Author: theholsterstore

A new filing from the United States Attorney for Washington, DC, risks undoing a recent ruling against the city’s magazine ban. Worse, it could undermine a burgeoning circuit split on the overarching question of whether hardware bans violate the Second Amendment. For years now, gun rights organizations and their lawyers have been trying to achieve… Read more

Mandating a multi-day delay before someone can buy a firearm does not implicate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled. On Friday, a three-judge panel for the First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court decision that blocked enforcement of Maine’s 72-hour waiting period for gun sales. The panel determined that… Read more

The Attorney General who oversaw the Justice Department’s at least partial shift toward promoting Second Amendment rights has officially been shown the door. What can gun-rights advocates expect out of her potential replacements? On Thursday, President Donald Trump (R.) announced that Pam Bondi would no longer serve as U.S. Attorney General. That officially ends her… Read more

This week, we’ve got the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on the show. That’s because the group has filed an amicus brief in a Second Amendment challenge that’s going to be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court. And the ACLU is on the side of the defendant who is attempting to assert his gun… Read more

Ever since President Donald Trump retook office last year, we’ve covered the notable divergence in how different parts of his administration have approached the Second Amendment. On the one hand, the DOJ and ATF have implemented numerous policies and initiated several legal challenges gun-rights advocates have cheered. On the other, the administration has continued to… Read more

“Can the government ban all knives?” Judge Cory Wilson asked. “I think it may well not be a Second Amendment problem to ban knives,” Sean Janda, a Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer, replied. That was an exchange during Wednesday’s oral arguments in Knife Rights Inc. v. Bondi. That case is a constitutional challenge to the… Read more

This week, it appears to be another two steps forward and one step back for the Trump Administration. At least, if you’re a Second Amendment advocate. That’s because the administration has unveiled two new policy changes gun-rights activists have cheered. One came in the form of a new Pete Hegseth memo that seeks to expand… Read more

Uniformed military personnel may soon be able to carry firearms on base under a new directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. On Thursday, Hegseth released a video of himself signing a new memo that allows individual service members to request permission to carry their personal guns on military property in the United States, including military… Read more

Canada’s 10-week effort to confiscate AR-15s and similar firearms concluded on Tuesday with low turn-in rates, high costs, and an impending challenge in the Supreme Court of Canada. 37,869 Canadians have declared around 67,000 firearms for turn-in since the program’s start, according to a Wednesday release from Public Safety Canada. But at less than half… Read more

Lawful gun owners may soon be able to ship pistols through the mail. On Wednesday, the United States Postal Service (USPS) released a new proposed rule in the Federal Register that would reclassify handguns as “mailable” under its regulatory standards. The USPS said the change was necessary to conform with a recent Justice Department Office… Read more