The Hughes Amendment, added to the 1986 Firearms Owners’ Protection Act, banned new civilian machine guns after a controversial House voice vote. Here’s how it happened.
Second Amendment attorney Stephen Stamboulieh has accepted a position with the Department of Justice, moving one of the gun-rights community’s most determined litigators inside an agency he has repeatedly challenged.
The petitioners in Duncan v. Bonta are urging the Supreme Court to review California’s magazine ban after the Third Circuit expressly rejected the Ninth Circuit’s reasoning and struck down New Jersey’s similar restriction.
The Supreme Court granted review of whether the Second Amendment protects semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15. What the consolidated Viramontes and Grant cases mean for FFL dealers — and how to prepare.
A church and a Houston coffee shop challenged Texas gun signage rules. The Fifth Circuit dismissed the case 13-3. Read the original story: 13 Judges to 3: Fifth Circuit Tosses Everytown-Backed Challenge to Texas Gun Signs
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear consolidated challenges to AR-15 bans in Cook County and Connecticut. From the Trump Justice Department’s position to the battle over Heller’s common-use test, these are the major issues gun owners should watch as Viramontes and Grant move toward oral argu...
The full Fifth Circuit has vacated a ruling upholding Curtis Squire’s felon-in-possession conviction. The rehearing could test whether a gun’s past movement across state lines gives Washington permanent authority over local firearm possession.
After striking down Hawaii’s “vampire rule” in Wolford, the Supreme Court again refused to settle whether 1791 or 1868 controls the Second Amendment’s historical test.
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 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...