A Texas federal judge invalidated key NFA registration requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns after the DOJ declined to appeal. Here's what the resulting patchwork means for FFL dealers — and how to prepare for both the risk and the opportunity.
The Ninth Circuit reinstated an injunction against Hawaii’s private-property “vampire rule” after the Supreme Court held that the default ban on licensed carry violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.
A federal appeals court kept Hawaii's private property carry rule on hold but cleared the state to enforce gun bans at beaches, parks and bars. Read the original story: Beaches, Parks and Bars Are Off Limits Again: Federal Court Clears Hawaii to Enforce Most of Its Carry Ban
The Justice Department has sued Montgomery County over its sprawling 100-yard firearm exclusion zones, arguing that the county makes lawful public carry nearly impossible and directly violates the Supreme Court’s decision in Wolford v. Lopez.
The Trump Justice Department says the Supreme Court’s Wolford decision does not meaningfully affect a constitutional challenge to the National Firearms Act. Mark Smith argues DOJ is stretching Miller, shifting the burden onto gun owners and disguising a federal firearm registry as a licensing s...
In a 6-3 split along party lines, the Supreme Court struck down one of Hawaii’s most restrictive concealed carry laws, something dubbed the Vampire Law by Civil Rights groups. The case Wolf v. Lopez focused on a portion of Hawaii’s Concealed Carry Act that required law-abiding concealed carri...
A licensed concealed carrier reportedly stopped a knife-wielding man who charged through a crowded Cerritos restaurant. The defensive gun use exposes the dangerous failure of California’s unconstitutional SB2 “sensitive place” restrictions.
Gun-control activists and hostile state officials are regrouping after major Second Amendment defeats in Hawaii and New Jersey. The reactions to Wolford and Cheeseman show that the anti-gun lobby will keep fighting even after its restrictions are ruled unconstitutional.
CINCINNATI, OH — Four of the biggest names in Second Amendment advocacy just asked a federal appeals court to do something no circuit has done: hold that the National Firearms Act’s registration scheme for short-barreled rifles violates the Constitution. The National Rifle Association, Fi...
The Justice Department has moved to abandon its appeal defending the federal post office gun ban, leaving a permanent injunction protecting present and future SAF and FPC members at ordinary post offices.