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
Gun Owners of America, the Virginia Citizens Defense League and two Liberty University students filed Boyer v. Katz on Oct. 6 seeking to enjoin Virginia’s ban on handgun and assault-firearm purchases by adults under 21, plus revived private-sale back
Effective Oct. 9, ATF will not enforce making, transfer, registration or tax-stamp requirements for short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers and any other weapons after Congress zeroed the NFA tax. The bureau’s nationwide guidance fo
The Justice Department told a Missouri federal court that nine states cannot win nationwide or statewide relief from NFA registration after the Texas Silencer Shop ruling. The brief seeks to confine suppressor and SBR deregistration to the original d
The CDC corrected its firearm-injury webpage, raising the lower bound of annual defensive gun uses from 60,000 to 500,000 after restoring National Academies research it had removed in 2022. The agency now cites a range of 500,000 to 2.5 million DGUs
In an October 2 motion to dismiss Zimmerman v. Blanche, the Justice Department argued that 18 U.S.C. § 930(a) does not bar lawful self-defense carry in National Park Service visitor centers and other buildings open to the public. The filing contradic
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 Term by denying review in dozens of Second Amendment petitions, including challenges to the federal felon-in-possession statute and Minnesota’s refusal to honor out-of-state carry permits. The mass denial kee
New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed an October 1 certiorari petition asking the justices to review the Third Circuit’s decision striking down the state’s assault-rifle and large-capacity magazine bans. The petition asks the Court to
Solicitor General D. John Sauer formally notified Congress that the Justice Department will not appeal the Silencer Shop Foundation injunction blocking NFA registration and approval requirements for suppressors and short-barreled rifles. The decision
U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley granted a preliminary injunction against Public Act 26-41 one day before it took effect, finding Connecticut’s Glock-style pistol sales ban likely unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. The order pauses enforc
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 26 signed a 10-bill package requiring a live-fire firearm-safety course, expanding red-flag orders to ammunition, and mandating that 3D printers sold in the state block firearm files. The package further tightens California
U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett denied plaintiffs’ preliminary-injunction motions in Bathras v. Moore, leaving Maryland’s SB 334 ban on cruciform-trigger pistols in place. The ruling keeps the state’s restrictions on Glock-style handguns in ef