Texas Gun Rights to SCOTUS: Protect AR-15s — And Stop Lower-Court Evasion
Texas Gun Rights and the National Association for Gun Rights are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for more than another Second Amendment victory. They want a ruling lower courts cannot evade. The Supreme Court granted review June 30 in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins, agreeing to decide whether the Second and Fourteenth […]
ATF Hit by Major Cyberattack, Raising Questions About Gun-Owner Data
A major cyberattack against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is raising new questions about the federal government’s collection and protection of sensitive firearms-related information. ATF confirmed on August 26 that hackers breached a standalone computer system, prompting senior Department of Justice officials to designate the cybersecurity breach a “major incident.” The disclosure […]
Tempe Pulls the Plug on Flock Cameras. Texas Should Ban Them Next.
Texas Gun Rights is calling on Texas lawmakers to ban government use of Flock-style automated license plate readers before mass surveillance becomes a permanent feature of life in the Lone Star State. Tempe, Arizona, just pulled the plug. The city announced it was shutting down its Flock Safety automated license plate reader network and terminating […]
FBI: Violent Crime Plunged at Historic Rate in 2025
New FBI data show violent crime fell at a historic rate in 2025, undercutting attempts to portray America as facing an ever-worsening violent-crime crisis requiring more restrictions on law-abiding gun owners. The FBI’s final numbers are in. The national violent crime rate dropped 9.7% in 2025, marking the largest year-to-year decline since the FBI began […]
CDC Restores Defensive Gun Use Data Removed During Biden Administration
The CDC is once again acknowledging what gun-control advocates would rather ignore: Americans use firearms to defend themselves and others. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has restored information on defensive gun use to its firearm injury and death webpage, pointing to research estimating between 60,000 and 2.5 million defensive gun uses annually. The […]
ATF Sees Rare Breed Injunctions as a Way to Limit Forced Reset Triggers
DOJ is urging a Texas federal court to weigh the public interest heavily in Rare Breed’s favor, arguing that successful patent injunctions could advance ATF’s stated interest in limiting FRT sales and distribution. Earlier this month, an analysis published by the Texas Gun Rights Foundation warned that Rare Breed Triggers’ sweeping patent campaign could become useful to the same […]
Herrera vs. Stout: TX-23’s Second Amendment Divide Couldn’t Be Clearer
Brandon Herrera was fighting alongside Texas Gun Rights before he ever became a candidate. Katy Padilla Stout is running on universal background checks, Red Flag laws, a bump-stock ban, and new restrictions on young adults buying rifles. Gun owners in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District have already spent years teaching politicians a lesson Washington too often […]
Bloomberg Panics as Trump Rolls Back Suppressor Restrictions
Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control machine is attacking a Trump administration rollback on suppressors — even as the federal government admits ordinary suppressors are no longer uniquely sensitive military technology. Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control network is sounding the alarm over suppressors again. Everytown for Gun Safety’s The Smoking Gun is attacking a Trump administration reform that will move certain commercial […]
Texas Judge Rules Key Parts of ATF “Frame or Receiver” Rule Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Fort Worth has ruled that key portions of ATF’s 2022 “Frame or Receiver” Rule violate both the Second Amendment and the Fifth Amendment. The ATF just suffered another major defeat in a Texas federal court. On August 17, Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in Defense Distributed v. Blanche that two key […]
DOJ Reopens Federal Gun Rights Restoration: What the New Rule Means for Texans
A new Justice Department process could give thousands of Texans with old federal firearms disabilities a path to restoration—but federal relief does not erase a conviction, override Texas law, or automatically restore every firearm right. By Texas Gun Rights Foundation For more than three decades, federal law contained a pathway for Americans to seek restoration […]