The NFA Is Dead? Not So Fast.
ATF’s stunning announcement is welcome relief for gun owners. But buried in the fine print is a warning that could put thousands of Americans in legal jeopardy — and vindicate everything Texas Gun Rights warned about in 2025. By Chris McNutt The National Firearms Act is dead! At least, that’s what gun owners across America […]
FBI Admits NICS Monitoring of Lawful Gun Buyers
The federal government built a system capable of knowing when Americans attempt to purchase firearms. Now the FBI has acknowledged that the system has also been used to monitor future firearm transactions involving Americans who are legally eligible to buy guns. That is exactly why Texas Gun Rights is calling for the elimination of the […]
DOJ Wants a Seat at the Supreme Court Fight Over AR-15 Bans
The fight over whether government can ban America’s most popular semiautomatic rifle is moving closer to the Supreme Court lectern, and the U.S. Department of Justice wants a seat at the table. Just days after Texas Gun Rights Foundation and the National Association for Gun Rights filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to […]
Why Texas Gun Rights Is Pushing to Eliminate Taxes on Guns and Ammunition
A new legal argument is taking aim at special taxes imposed on firearms and ammunition — and the debate has direct implications for Texas gun owners. Second Amendment Foundation attorney Konstadinos “Kostas” Moros argues in a new law review article that special taxes targeting commonly owned firearms, ammunition, and related products violate the Second Amendment […]
Clarence Thomas: Government Does Not Grant the Right
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently put one of the most important principles in Second Amendment law into remarkably simple terms: the Constitution does not give Americans the right to keep and bear arms. It recognizes and protects a right that already existed. During an appearance with Sen. Ted Cruz on the Verdict podcast, Thomas […]
Rehmet’s Ties to Talarico Put Gun-Control Alliance in Spotlight in SD 9 Rematch
Texas Senate District 9 is headed for a November rematch — and the contrast on the Second Amendment is getting harder to ignore. Democrat State Sen. Taylor Rehmet, who flipped the longtime Republican district in a January special-election runoff, is once again facing Republican Leigh Wambsganss. Now, campaign-finance records are putting another piece of Rehmet’s […]
Texas Majority PAC Organizer Caught on Video Describing $25 Payments as “Roundabout” Way of Paying for Votes
A Democratic-aligned political action committee already drawing scrutiny for millions of dollars in funding from George Soros is facing new questions after one of its organizers was recorded describing a $25 political-outreach payment as a “roundabout way of paying people for their votes.” Texas Majority PAC has since fired the organizer and disputed his account […]
Tennessee Congressional Candidate Calls for National Gun Permit Requirement
A Tennessee congressional candidate is calling for Americans to obtain a government permit simply to own a firearm — a proposal that would take federal gun policy far beyond concealed-carry permitting. Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson, a Democrat running for Congress in Tennessee’s 9th District, wrote on September 8 that he wants Congress to […]
Texas DPS Director Tells Fifth Circuit Three Carry Bans Are Unconstitutional
Freeman Martin agrees the challenged Texas carry restrictions violate the Second Amendment—but argues the plaintiffs still cannot obtain relief against him. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Freeman Martin has told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that three Texas restrictions on carrying firearms are unconstitutional. But the laws remain on the […]
New Survey Estimates Americans Own 461 Million Firearms; Federal Data Show Nearly Identical Type Mix
William English’s 2026 National Firearms Survey estimates Americans privately own roughly 208 million handguns, 154 million rifles, and 99 million shotguns. A separate analysis of more than a century of federal firearms-commerce data produces an almost identical handgun-rifle-shotgun distribution. A new national firearms survey estimates that American adults privately own approximately 461 million firearms. The […]