John is an NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the host of the John Crump Live Podcast and GOA’s Virginia Reloaded which can be found at www.crumpy.com. John is also an Amazon Best Selling author.
John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%’ers, Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution.
John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and is currently working on a book profiling non-stereotypical gun-rights activists.
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The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision, affirming the state’s authority to protect lawful gun manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers from protracted litigation.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging the city’s draconian gun registration laws that unlawfully prohibit law-abiding American citizens from owning semi-automatic firearms like the AR-15.
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The Justice Department accuses the defendants of systematically violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens through unconstitutional policies and practices related to firearm licensing.
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The case centers on Eva Marie Gardner, a Virginia resident with a valid concealed carry permit, who was traveling to her mother’s home in Pennsylvania when her vehicle was struck twice and forced off the road in Maryland.
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On December 9, 2025, a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reissued a significant ruling in the case of United States v. George Peterson.
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The men also agreed to procure various other firearms and military equipment for the cartel. Campo and Sensi agreed to provide the CJNG with AR-15s, M4 carbines, grenade launchers, and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
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Matthew Hoover has been released from a federal prison in Wisconsin after serving nearly three years of a five-year sentence for trafficking machine guns.
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The DOJ has now filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the petitioners, arguing that Hawaii’s law infringes on Americans’ constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.
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As Gun Owners of America (GOA) appeals a court’s decision in its gag order case, multiple legacy media companies have filed amicus briefs in support of the gun rights organization.
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With the tax now eliminated for these firearms, Congress argues that the constitutional basis for the registration and transfer requirements has been rendered obsolete.
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The student who was detected to have the weapon was handcuffed and searched before police determined the system had mistaken a bag of Doritos for a handgun.
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Last month, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Department (LCSD) arrested a man for carrying a concealed firearm without a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit (CHP) and having an AR-15 equipped with a binary trigger, which the Sheriff’s Department claimed made the firearm a machine gun.
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The 13-page motion exposes a post-judgment clash between gun-rights confidentiality and the government’s attempt to limit the number of people allowed to carry guns in post offices.
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“The state has failed to identify Founding-era law that broadly prohibited the concealed carry of firearms by eighteen-to-twenty year olds,” Ledee wrote.
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The organization alleges that the agency is violating state law by unlawfully charging specific individuals background check fees and conducting unauthorized supplemental background checks when those individuals purchase firearms.
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In a decision that reverberates through the ongoing national debate on gun rights, a Virginia Circuit Court has invalidated a state law mandating background checks for private handgun sales.
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The plaintiffs argue that the new law violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments by effectively banning the commercial sale of one of the most common handguns in America.
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A coalition of 26 House Republicans led by Reps. Ben Cline and Mary Miller is demanding the ATF resume processing NFA applications during the government shutdown, arguing that furloughing examiners violates Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
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The Third Circuit heard oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of New Jersey’s “assault weapons” and “large capacity” magazine ban.
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This case seeks to dismantle the National Firearms Act (NFA) registration requirements for certain firearms and suppressors, arguing that recent legislative changes have rendered them unconstitutional.