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CA: Exploring 2A Pillars: The “Where”
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Where would you feel comfortable enough that you would give up your fundamental right to self-defense? This becomes a very important question when the state starts to strip away your right to concealed carry.
In the second installment of our special CRPA TV series, Chuck Michel is back to dive into the momentous decision in Wolford v. Lopez, striking down significant portions of Hawaii’s “sensitive places” law. As a Ninth Circuit case, the decision in Wolford bears directly on CRPA’s challenge to California’s SB 2. That case, May v. Bonta, was recently formally reopened in light of Wolford. |
TX: Taking Down the NFA
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A U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of Texas delivered a massive ruling for gun owners yesterday, killing, at least for now, the remaining “registration scheme” for short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and suppressors, calling it unconstitutional.
The ruling comes from the Jesnsen v. ATF case supported by the Second Amendment Foundation, along with Silencer Shop Foundation, et. al. v. ATF.
The ruling marks the most significant win against the National Firearms Act since its passage in 1934. In essence, following the One Big Beautiful Bill’s passage, the $200 tax was removed from criteria to buy suppressors and SBRs. |
CA: SAF Files Motion for Preliminary Injunction in CA Glock Ban Lawsuit
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a motion for preliminary injunction in Renna v. Bonta, its case now challenging California's Glock ban in addition to California's Handgun Roster.
In October last year, lawmakers in California passed Assembly Bill 1127, which expanded the already unconstitutional Unsafe Handgun Act (UHA), stating that on July 1, 2026 "…licensed firearms dealers 'shall not sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol.'" |
CA: Second Amendment Foundation Reaches Settlement In California Carry Rights Lawsuit
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The Second Amendment Foundation and co-plaintiffs announced a settlement Thursday resolving the remaining claims in California Rifle and Pistol Association v. LASD, a lawsuit challenging concealed carry permit delays and regulations enforced by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The agreement comes after the department represented that it is now processing concealed carry weapon applications within the 120-day timeframe mandated by California law. |
CA: LA Waves White Flag In Concealed Carry Case
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) announced that a California sheriff’s department has settled a lawsuit regarding the issuance of concealed carry permits.
Pro-Second Amendment organizations and individual plaintiffs originally filed the suit in December 2023, accusing California jurisdictions of charging excessive fees and being dilatory in processing applications for carry permits. The group celebrated the settlement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in a Thursday release. |
OH: Barberton man not guilty in deadly shooting of Nathan Flight
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A Summit County judge found a Barberton man, 26-year-old Justice Oney, not guilty of murdering 25-year-old Nathan Flight of Canton. Oney had argued he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Flight.
The verdict came after Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands, acting also as the jury in the bench trial, heard testimony from Oney and his wife, who provided differing explanations of what happened in the early morning hours of April 14, 2025, leading to Flight's death.
Rowlands found Oney not guilty of murder, felony murder, abduction and two counts of felonious assault and the associated firearm specifications. |
AL: Mobile, AL Man Robbed at Gunpoint Draws His Own Pistol, But Doesn’t Win the Gunfight
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A man walking on Seale Street Monday evening was confronted by a stranger who tried to rob him at gunpoint, pulled a gun of his own, and was shot before the other person fled the area, according to the Mobile Police Department.
Officers were called to Eoline Street around 6:50 p.m. on Aug. 3 for a report of a shooting, according to an MPD news release as reported by WKRG News 5. They found a man there with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Investigators determined the man had been walking on Seale Street earlier in the evening when a person he did not know attempted to rob him at gunpoint, police said. The man then pulled out his gun. The other person shot him. Then that person left the area. |
TX: Kobach hails Second Amendment victory in ATF lawsuit
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The office of Attorney General Kris Kobach is celebrating a Second Amendment victory.
Kobach said in a Wednesday news release that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has barred the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from “enforcing registration, reporting and record keeping requirements that applied to suppressors and short-barreled rifles and shotguns.”
“Today, the state of Kansas and our fellow plaintiffs won a great victory against the U.S. Department of Justice,... |
What is “trapped in amber”? An originalist explanation
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The expression has become increasingly popular in the lower courts, too. Earlier this week, law professor Richard Re traced the history of the metaphor and its rapid spread over the past two years.
As Re correctly recognizes, though early uses of the phrase evoked a living Constitution – one whose meaning evolves over time – each of the references collected above traces back to a line in the Supreme Court’s originalist decision in United States v. Rahimi, in which the court upheld a federal law that disarms those under a domestic violence restraining order. There, the court used the phrase to clarify that its Second Amendment precedents “were not meant to suggest a law trapped in amber.” The court continued: |
SAF Files Reply Brief In Unlawful Search Lawsuit
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a reply brief in a case challenging the unconstitutional search of an 18-year-old high school senior’s vehicle that was based solely on the knowledge that he is a legal gun owner.
In October last year, SAF filed Harrington v. Crawford after Hillsboro-Deering High School student Jack Harrington’s vehicle was illegally searched while parked on school grounds. Harrington lawfully owns a handgun and sometimes kept his firearm in his truck – in full compliance with all federal and state laws – but always removed the gun from his vehicle before going to school. When school authorities became aware of Harrington’s gun ownership... |
FL: Holly Hill Police invite residents to sign up for civilian weapons training
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The Holly Hill Police Department is inviting residents to sign up for its next Civilian Weapons Training class.
Officials said the date of the next training session has not yet been determined due to weather concerns. The department said it will provide an update once a new class date is scheduled.
Anyone interested in attending must RSVP with Daisy at 386-248-9475 or by email at dalejandromorales@hollyhillfl.org.
Participants will need to provide their full name, date of birth, driver’s license number, phone number, and email address when registering.
