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A new Virginia lawsuit challenges Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s gun-control package, arguing it bans common firearms, standard-capacity magazines, and public carry protected by the state constitution.
The engineered results are predictable: Ignorance begets fear and fear begets hate.
The Justice Department’s amended complaint against Washington, D.C., targets the city’s AR-15 and suppressor bans as violations of the Second Amendment — and frames enforcement of those bans as a civil-rights problem.
Jordan Derrick, better known online as Dugan Ashley of CarniK Con, has been charged in a federal explosives case tied to online instructional videos.
ATF has long claimed its digitized gun records are not a registry because they are not searchable by buyer name. A new Firearms Research Center paper warns that artificial intelligence could make that excuse obsolete.
Patrick “Tate” Adamiak was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after the government treated cut-up parts, separated components, and inert training tubes as National Firearms Act weapons. Now Palmetto State Armory, the National Association for Gun Rights, and the Right to Bear Association are asking the Supreme Court to step in.
The Cambridge shooting shows the truth gun-control advocates rarely admit: restrictive gun laws do not stop violent criminals, but armed citizens can and do stop violent attacks.
Rep. Thomas Massie’s H.R. 2267 would force the FBI and DOJ to report who NICS is blocking from buying firearms, why those denials happen, and how many are later overturned.
William Michael Brewer says he was jailed for two weeks after a government database treated an old Kentucky misdemeanor as a felony.
George Peterson’s case began with an armed ATF raid on his Louisiana home and business. It ended, at least for now, with the Supreme Court refusing to review his NFA suppressor conviction and a two-year prison sentence hanging over him.
In United States v. Alsenat, the Eleventh Circuit upheld a conviction involving machinegun conversion devices. Sean Maloney warns that the deeper danger is the “accessory” framing used below, which could let courts deconstruct the Second Amendment one firearm part at a time.
ATF’s draft revised Form 4473 would cut the firearms transaction form from seven pages to four while changing several key buyer questions. The proposal affects sex identification, marijuana language, straw purchase warnings, firearm type entries, and possible non-over-the-counter transfers.
SAF’s amicus brief in Baird v. Bonta tells the Ninth Circuit that California cannot ban open carry and claim the Second Amendment survives because concealed carry remains available.
Tennessee’s SB1847/HB1802 is not a blanket license to shoot over property. The final bill creates a narrow deadly-force justification tied to serious crimes and serious danger.
Pennsylvania gun owners are pushing two major Second Amendment bills in Harrisburg: SB 357 for Constitutional Carry and SB 822 to give firearm preemption real enforcement power.
It’s almost like all freedoms are interconnected or something, and that an unrestrained government powerful enough to control guns is powerful enough to do whatever it wants.
ATF’s proposed rule would expand non-over-the-counter firearm transfers, allowing same-state FFLs to verify buyers remotely and ship firearms directly after federal checks are complete.
Connecticut lawmakers have sent HB 5043, the state’s Glock-style “convertible pistol” ban, to Gov. Ned Lamont. NAGR is urging gun owners to demand a veto.
DOJ is now challenging both Denver’s AR-15 ban and Colorado’s statewide magazine ban. The Supreme Court already has hardware-ban cases in front of it. It should take one.
The Justice Department has sued Denver over its long-standing ban on so-called “assault weapons,” arguing the city is violating the Second Amendment by banning AR-15-style rifles and standard-capacity magazines commonly owned by law-abiding Americans.
ATF’s new rule removes the bump-stock language invalidated by the Supreme Court in Garland v. Cargill, but it does not fully restore every affected regulation to its pre-2018 form. Gun owners should pay close attention to what ATF left behind.
CTRLPEW, Alexander Holladay, Centurion Partners Group, Trey Bickley, and Jonathan Adams are challenging California officials in federal court over the state’s attempt to apply its 3D gun file laws to speech and lawful conduct occurring in Florida.
The Second Amendment Foundation is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Patrick Tate Adamiak’s NFA case, warning that lower courts are narrowing Bruen before the government ever has to defend its firearms laws with historical evidence.
Brady, Giffords, and Everytown are urging a federal court to uphold New York’s body armor ban, arguing ordinary Americans have no Second Amendment right to buy protective gear unless the state approves their profession.
Congress reduced the NFA tax on suppressors to $0, but suppressors remain trapped inside the federal registration system. Now several states are moving to clean up their own laws before gun owners get caught in another legal mess created by decades of federal overreach.
Arkansas state senators are demanding a DOJ investigation into the 2024 ATF raid that killed Bryan Malinowski, raising questions about tactics, body cameras, notice, and the agency’s “engaged in the business” enforcement.
Po Murray wants activists to reclaim “gun control.” Good. Now gun owners should demand equal honesty about crime data, failed promises, and bad policy.
The Supreme Court of Maryland ruled that Montgomery County went too far with parts of its firearms ordinance, including restrictions affecting state-issued wear-and-carry permit holders traveling on public highways.
DOJ and ATF rolled out a historic 34-rule reform package aimed at reducing burdens on gun owners and the firearms industry. AmmoLand was there for the signing, but major questions remain over the frames-and-receiver rule, ATF’s out-of-business records database, and accountability after the Bryan Malinowski raid.
Disarming anyone disfavored by the state is one of the oldest power guarantors devised by governments, and this happening in Germany recalls another set of laws imposed within the lifetimes of people still living.
