The Justice Department has stepped into Virginia’s fight over its new “assault firearms” ban, filing a federal lawsuit as state court injunctions already block enforcement of the July 1 law.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two major Second Amendment challenges to bans on modern semiautomatic rifles. For gun owners, Grant v. Higgins and Viramontes v. Cook County could become the long-awaited test of whether AR-15-style rifles are protected “arms.”
JACKSON, TN — The fight over whether Tennessee can keep treating ordinary firearm carry as a crime reached the state Court of Appeals on June 23, where judges heard arguments over two statutes a trial court has already declared void. At the center of the case, Stephen L. Hughes, et al. v. Bill ...
CAMDEN, N.J. — A federal magistrate judge has cleared the way for the National Rifle Association to join the Second Amendment lawsuit against New Jersey’s one-gun-a-month law, adding the country’s largest gun-rights group to a case the state has been defending since 2024. In an opin...
The Supreme Court’s Wolford v. Lopez decision is more than a win over Hawaii’s “vampire rule.” It is a reminder that the right to armed self-defense exists before government permission.
Todd Blanche has said the Trump DOJ is ending the weaponization of federal power against lawful gun owners. Now, with his nomination for Attorney General, Second Amendment advocates want proof.
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...
A new Supreme Court ruling in Wolford v. Lopez may undercut New Jersey’s defense of its semiautomatic firearm ban by clarifying that “Arms” are protected at Bruen’s plain-text stage.