Law and the Courts

Don’t Miss TTAG’s Postgame Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Case Arguments on November 3

If you didn’t already have it marked on your calendar, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen on Wednesday, November 3. The matter…


Springfield Armory Sues EAA For Alleged Copyright Violations

Tis the season for resurrecting the much-loved Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistol. Springfield Armory teased its new product — Springfield’s new Hi-Power reincarnation, the SA-35 pistol — in a series of advertisements and on its SpringfieldPremiere…


Everytown Sues DEFCAD and Others Over 3D Files Using Everytown, Moms Demand Action Logos

The Defendants have created and distributed downloadable files for use in 3-D printers to extrude gun parts and accessories. These files include the identical Everytown Marks in the file names and/or on the resulting extruded…


Firearms Policy Coalition Joins Abortion Rights Activists in Opposing Texas’ New Abortion Law

  This case is important not because of its specific subject matter of abortion, but instead for Texas’s cavalier and contemptuous mechanism for shielding from review potential violations of constitutional rights as determined by this…


GUNS SAVE LIFE WINS! Cook County Gun & Ammo Tax Unanimously Ruled Unconstitutional by Illinois Supreme Court

The Illinois Supreme Court has struck down Cook County’s gun and ammo tax as unconstitutional in a decision released yesterday. In Guns Save Life v. Ali, the state’s high court ruled the tax on an…


Tucker: Gun Rights Should Limited Based on Modern Guns’ Increased Lethality

There is room for looking at the lethality of modern firearms when considering the constitutionality of gun regulation. The court implicitly acknowledged this in its Heller decision when it stated that machine gun bans were acceptable. It’s a difficult…


Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Harrisburg Citizens Can Challenge Gun Control Laws Without Violating Them

From the Associated Press . . . People can sue to challenge a city’s gun restrictions even if they have not been charged with violating them, Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled Wednesday. A divided state Supreme…


Nikolas Cruz to Plead Guilty to Murdering 17 People in Parkland Massacre

By Terry Spencer, AP The gunman who killed 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school will plead guilty to their murders, his attorneys said Friday, bringing some closure to a…



NYSRPA’s King: The Empire State Isn’t a Huge Gun-Free Zone

New York is arguing the entire Empire State is like a government building and should be a huge gun-free zone where only criminals and the privileged can bear arms. The state then defends its unconstitutional…