry Firearms. The lead plaintiff is Craig Philips, a...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation have asked the Supreme Court to take up their challenge to New York City’s ban on stun guns and tasers, filing a petition for certiorari on July 7 in Calce v. City of New York. The petition, filed by Coop...
EAST ST. LOUIS, IL — Two Marine Corps veterans who are both certified firearms instructors are suing Illinois because the state will not even let them apply for a concealed carry license. Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation filed the federal lawsuit, Henrichs v. Kelly, on March 13 i...
I went looking for one article that covered the complete history of the Second Amendment—from English common law to Bruen—and couldn't find one. So I built it. Every major case, law, and turning point, in one place.
A federal judge has allowed most of Maer Malinowski’s lawsuit to move forward after ATF agents killed her husband, Bryan Malinowski, during a predawn raid over alleged unlicensed firearm sales.
COVINGTON, KY — Firearms Policy Coalition is pushing a federal judge to gut the heart of the National Firearms Act, and on June 24 the group filed the brief that could decide the case. The filing is a reply brief in Roberts v. ATF, an FPC-backed lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Easter...
Tennessee’s appeal in Hughes v. Lee puts two gun-control statutes back before the courts after a three-judge panel ruled the state’s “Going Armed” and parks carry laws unconstitutional.
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...