According to the department, attendees must be 21 years old or older to participate. |
WA: U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bellevue group’s challenge of AR-15 bans
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The U.S. Supreme Court next year could overturn state bans on semiautomatic rifles that would invalidate laws in a dozen states, including the ban passed by Washington lawmakers in 2023.
The court announced that next term it will hear a case that consolidates two legal challenges to semiautomatic rifle bans: a Cook County prohibition that predates the broader Illinois ban, and one from Connecticut.
The court’s decision in late June was welcome news to Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation. A nonprofit started in 1974, the foundation is powering the two rifle ban cases that have been accepted by the court. |
ME: Paul LePage receives NRA endorsement for CD2 race
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“Governor LePage's record on the second amendment is impeccable, he has been a stalwart supporter of our members and gun owners across Maine and really stands for constitutional freedom, so the choice was really clear for us in this race," said Commerford.
LePage said if elected to Congress he would seek to repeal any federal policy that does not align with the second amendment and said he is not open to any compromises when it comes to gun rights.
"I will defend the second amendment to the extreme, I do not believe that government is the answer, I think the constitution gives us the ability to own and carry guns and I think we need to protect that and I will fight against anyone trying to ban guns in the United States,"... |
CA: SAF Announces Settlement In Major California Carry Rights Lawsuit
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners are pleased to announce a settlement resolving the remaining claims in California Rifle and Pistol Association v. LASD, SAF’s challenge to numerous Second Amendment infringements by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD).
The settlement follows LASD’s representation that it is now processing concealed carry weapon (CCW) permit applications within the 120-day period required by California law. The case, originally filed to address multiple systemic barriers to the right to carry in California, produced several significant victories along the way. |
LA: A gun sat in a living room. The feds called it ‘interstate commerce’
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It wasn’t. On July 20, the full 5th Circuit voted to rehear the case en banc, and Squire’s lawyers switched arguments entirely. They dropped the Second Amendment and went after something more foundational: the commerce clause. Their claim is that Congress never had the constitutional authority to make simple gun possession a federal crime in the first place, because a handgun sitting in a Louisiana living room isn’t interstate commerce. It’s just a gun in a house.
That question matters more than the defendant does. Under current doctrine, the government satisfies section 922(g)’s commerce element by showing that a firearm or a round of ammunition crossed a state line at some point in its existence, ever, by anyone, for any reason. |
TX: Judge: Short-Barreled Rifle, Suppressor NFA Registration Scheme Unconstitutional
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A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the remaining registration scheme for short-barreled rifles and suppressors in the National Firearms Act (NFA) is unconstitutional in Jensen v. ATF, a case supported by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
Since 1934, the NFA required anyone who wished to purchase certain classes of firearms, including silencers and short-barreled rifles, to pay a $200 tax and register the firearm with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), purportedly drawing from Congressional authority to levy taxes. |
Court: NFA Regulations on Zero Tax Items Like Suppressors, SBRs, SBSs Unlawful
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Keep in mind this is a ruling by one of 94 federal district courts in the land and is limited to the jurisdiction of that court and the plaintiffs that brought the challenges. Further, the injunction by Hendrix is stayed for seven days "to allow the defendants to seek relief, if any, at the appellate level."
Now the ball is in the hands of the Trump administration, which could either continue to defend the tax-less portions of the NFA's taxing scheme on the taxpayers' dime, which is almost assured, or simply accept the court's injunction. Should the latter occur, it remains to be seen if suppressors, SBRs, and SBSs, would be reclassified from Title II (NFA) firearms to Title I (standard) firearms... |
TX: Federal Court Rules Key National Firearms Act Restrictions Are Unconstitutional in GOA Lawsuit
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Gun Owners of America (GOA) and fellow plaintiffs scored a major win today. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that key National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) restrictions are unconstitutional for untaxed firearms and permanently blocked the ATF from enforcing them against the plaintiffs, their members, and their customers.
The lawsuit was brought by GOA, Gun Owners Foundation, Silencer Shop Foundation, Palmetto State Armory, SilencerCo, B&T USA, the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, individual plaintiff Brady Wetz, and a coalition of 15 pro-gun states: Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia... |
ME: NRA endorses Paul LePage for CD2 race
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The National Rifle Association announced their support Thursday for former Gov. Paul LePage in his Second District Congressional campaign.
During remarks at Maine Military Supply, LePage expressed his gratitude for the endorsement and his commitment to protecting Mainers’ Second Amendment rights.
“I do not believe that government is the answer. I think the Constitution gives us the ability to own and carry guns,” LePage said. “I think we need to protect that, and I would fight against anyone trying to ban guns in the United States.”
LePage is the Republican candidate running against Democrat Matt Dunlap.
NRA officials say countless members await the gun rights organization’s endorsements every voting season. |
What can the world tell us about gun laws?
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Criticisms of America’s constitutionally enshrined right to bear arms often elevate other country’s restrictive laws as models of good policy and examples of government’s “doing something” to address gun crimes.
But is this adulation warranted? Beyond talking points, does data exist that suggest America would do well to follow other nations’ lead on gun laws?
The answer is overwhelmingly and resoundingly, “No.” Multiple rounds of research demonstrate the reason.
Let’s look first to Australia. |
TX: Federal Court Strikes Major Blow Against National Firearms Act in FPC-Backed Lawsuit
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Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today announced a major victory against the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) in Jensen v. ATF, an FPC-backed lawsuit challenging the NFA's regulation of now-untaxed firearms, such as suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns. U.S. District Court Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled that "[b]y zeroing out the transfer and making taxes for most NFA firearms, Congress eliminated the constitutional basis for the regulations that formerly supported the taxes for those firearms."
The Court's injunction applies to "the plaintiffs and, where applicable, the plaintiffs' agencies, political subdivisions, members, and customers—both current and future,"... |
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