Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California’s Background Check Requirement for Ammo Purchases
A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that California’s law requiring a background check for each ammunition purchase violates the...
Two Gun Groups Challenge Law Prohibiting Mailing of Handguns via USPS
Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), together with Pennsylvania resident Bonita Shreve, have filed a lawsuit against the United States...
FPC Moves To Strike Down Ban On Interstate Handgun Sales
The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has filed a motion for summary judgment in the case of Elite Precision Customs v. ATF, a lawsuit that...
Gunowners’-Rights Groups File Suit Against New Jersey Suppressor Ban
On July 18, 2025, a coalition of six gunowners'-rights organizations filed a joint federal lawsuit in the District of New Jersey challenging the state...
Big Win: DOJ Doesn’t Appeal Ruling Against Federal Handgun Purchase Ban For Adults Under...
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision not to appeal a Fifth Circuit ruling striking down the federal ban on handgun purchases for 18-to-20-year-olds...
Anti-Gun 2nd Circuit Allows N.Y. Anti-PLCAA Statute to Stand
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled against gunowners' rights in NSSF v. James, a challenge to a New York...
Gun Groups Announce Plans to Sue for Repeal of National Firearms Act
President Trump has signed the One Big Beautiful Bill that, among other things, zeroes out taxes on suppressors, short-barreled firearms, and any other weapons...
DOJ Asked to Investigate Empire State Gun Infringements
Chairwoman of House Republican Leadership Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) recently sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi...
Some Gun Taxes Removed in Budget Reconciliation Bill
The budget reconciliation bill, which President Trump calls the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and which he signed on July 4, 2025, had a...
FFL “Name and Shame” ATF Program Is Ending
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has said that it will end the Demand 2 Program. Most gun owners likely didn't...
Sixteen AGs Sue Gun Groups Over Return of Forced Reset Triggers
Sixteen Attorneys General are suing the National Association for Gun Rights and the federal government to stop the return of illegally confiscated Forced Reset...
Are Armed Civilians More Effective at Stopping Active Shooters than LE?
You’d never know it from watching television, but civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, according to new...
Ammo Price Increases Are Coming
Since President Donald Trump’s announcement on April 4 about new tariffs — a 10% blanket tariff on all imports, plus targeted reciprocal tariffs —...