The Supreme Court refused to hear 22 gun rights cases, including challenges to lifetime firearm bans and misdemeanor disarmament laws. Washington Gun Law's William Kirk examines what the denials mean as major Second Amendment cases remain pending.
SAF and NRA filed an amicus brief asking the full Fifth Circuit to tie lifetime gun bans to dangerousness, not a felony label. Read the original story: ‘History Disarmed the Dangerous, Not the Peaceable’: SAF and NRA Urge Full Fifth Circuit to Limit Lifetime Gun Bans in United States v. Cordova
A 31-year-old gun control activist is charged after spray painting his website over victims' names at the 9/11 Memorial and filming it. Read the original story: 31-Year-Old Gun Control Activist Charged After Filming Himself Spray Painting His Website Over Victims’ Names at 9/11 Memorial
The Second Amendment Foundation and NRA have filed an amicus brief urging the 5th Circuit to adopt a dangerousness standard for federal firearm prohibitions, arguing that nonviolent felony convictions alone should not justify lifetime disarmament. The post NRA, SAF File Brief Asking Court To Impl...
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling against the federal government's lifetime firearms prohibition as applied to Edward Williams, whose decades-old nonviolent DUI conviction triggered the ban under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The post 3rd Circuit Court Rules For Nonviolent DUI Of...
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.
ATF’s use of criminal informants has drawn scrutiny for decades. AmmoLand examines Gregory Pruess’s role in Tate Adamiak’s prosecution, conflicting accounts of his cooperation, and documented failures involving informant disclosure and oversight.
SCOTUS declined U.S. v. Hembree, leaving a Fifth Circuit ruling that a meth possession conviction alone cannot support a federal gun ban. Read the original story: DOJ Asked the Supreme Court to Restore a Felon-in-Possession Conviction Built on Simple Drug Possession. The Justices Said No.
Three of the biggest names in the gun rights world just teamed up to take on one of the ugliest features of federal firearms law: the permanent disarmament of people who committed nonviolent crimes and have long since gone straight. If this sounds familiar, it should — this is the second time i...
DOJ formally let the suppressor ruling stand and ATF told dealers in Dallas it will not cite 4473 transfers of cans. Plus Connecticut's Glock ban blocked, California's roster counter-move, and why 1.41 billion trace records matter to your paperwork.