Gun Owners Travel Advisory: Avoid the Turks and Caicos Islands
From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . To all U.S. gun owners: Do Not Travel to the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory located southeast of the Bahamas, and if you have already made plans, reconsider your destination. SUMMARY: Since November 2022, at least eight American tourists have faced “firearms prosecutions” for […]
Gun Rights Win: 3rd Circuit Refuses En Banc Review of Ruling Striking Down Ban on Carry Permits for Adults Under 21
Here’s a news flash: law-abiding adults — whatever their age — can’t be prohibited from exercising their civil rights. All of them. At least not in the states that comprise the Third Circuit (think how happy New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will be to hear that). The Second Amendment Foundation and FPC had won a […]
California’s 1 Gun a Month Limit Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional
And another one goes down. A U.S. District judge has struck down California’s one-gun-a-month purchase limit law on summary judgement. The Golden State’s gun control law was such a clear and obvious violation of the plaintiffs’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms that Judge William Hayes didn’t bother with taking the matter to […]
Judge Rules California Can’t Cancel the Gun Rights of People Whose Felony Convictions Have Been Vacated
Most people know that felons (and those convicted of misdemeanors with penalties of more than one year) lose their gun rights. We can argue whether those who have been convicted and serve their time should later have their rights restored, but that’s another matter for another day. The question at hand in a US District […]
Gun Rights Win: Ninth Circuit Refuses En Banc Hearing of Ruling Striking Down California’s Ban on Gun Advertising
Gavin Newsom signed California AB 2571 into law in June of 2022. The bill, among other things, prohibited the advertising of firearms to minors. The practical result of that was to keep even periodicals that wrote about kids sports shooting from being able to publish in toe 0nce-Golden State. That, of course, is a ban […]
Judge Blocks Cortland New York Ban on Guns in Public Housing
It will probably come as quite a shock to New York officials like Governor Kathy Hochul to learn that people who live in public housing have all the same civil rights that are guaranteed them by the Constitution as people who live in privately-owned homes and apartments. The Second Amendment Foundation sued the Cortland, New […]
SAF Sues the .Gov Over Medical Marijuana Gun Ban
So many long-standing gun control laws are threatened as a result of the Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling that it’s hart to keep track without a score card. One of the most endangered of the species is likely the federal ban on purchasing or owning firearms by marijuana users. The Second Amendment Foundation has taken […]