Law and the Courts

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…


Gun Owners of America Sues ATF to Block New Definition of Frame or Receiver Rule

John Crump at Ammoland reports that Gun Owners of America (GOA), Bridge City Ordinance, and North Dakota resident Eliezer Jimenez have sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over its new rule…


Bruen’s Aftermath: The Shall Issue Way Forward as the Blue States Strike Back

By Peter B. Elias and Theresa Inacker The Supreme Court of the United States recently released some landmark rulings in its just-concluded session. For those of us who live in states that systematically violate the…


Supreme Court Marshal Wants Maryland, Virginia Anti-Demonstration Laws Enforced Outside Justices’ Homes

By Sarah Rankin, AP The marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court has asked Maryland and Virginia officials to enforce laws she says prohibit picketing outside the homes of the justices who live in the two states. “For…



Firearms Policy Coalition Files 9th Circuit Motion to Lift Stay in California’s Assault Weapons Ban

Last year, Federal District Court Judge Roger Benitez ruled that California’s “assault weapons” ban is unconstitutional in Miller v. Bonta. Benitez applied the Heller decision’s ruling to his decision in the case. He then refused…



As Expected, ‘May-Issue’ States Are Going to Have to be Forced Into Compliance With the Supreme Court’s Bruen Ruling

As nearly ideal as the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision was, no one thought the states that exercise maximum control over who can fully exercise their Second Amendment rights — and who can’t — would go quietly….