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...

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...

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...

Still a 2nd-Class Right

A June 2, 2025, decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear appeals in the Snope v. Brown and Ocean State Tactical v....

Will Suppressors Be Removed from NFA Control?

On May 21, 2025 the House Rules Committee amended H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to include Sec. 2 of the Constitutional Hearing Protection...

DOJ, ATF Give in on Forced Reset Triggers

On May 16, 2025, the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) and Texas Gun Rights (TXGR) entered into a settlement agreement that stops further...

New Shooter’s Guide: Muzzle Control at the Range, and in the Toilet

Most of you should be very familiar with the four rules of firearms safety as promulgated by Col. Jeff Cooper: Every gun is always...

CDC ‘Gun Violence’ Staff Cut, SAF Applauds

Wide-ranging layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have cut staff responsible for developing "gun violence" propaganda, and the Second Amendment Foundation...

DOJ Forms Protective 2A Task Force

The Department of Justice recently created a Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force to protect American citizens' constitutional right to possess firearms. "For too long, the...

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In the September 2022 issue, I mentioned in Downrange that “Fifteen Republican senators rolled over earlier in the year to pass a bill negotiated...