Follow the Money: Inside the Foundation Funding the Gun Confiscation Movement
The public face of the gun-confiscation movement is rallies, lobbying, research reports, media campaigns, and demands for new restrictions on firearms. Behind that activity is a substantial funding infrastructure. Now, the National Shooting Sports Foundation is putting a spotlight on one of the private foundations helping finance it: the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation. In an August 26 […]
First FFLs Pass ATF Inspections After 4473-Only Suppressor Transfers
Federal firearms dealers are beginning to transfer suppressors without the traditional NFA Form 4 process for gun owners covered by a federal court injunction — and a new report indicates ATF inspectors are not treating those transfers as violations. AmmoLand reports that at least four Federal Firearms Licensees in four different states have undergone routine […]
Watered Down Brief Defends AR-15s as Militia Arms, But Draws the Line at Machine Guns
A new Supreme Court brief makes a forceful argument for protecting AR-15s under the Second Amendment: their usefulness as militia arms is a reason for constitutional protection, not a reason to exclude them from it. But the brief also draws a controversial line. While defending semiautomatic rifles, it assumes for purposes of its argument that […]
BREAKING: Texas Gun Rights Files Brief to Defend Self-Defense Rights at Texas’ Highest Criminal Court
Texas Gun Rights is officially stepping into one of the most important self-defense cases currently before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Texas Gun Rights and the National Association for Gun Rights have filed an amicus brief in Ballester v. State urging Texas’ highest criminal court to reject the State’s attempt to broaden the legal doctrine of […]
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 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 Says Post Office Carry Ban Is Unlawful
The federal government’s post office gun ban just took another major hit. In an August 12 legal opinion, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that otherwise law-abiding citizens may carry constitutionally protected firearms for self-defense inside post offices that are generally open to the public. DOJ went even further. The opinion concludes that […]