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Wisconsin Court: Foster Parents Can’t Be Forced Into Extra Gun Rules
Signing up to foster shouldn’t mean listing your guns for the state like a parolee.
state legislationNorth Carolina Constitutional Carry Is One House Vote From Law — Clock Ticking
Almost every red-legislature state already has permitless carry. North Carolina is stuck in the veto graveyard — for now.
atf regulationATF Wants Same-State Guns Shipped to Your Door — NICS Still Required
If you live hours from a dealer, ATF is finally proposing to treat Title I firearms more like the remote transfer world NFA buyers already know.
litigation5th Circuit Tees Up the Question: Is a Living-Room Gun Really Interstate Commerce?
A handgun in a New Orleans living room is a lot of things. Interstate commerce may not be one of them.
cultureFree Press Culture Shift: Ex-Park Slope Mom Asks, “Should I Get a Gun?”
The cultural tell isn’t a SCOTUS cert grant. It’s a blue-city writer admitting the anti-gun story stopped making sense.
atf regulationClyde to ATF: Cap 4473 Retention at 20 Years — And Destroy the Digital Registry
ATF’s “reform” retention rule still smells like a registry. House gun-rights members just put that in writing.
litigationDOJ Sues Montgomery County — Wolford Says Daily Carry Can’t Be a Maze of Gun-Free Bubbles
The Justice Department just told a Maryland county that Wolford wasn’t a suggestion.
litigationTexas Judge: NFA Registry for Suppressors and SBRs Is Unconstitutional
A Northern District of Texas judge just told ATF it cannot keep a gun registry for items Congress stopped taxing.
atf regulationATF Comment Clock Ends Today — NRA Just Filed on Straw Buys, 4473s, and Dealer Rules
If you were waiting to tell ATF how reform should actually work, the window is hours from slamming shut.
litigationVirginia’s AR Ban Stays Dead — Court Locks Injunction Until SCOTUS Rules
A Virginia state judge just froze the litigation clock on Richmond’s assault-firearm ban — and left the statewide injunction running the whole time.
ArchiveKelTec's $511 Folder Now Shoots the Round That Beats Soft Armor
KelTec just stuffed a NATO armor-defeating round into a carbine that folds smaller than your laptop and costs $511 out the door.
ArchiveTrump Yanks Suppressors From State Dept. — Manufacturers Win Big
The Trump administration just ripped suppressor exports out of the State Department's Cold War weapons-control framework and handed oversight to the Commerce Department — a regulatory gut-punch to bureaucrats who spent years treating hunters' ear protection like Javelin missiles.
ArchiveThe Number That Could Kill Your AR-15 (And SCOTUS Invented It)
Your AR-15 isn't protected by the Second Amendment right now — it's protected by a headcount, and one Second Amendment plaintiff says that loophole is a loaded gun aimed straight at your rights.
ArchiveVirginia Just Told a Court You Have No Individual Gun Rights
Virginia's lawyers just walked into a courtroom and argued your right to keep and bear arms isn't yours — it belongs to the militia, and the state decides what that means.
ArchiveDSA Published a 28th Amendment. It Bans Every Gun That Reloads.
The Democratic Socialists of America put it in writing, on their own website, in plain English: repeal the Second Amendment and replace it with a constitutional ban on every pump-action, semi-automatic, and automatic firearm in America — and they had the audacity to call it a compromise.
Archive7 Groups Just Stormed Maryland's Highest Court Over Its Carry Permit Blacklist
Maryland has a policy: your carry permit means nothing here. Seven major Second Amendment organizations just showed up at the state's highest court and told them to try defending that in writing.
ArchiveLouisiana Says 18-Year-Olds Can Carry — Then Traps Them in 1,300 Invisible Gun-Free Zones
Louisiana handed 18-year-olds the right to carry a handgun — then quietly surrounded them with 1,300 invisible federal felony zones they can never legally escape.
ArchiveOhio Fair: Check Your Gun at the Barn Door
Ohio is a shall-issue state. The Ohio State Fair opens July 23. And a state bureaucracy just decided that a prize-winning pig is worth more than your constitutional right — the moment you cross a barn threshold, you're disarmed and on your own.
ArchiveTrump's DOJ to USVI: Your AR-15 Ban Is Illegal — Back Down
The Justice Department just told the U.S. Virgin Islands what Biden's DOJ never would: your ban on AR-15s and standard-capacity magazines violates the Constitution, the Third Circuit already said so, and you don't get to ignore it.
