A new measure introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to strengthen the protections offered to gunmakers against lawsuits stemming from the unlawful use of their legally manufactured and lawfully sold products. First, some background information….
U.S. District Court Judge Lance Walker has granted a preliminary injunction blocking Maine’s 72-hour waiting period law for firearm purchases, which was challenged by gun-rights advocates. The law, passed in 2024 after Gov. Janet Mills…
A measure that would outlaw the use of a new firearm-specific Merchant Category Code (MCC) for gun purchases in South Dakota has been approved by the State Senate. At issue is a new Merchant Category…
We reported last August how a federal judge in Kansas ruled that the federal law tightly regulating the ownership and transfer of full-auto firearms, aka machine guns, is unconstitutional. Now, a federal judge in Mississippi…
A U.S. senator from Oklahoma is targeting banks and other financial institutions that discriminate against those in the firearms industry and other groups not considered politically correct enough. Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, along with Sen….
The son and grandson of Joseph T. Tomasello, a notorious Colombo crime family capo, have been arrested on federal weapons charges after a raid on their Staten Island home turned up a huge arsenal, including…
What do you do if you’re the chief executive of a state and you want to ban so-called “assault weapons,” but you’ve never managed to get the legislature to do your dirty work for you?…
A cadre of gun-rights organizations has set its sights on New Jersey’s ban on the possession of common hollow-point ammunition outside the home for self-defense. The Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF)…
We’ve covered the ongoing controversy of Memphis, Tennessee, city leaders making an end-run around Tennessee’s firearms preemption law by putting a three-part gun control question on the November ballot. Voters approved the ballot measure, and, despite…
The Virginia General Assembly reached its important crossover deadline on February 4, signifying the date by which legislation must pass out of its chamber of origin or be deemed dead for the session. Unfortunately for…