BREAKING: Texas Governor Abbott Pardons Daniel Perry After Murder Conviction, Restores His Gun Rights
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a full pardon for Daniel Perry, the former US Army Sergeant who shot and killed an armed Black Lives Matter “protester” who’d pointed a rifle at him after a mob blockaded his car during a protest in downtown Austin in 2020. Abbott signed the pardon after the Texas Board […]
Ninth Circuit Panel Rules Nonviolent Felons Don’t Lose Their Gun Rights
A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday ruled that a blanket prohibition on convicted felons possessing firearms violates their Second Amendment rights, at least when it comes to nonviolent offenders who served out their sentence. In a split decision, the three-judge panel threw out firearm possession conviction of a Los Angeles member of a street gang who had […]
Filipovic: Originalism Makes Banning Guns Much Too Difficult
For all that Heller did to rewrite the modern interpretation of the Second Amendment, Scalia’s opinion still didn’t go quite far enough for the most aggressive gun rights activists. It did not, for example, offer a clear path for courts to evaluate (and strike down) other gun laws. So lower courts implemented a test for those new […]
San Diego County Partners with Giffords in Suit Against Defense Distributed Over ‘Ghost Guns’
It should probably be illegal for interest groups like Giffords to represent government in going after companies or people they want to destroy (in civil actions). Even if you think making unserialized firearms is not protected activity under the Second Amendment, the government in a lawsuit like this is supposed to be pursuing whatever is […]
Annals of Abuse: ATF Arrested Wrong Man Who Faced 115 Years Behind Bars
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, began just like any other workday for Bryan Montiea Wilson, a 33-year-old resident of West Columbia, South Carolina, who had never been in trouble with the law. At 6 a.m., Wilson began his shift at Harsco Rails on West Technology Drive, where he worked as a material processor for the […]
SCOTUS Sends Seven Gun Control Challenge Cases to its May 16th Conference for Consideration
In a move with potential national implications, the US Supreme Court has assigned seven gun ban-related cases to a May 16, 2024 conference for review. The cases, six from Illinois and the Bianchi case from Maryland, contend that gun bans (and magazine bans) are unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, along with the rulings in the […]
Bruen Marches On: PA Adults Under 21 Can Now Apply For Carry Permits
From SAF: The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has handed a significant victory to the Second Amendment Foundation and young adults in the 18-20-year age group, allowing them to apply for concealed carry licenses in the state, while enjoining the state from arresting any law-abiding citizens in that age group for […]
BREAKING: Supreme Court Grants Cert, Will Hear Case Challenging ATF’s ‘Frame or Receiver’ Rule
From the Firearms Policy Coalition Today, the United States Supreme Court granted review in Attorney General Merrick B. Garland v. Jennifer VanDerStok, a Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden’s “frame or receiver” rule implemented by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). As a result, the […]
Gun Industry Asks SCOTUS to Step Into Mexico v. Firearm Makers Lawsuit
Firearm industry members targeted by Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case that seeks to blame them for the harm caused by lawless narco-terrorist drug cartels in Mexico. Mexico’s lawsuit also seeks to dictate how firearms are made and sold throughout the United States through a federal court injunction, in effect […]
The Horror: Bruen is Coming for Washington’s New Gun Control Laws
When a Cowlitz County judge ruled last week that Washington’s ban on high- capacity magazines is unconstitutional, he added one line, on Page 43 of his 55-page opinion, that could just be a little-noticed throwaway, or could prove shockingly prescient. There are, Judge Gary Bashor wrote, “few, if any, historical analogue laws by which a state […]