ArchiveHe Died at His Desk in 1926. His Pistol Still Breaks Their Ban Logic.
John Browning's heart stopped inside the FN factory on November 26, 1926 — blueprints spread across his desk, pistol unfinished. That pistol went on to arm over 50 nations, outlast the Soviet Union, and make every 'high-capacity' magazine ban look exactly as stupid as it is.
ArchiveArmed Wife. One Shot. DA Said: Lawful. In Massachusetts.
In one of the most anti-gun states in America, a wife drew her firearm, fired once at an armed attacker chasing her husband to their own front door — and the DA looked at every piece of evidence and said: she was right.
ArchiveTwo Injunctions Down. AG Jones Ran. PSA Ships Today.
Palmetto State Armory started shipping semi-automatic rifles and standard-capacity magazines back into Virginia on July 21 — the same day a federal judge finished humiliating AG Jay Jones and made the commonwealth's "assault firearms" ban legally radioactive.
legislationNew House Bill: Carry on Federal Lands — Including the Visitor Center
Two House Republicans just introduced a bill that says what every hunter and hiker already knows: stepping into a National Park restroom should not strip your right to carry.
atf regulationATF’s FOPA Travel Fix Is Live in Rulemaking — NRA Just Filed to Make It Stick
Forty years after Congress wrote a federal safe-passage right for traveling gun owners, ATF is rewriting the regulation that was supposed to make that right real — and NRA just put its comment on the record.
Archive10-Year Sentence for Carrying in the USVI? GOA Just Filed Suit
Gun Owners of America filed a federal lawsuit July 20 against the U.S. Virgin Islands over a gun-licensing scheme that leaves law-abiding American visitors facing a ten-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for carrying the same firearm they legally carry at home.
ArchiveNJ's AR-15 Ban Dies July 31 — State Police Just Told Every Dealer
New Jersey State Police just sent every licensed gun dealer in the state the message AG Matt Platkin never wanted them to receive: the AR-15 and standard-capacity magazine bans are dead, effective July 31, 2026 — and the man who lost the case is still 'working on' telling dealers what that means.
ArchiveBrady Lost in Court. Now They're Flooding Hawaii With Propaganda Signs.
The Supreme Court told Hawaii its gun restrictions were unconstitutional. The Third Circuit killed New Jersey's AR ban. So the anti-gun lobby did what it always does when it loses in court — it went around the courts entirely.
ArchiveFifth Circuit Just Torched the Feds' Forever Gun Hook
The full Fifth Circuit just erased its own ruling and agreed to decide whether a single state-line crossing — decades ago, no commerce, no sale, just a gun sitting in your home — gives Washington permanent power over that firearm forever.
ArchiveTalarico Hired 'C*cks Not Glocks' Leader to Write His Gun Bills
James Talarico's very first act as a Texas lawmaker was handing a pen to the woman who built a movement mocking students for carrying legally on campus — and she used it to try to turn Texas into a may-issue state.
ArchiveDOJ Surrenders in 41 Words — Post Office Gun Ban Dead
The Department of Justice filed a 41-word motion on July 16 to abandon its defense of the federal post office gun ban — and couldn't be bothered to write a single sentence explaining why.
ArchiveThird Circuit Just Nuked NJ's AR Ban. All of It.
The entire Third Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled New Jersey's AR ban and magazine limit unconstitutional — and Phil Murphy's flagship gun laws are now dead.
ArchiveWolford Just Handed 2A Lawyers the Key to Blow Open Every State's Carry Ban
Anti-gun states spent years building a two-pillar fortress — ban the guns, then make carrying anything else a felony trap for out-of-staters. Wolford just cracked one pillar. Barnett v. Raoul could detonate the other.
ArchiveNRA, FPC & SAF Just Put the $200 SBR Tax Stamp on Trial
For 90 years, the federal government charged gun owners $200, made them wait up to a year, and demanded a permission slip to own a short-barreled rifle — and on Monday, four of the most powerful 2A organizations in America walked into the Sixth Circuit and said: prove you were ever allowed to do that.
court watchNSSF Takes Illinois AR Ban Straight to SCOTUS — Barnett Trial Record vs Seventh Circuit
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is not waiting for the Seventh Circuit to have the last word on Illinois's AR-15 ban. NSSF announced it will petition the Supreme Court in Barnett v. Raoul — the case with the trial record the justices already took without.
state lawVirginia's Gun and Immigration Laws Are in Court Chaos — Seven Suits, Zero Clarity
Virginia Democrats wanted July 1 to be the day their gun and immigration agenda locked in. Instead, it became the opening bell for a courthouse brawl with no clean answer for gun owners or sheriffs.
