Law and the Courts

Should Your Doctor Decide Whether You Can Bear Arms? [VIDEO]

Bigstock This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For another look at the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at…


Blackman: The Second Amendment is Now Up to the Fifth Circuit Now

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) And so it continues. Twelve years after Heller, we are in the exact same place. The government cannot ban the possession…


The Supreme Court Confirms the Second Amendment Remains a Second Class Right

Justice Clarence Thomas (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) [I]n several jurisdictions throughout the country, law-abiding citizens have been barred from exercising the fundamental right to bear arms because they cannot show that they have a…


Gun Industry Deals With the Failure of the Supreme Court to Take Up 2A Cases

The massive bronze doors of the Supreme Court are seen in Washington, early Monday, June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) From the National Shooting Sports Foundation: The NSSF, the firearm industry trade association, expressed…


SAF’s Gottlieb on SCOTUS’s Refusal to Hear Second Amendment Cases

Courtesy Jeff Hulbert From Alan Gottlieb: The Supreme Court’s refusal to take a Second Amendment Foundation case falls squarely at the feet of Chief Justice John Roberts. He owes every gun owner in the United…



The Trump Administration Has Its Hands Full in Defending the Bump Stock Ban

Nick Leghorn for TTAG When the ATF, at the Trump administration’s direction, waived is regulatory magic want and announced that bump fire stocks (which they’d previously approved) had magically become machine guns, they created hundreds…


Federal Court Rules Connecticut Can’t Suspend Gun Permit Processing During Emergency

Bigstock A win in Connecticut. A US District Court has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Governor of Connecticut’s executive order allowing the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection to suspend taking fingerprints (necessary…