Seattle Festival Shootout Exposes the Failure of Gun-Free Zones and Criminal Gun Laws
The deadly shooting at Seattle’s largest food festival is already being reduced to another example of “gun violence.” But the facts point to a much different lesson. Police believe at least three people exchanged gunfire during the Bite of Seattle festival, including a 15-year-old now in juvenile custody, a 19-year-old suspected shooter who died at the scene, […]
Does an Arm Have to Be Popular Before the Second Amendment Protects It?
“Common use” should defeat firearm bans — not give government a loophole to ban newer or less common arms. AR-15s are unquestionably common. Millions of Americans lawfully possess them for self-defense, training, hunting, competition, and other lawful purposes. That widespread ownership should make categorical bans on America’s most popular rifle impossible to defend. But the […]
Supreme Court AR-15 Ban Fight Could Reshape the Second Amendment
The United States Supreme Court is preparing to hear one of the most important Second Amendment cases in a generation. At stake is a simple but massive question: Can the government ban AR-15s and other commonly owned semi-automatic firearms simply by labeling them “assault weapons”? For decades, anti-gun states and local governments have tried to […]
New Supreme Court Rulings Strengthen TJ Roberts’ Challenge to the NFA
A federal challenge involving longtime Texas Gun Rights ally TJ Roberts has gained new legal support from three recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Texas Gun Rights previously reported that Roberts v. ATF is one of several lawsuits challenging the federal government’s continued registration of suppressors and short-barreled firearms after Congress reduced the related National Firearms Act taxes to zero. […]
What Everytown Leaves Out of Its Texas Gun Statistics
Everytown for Gun Safety’s latest Texas fact sheet presents a familiar conclusion: Texas suffers from “gun violence” because state lawmakers have not adopted the organization’s preferred gun-control agenda. But Everytown’s own numbers do not prove that claim. The underlying mortality data largely comes from government sources and reflects real human suffering. Texas faces serious challenges […]
Seventh Circuit Upholds AR-15 Ban as Supreme Court Prepares To Take up the Fight
A divided federal appeals court just upheld Illinois’ ban on AR-15s, standard magazines, and other commonly owned firearms — giving the Supreme Court yet another reason to step in and settle the issue once and for all. The ruling came from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Barnett v. Raoul, where gun […]
Brady Sues To Force ATF To Hand Over Gun Dealer Target List
The gun confiscation lobby wants a list. Not a list of violent criminals. A list of lawful gun dealers. Brady has filed a federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Justice demanding records tied to ATF’s “Demand Letter 2” program — records that could identify firearm dealers […]
TXGR Helped Stop Biden’s Backdoor Gun Registration Rule
The Biden-era ATF rule targeting private firearm sales was officially vacated last month — and Texas Gun Rights helped make it happen. On June 12, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated 2024 ATF “Engaged in the Business” rule — a Biden administration scheme designed to blur the line between ordinary Americans […]
DPS Case Against Texas Gun Owner Takes Major Hit After Texas Supreme Court Ruling
The Texas Department of Public Safety’s attempt to revoke Timothy Willis’ License to Carry just ran into a major new problem. For months, DPS has continued fighting to revoke Willis’ LTC based on a decades-old Georgia divorce order that contains no finding that Willis was violent, dangerous, or a credible threat to anyone. Texas Gun […]
Supreme Court Takes up Fight Over AR-15 Bans
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major Second Amendment fight that could shake the gun confiscation lobby’s favorite ban scheme to its core. At issue: whether the government can ban AR-15-platform and similar semi-automatic rifles — some of the most commonly owned firearms in America — by slapping them with the politically […]