DOJ Is Finally Suing Gun-Ban States — Now It Must Deliver Lasting Victories
The Justice Department has launched a coordinated legal offensive against state and local gun restrictions. Texas Gun Rights says the campaign must produce binding precedent that survives the next administration. The United States Department of Justice is finally going on offense against gun-ban states and cities. Through its dedicated Second Amendment Section, led by former TXGR […]
Boebert Bill Would Repeal Federal Handgun Mailing Ban
The Freedom to Ship Act would remove a nearly century-old gun-control law and challenge discriminatory restrictions imposed by private shipping carriers. The Justice Department has already concluded that the federal ban on mailing handguns violates the Second Amendment. Now Congress has a chance to remove that restriction from federal law. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado introduced H.R. 9979, […]
DOJ Folds — But the Post Office Carry Ban Still Needs to Die
The federal government is backing down from its fight to defend the ban on carrying firearms at ordinary post offices. The Department of Justice has moved to voluntarily dismiss its appeal in the case challenging the decades-old federal restriction on carrying firearms inside post offices and on surrounding postal property. If granted by the Fifth Circuit, the […]
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 […]
DOJ Hides Gun-Rights Restoration Rules While Ordinary Americans Wait
The Department of Justice says it wants to restore Second Amendment rights. But now the DOJ is hiding records that could show ordinary Americans how that process actually works. According to Ammoland, the DOJ is refusing to release records tied to how certain individuals were selected for federal firearm-rights restoration, citing privacy concerns under federal open-records […]
Fifth Circuit Rejects DOJ Delay in ATF “Engaged in the Business” Lawsuit
The fight for the Second Amendment just scored a clear procedural victory as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) attempt to delay the legal challenge to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) controversial “engaged in the business” rule. The decision keeps the legal […]
Pam Bondi’s DOJ Defends NFA in Continued War On Gun Owners
Pam Bondi’s Department of Injustice (DOJ) just detonated a political and constitutional bombshell. In a stunning 48-page summary-judgment brief filed in SilencerShop Foundation v. ATF, DOJ is openly asking a federal judge to resurrect the National Firearms Act, preserve the federal gun registry, and declare that suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs are not protected by the Second Amendment. […]