court watchCalifornia Glock Ban Stays in Force — Judge Denies DOJ Emergency Block
The Trump Justice Department sued California on July 1 to stop Assembly Bill 1127 — the so-called Glock ban on dealer sales of striker-fired pistols with cruciform trigger bars. On July 9, a federal judge said the emergency motion fails.
court watchGOA Sues Pennsylvania — Lifetime Carry Ban Over a 1994 Joint Cannot Survive Hemani
Craig Philips served in the Air Force during the Gulf War, retired from the VA, and can still legally buy guns. Pennsylvania says he can never carry one in public — because of a marijuana misdemeanor from 1994.
court watchFPC Sues Denver and Colorado — 37-Year City AR Ban Meets Bruen and a SCOTUS Clock
Denver has banned what it calls assault weapons since 1989. Firearms Policy Coalition and the Colorado State Shooting Association say that era ended when Bruen became the law — and they filed Elliott v. Denver to prove it.
legislationNRA Sues Illinois Over 72-Hour Waiting Period — Background Check Is Not Enough
Illinois already makes buying a gun a paperwork marathon. Now the NRA is asking a federal court to kill the part that assumes you cannot be trusted with a firearm you already passed a background check to buy.
court watchSeventh Circuit Upholds Illinois AR Ban — SCOTUS Is the Only Exit Left
Illinois gun owners lost the intermediate round: the Seventh Circuit upheld the Protect Illinois Communities Act on Thursday, reversing a lower court that had struck the state's AR-15 and magazine bans.
court watchVirginia's AR Ban Injunction Just Went Statewide — Enforcement Stops July 21
Virginia gun owners got the scope question answered: the preliminary injunction blocking Governor Abigail Spanberger's assault-weapon and magazine bans applies statewide — and it takes effect July 21.
litigationEven Easterbrook Says Lifetime Gun Bans Need Proof of Present Danger — Rose Remands
Judge Frank Easterbrook — no friend of the Second Amendment in Bevis v. Naperville — just handed gun-rights litigators the sentence they have been building toward since Rahimi: you cannot strip firearms for life without proof someone is dangerous right now.
state lawCalifornia's Anti-Gun Package Survives Summer Recess — Eight Bills Still Alive for August
California's Legislature broke for summer recess on July 2 with a stack of anti-gun bills still moving — from expanded red-flag ammo rules and mandatory four-hour safety courses to dealer inspection mandates and restrictions on 3D printers.
second amendmentAmerica at 250 — The Second Amendment Is Still the Founders' Bet on Independence
Fireworks will light the sky tonight for the 250th anniversary of American independence — and for gun owners, the day is inseparable from the right the founders wrote into law fifteen years later: the Second Amendment.
ArchiveSCOTUS Takes the AR-15 Case — Bans in 6 States Now on the Clock
The Supreme Court just took the AR-15 case — and every assault weapon ban in America is now one ruling away from the trash heap of unconstitutional law.
OpinionThe Supreme Court Finally Called the Question on AR-15 Bans
For a decade, blue states banned AR-15s and dared the Court to stop them. On June 30, the justices took the dare — and every gun owner in America should understand what happens next.
litigationSupreme Court Takes Up AR-15 Bans — Viramontes and Grant Cases Granted for Next Term
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will hear arguments next term on whether bans on AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles violate the Second Amendment — consolidating an Illinois man's challenge to Cook County's ordinance with gun owners' challenge to Connecticut's state law.
ArchiveSCOTUS Just Forced NJ to Defend Its AR-15 Ban — and It Can't
New Jersey built its entire AR-15 ban defense on one claim — and the Supreme Court just incinerated it.
litigationGOA and VCDL Win Block on Virginia 'Assault Weapons' Ban Days Before July 1
Gun Owners of America and the Virginia Citizens Defense League say they secured a preliminary injunction June 25 in Crump v. Katz, blocking Virginia State Police from enforcing Governor Abigail Spanberger's assault-weapons and magazine ban while the constitutional challenge moves forward.
court_watchSCOTUS Kills Hawaii's Carry 'Vampire Rule' in 6–3 Wolford Win
The Supreme Court on June 25, 2026 struck down Hawaii's so-called vampire rule in Wolford v. Lopez, holding 6–3 that states cannot presume concealed-carry permit holders are trespassers the moment they walk into a gas station, restaurant, or shop unless the property owner expressly invites the gun in.