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 […]
Texas Gun Rights – One Big Beautiful Ballot (2026 Midterm election)
The candidates listed below have pledged to fight for your gun rights without compromise by returning a PRO-GUN Texas Gun Rights Candidate Survey. Don’t see your candidate? Tell them to fill out their TXGR Candidate Survey RIGHT AWAY! Print/Download candidate survey here. Not sure who your elected officials are? Look them up. As of 10/19/26: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rare Breed Beat the ATF. It Should Not Help the ATF Finish the Job.
Rare Breed earned the gun-rights community’s respect by defeating federal lawfare. Its sweeping patent campaign now risks turning a shared constitutional victory into a government-assisted chokepoint over lawful firearms innovation. Written by: Chris McNutt Rare Breed Triggers earned its place in the history of the modern gun-rights movement. For years, the company fought the federal […]
Flock’s Surveillance Grid Is Taking Flight Over Texas
Fort Worth has connected automated police drones to its license-plate readers and real-time crime center. Texas Gun Rights warns that today’s limited program could become tomorrow’s warrantless tracking machine. Government always asks gun owners to judge new powers by the promises of the politicians creating them. History tells us to judge those powers by what […]
Flock Cameras Can Track Gun Owners. Congress Is Fighting Back — Texas Must Act Next
Congressman Tim Burchett is taking aim at the growing government surveillance state. His newly introduced H.R. 9800, the Protection Against Mass Surveillance Act, would prohibit federal agencies from purchasing, operating, accessing, or contracting for Flock cameras and other automated systems that identify and track Americans. The bill also targets facial recognition and biometric surveillance, blocks state […]
Crossing a State Line Shouldn’t Cancel Your Gun Rights
A law-abiding Texan should not become a criminal just because he crosses into a hostile anti-gun state. But that is exactly the trap created by America’s broken patchwork of carry laws. A gun owner can be perfectly legal in Texas, drive across a state line, and suddenly be treated like a criminal for exercising the […]
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. […]