A divided Ninth Circuit reversed another Second Amendment victory, treating Hawaii’s handgun-permit deadline and police-inspection mandate as presumptively constitutional because they sit inside a “shall-issue” system. Five dissenting judges said the majority misread Bruen and improperly sh...
California’s SB 704 will require eligibility checks for firearm barrel purchases beginning July 1, 2027. SAF is challenging the premise of the law while urging DOJ to change how the system handles rejected buyers. The post SAF Is Taking On California’s DOJ Over Firearm Barrel Background C...
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.
President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department not to appeal the Silencer Shop ruling, leaving a major injunction against key National Firearms Act registration and approval provisions in place for covered plaintiffs, members and customers.
The decision does not erase every provision. The court rejected the Second Amendment challenge to commercial-distribution restrictions. It also rejected the plaintiffs' First Amendment claim involving digital instructions for 3D printing because their record did not establish whether the cod...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explains the fundamental principle behind the Second Amendment: Americans possess the right to keep and bear arms before government, and the Constitution forbids government from infringing it.
FPC, NRA, GOA, and other gun-rights plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to strike down New Jersey’s one-handgun-a-month restriction, arguing that the state’s own experts cannot identify a comparable Founding-era law.
The Supreme Court has ordered New York City to respond in Calce, a challenge to its civilian stun gun and Taser ban. The case could decide whether citizens must prove an arm is in “common use” before the government must defend its prohibition under Bruen.
A federal judge has permanently blocked Delaware’s bans on possessing and self-manufacturing unserialized firearms, ruling that the Second Amendment covers both the guns and a law-abiding citizen’s ability to build them at home. What the Court Decided U.S. District Court Judge Maryell...
The Third Circuit revived NSSF's challenge to New Jersey's gun industry liability law, rejecting the state's Catch-22 timing argument. Read the original story: Third Circuit Rejects New Jersey’s ‘Catch-22’ and Revives NSSF Challenge to Gun Industry Liability Law After State Sued Glock