Law and the Courts

Dettelbach’s Confirmation Will Hasten the Neutering of the ATF

With last week’s confirmation of Steve Dettelbach to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, gun control advocates and other nanny-staters are celebrating the agency’s first confirmed director since 2015. But what most…


California Enacts Firearm Maker ‘Nuisance’ Law, Acknowledging Its Background Checks, Waiting Period are Failures

By Mark Oliva California’s new law allowing state authorities and victims of crimes to bring lawsuits against firearm retailers and manufacturers is flawed in ways that Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom never considered. Among them might…


Not Content With Violating the 2nd Amendment, Gavin Newsom is Now Attacking 1st Amendment Rights

By Matt Manda California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new law to ban firearm advertising “attractive to minors” has criminalized First Amendment freedom of speech. It’s not a law protecting children as the governor frames it….


FPC: Continuing to Obstruct the People’s Second Amendment Rights is No Longer an Option

From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . . Quoting the plurality opinion from McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court held in Bruen that “[t]he constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not…




BREAKING: Dick Heller Files Lawsuit Challenging DC’s Limit on the Amount of Ammo a Concealed Permit Holder May Carry

A reliable source tells us tha Dick Heller, of District of Columbia v. Heller fame, is back at it defending gun rights on a national level. Under an arbitrary rule established by the District of…


SAF Sues State of California to Block Firearms Advertising Ban

From the Second Amendment Foundation Attorneys for the Second Amendment Foundation and several partners have filed a federal lawsuit for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief in a case challenging the constitutionality of a California law prohibiting…


Yablon: New York’s Anti-Gun Culture May Keep it from Becoming Texas on the Hudson

Ultimately, the research suggests that neither pro-gun advocates who champion “good guys with guns” as the solution to crime nor anti-gun liberals who fear more concealed carriers will whip out their Glocks really have an…


NSSF Hires Clement & Murphy in Challenge to New York’s Firearms Manufacturer ‘Nuisance’ Law

From the National Shooting Sports Foundation . . . NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, is announcing it has retained Paul Clement and Erin Murphy of Clement & Murphy, PLLC, to represent NSSF in its…