An armed citizen stopped the Silver Rail Elementary school shooter in Bend, Oregon, after the attacker killed three children and a teacher. The gun-free zone policy had disarmed law-abiding adults. Police arrived minutes later and found the suspect already dead.
Edward Williams won his nine-year fight against a federal gun ban triggered by a 2005 DUI conviction. A companion Third Circuit ruling upheld disarmament tied to violent threats, leaving the constitutional fight over lifetime firearm prohibitions unresolved.
San Diego County, represented in part by Giffords, is suing Polymaker over its ties to gun-printing creators. The complaint argues that firearm-oriented marketing makes certain 3D-printer filaments regulated firearm precursor parts—extending California’s gun-control campaign into raw material...
Denver’s open-carry ban and Colorado’s permit restrictions leave otherwise-qualified visitors unable to carry publicly for self-defense. FPC’s lawsuit challenges those barriers in the broader fight to protect gun rights across state lines.
Joseph Johnson’s 2015 marijuana-cultivation conviction left him barred from possessing firearms or ammunition. NRA, FPC and SAF are asking the Supreme Court to hear his challenge, arguing that Founding-era history does not support permanently disarming peaceable Americans.
The Justice Department has expanded its San Jose lawsuit to challenge mandatory gun-owner insurance, alongside the city’s $1,591 carry-permit fee and psychological testing. DOJ argues that an earlier ruling protecting the insurance mandate cannot stand under the Supreme Court’s Second Amendme...
New Hampshire school officials have admitted that their search of student Jack Harrington’s truck was unconstitutional. The agreed judgment says lawful gun ownership did not create reasonable suspicion and could not be used to strip Harrington of his Fourth Amendment rights.
President Trump’s new hunting executive order tells federal agencies to presume public lands are open to hunting, protect traditional lead ammunition and remove barriers that keep American sportsmen off land they help fund and conserve.
The Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal government cannot prohibit lawful Americans from directly purchasing handguns across state lines, holding that the right to keep arms necessarily includes the right to acquire them.
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel says the federal government cannot constitutionally punish gun dealers for selling handguns to otherwise law-abiding adults between 18 and 20.