CHICAGO, IL — The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Illinois can ban the most popular rifle in America. In a 2-1 decision in Barnett v. Raoul, the panel reversed Judge Stephen McGlynn’s permanent injunction against the Protect Illinois Communities Act. Judge Amy St. Eve...
The Seventh Circuit has upheld Illinois’ ban on AR-15s and standard magazines, doubling down on Bevis just days after the Supreme Court agreed to hear Viramontes and Grant. Chief Judge Brennan warned the court is allowing Illinois to ban “the best-selling rifle in America and its standard mag...
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...
CHICAGO, IL — The National Rifle Association, the Illinois State Rifle Association, three federally licensed gun dealers, and five individual gun owners filed a federal lawsuit this week challenging Illinois’s 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases. The case, Pearlstein v. Raoul, wa...
The Supreme Court’s decision to take up two major AR-15 cases shows the justices were not ducking the Second Amendment. Mark Smith argues the delay was strategic, setting up a cleaner fight over semiautomatic rifle bans in the October 2026 Term.
A Washington County judge has clarified that the injunction in Santolla v. Katz applies statewide, blocking enforcement of Virginia’s new assault-firearm and magazine ban while the NRA-backed lawsuit moves forward.
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...
Banning so-called “assault weapons” has been the top priority of various gun-ban organizations, including so-called Everytown for Gun Safety, for the past few decades. After all, these “weapons of war” are truly “evil,” they say, and Americans would be much saf...
Virginia tried to pull four separate challenges to its new gun-control laws into one courtroom. A judicial panel rejected the move, ruling the cases are too different and too far along to justify transfer.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger wanted to ban common semi-auto rifles and standard-capacity magazines. Virginians answered by heading to the gun counter, driving firearm background checks up 241% in June. Then the courts blocked the ban anyway. The post Spurred By Political Threats, June Gun Sal...