The NRA and Second Amendment Foundation told the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Cordova that historical tradition supports lifetime firearm prohibitions only for people who pose a proven threat of violence, not for nonviolent felons.
The Second Amendment Foundation asked a federal court for a preliminary injunction after New Mexico kept enforcing its seven-day firearms cooling-off period against everyone except two prior litigants. NSSF, NRA and SAF had already sued seeking state
A Fifth Circuit panel held that switchblade knives are Arms under the Second Amendment’s plain text and that the 1958 manufacturing and interstate-commerce restrictions fail Bruen’s historical-tradition test.
U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. granted summary judgment to Firearms Policy Coalition plaintiffs in Heeter v. James, holding that defensive body armor is a protected arm and permanently enjoining New York’s purchase and sale restrictions, sub
In a 5-2 ruling issued today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that the state’s bar on license-to-carry permits for adults under 21 is consistent with founding-era militia traditions and affirmed a 20-year-old’s unlicensed-carry convicti
Foxtrot Mike Products introduced the ISU-9, a patented integrally suppressed 9mm upper receiver listed at $499 through FM Products, Primary Arms and Silencer Shop.
The Justice Department has filed a notice of appeal seeking to reverse a Texas district court judgment that vacated ATF’s Biden-era firearms-dealer definition rule. The appeal puts the Gun Owners of America win that blocked the expanded ‘engaged in t
NSSF FOIA data show ATF cut volume-weighted average processing for high-volume NFA forms from 73 days in FY2021 to about 18 days, even as application volume roughly tripled. The drop is the clearest operational snapshot yet of how the bureau is handl
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating whether Pennsauken, New Jersey, used extreme wait times on purchase and carry licenses to deny Second Amendment rights. The inquiry puts a municipal permitting scheme under federal civil
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found that every one of the nine largest national banks maintained policies limiting services to lawful firearms makers and retailers on reputational rather than credit-risk grounds. The report documents
The en banc Third Circuit held that two Pennsylvania DUI convictions do not historically justify a lifetime federal firearms prohibition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). In a companion en banc ruling, a divided court said a terroristic-threats felony is
Reps. Mike Thompson, Jamie Raskin and Lucy McBath led 174 members of Congress in a letter asking the Justice Department to rescind its opinion that the Gun Control Act’s ban on FFL handgun sales to 18- to 20-year-olds may not be enforced. The request