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NE: Nebraska Supreme Court Will Hear the Liberty Justice Center’s Lawsuit Challenging Lincoln Gun Restrictions
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The Nebraska Supreme Court has issued an order announcing that it will hear the Liberty Justice Center’s legal challenge to several Lincoln weapons ordinances and an executive order by Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird banning firearms on city property—even parks and trails—because they violate a state law protecting the right to bear arms statewide and banning local weapons regulations.
In April 2023, Nebraska enacted Legislative Bill 77, which establishes “constitutional carry” across the state, nullifies local laws that regulate weapons, and prohibits local governments from enacting new weapons regulations not expressly authorized by state law. |
NE: Nebraska Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to Lincoln gun regulations
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The Nebraska Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Liberty Justice Center’s legal challenge to several City of Lincoln weapon ordinances and an executive order by Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird.
The Court issued an order granting the Liberty Justice Center’s petition on Thursday. A hearing date has not yet been announced.
The litigation firm alleges the city’s ban on firearms on city property—including parks and trails—violates a state law protecting the right to bear arms statewide and banning local weapons regulations. |
CO: Lawmakers can’t carry guns in the state capitol anymore. They're trusting the honor system
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The prohibition on carrying guns in the State Capitol was expanded this year to include lawmakers, but it didn’t come with any new security protocols or enforcement.
Colorado lawmakers face a new rule this year: They can no longer bring guns into the State Capitol.
The ban is part of a state law passed last year that generally prohibits carrying guns in so-called “sensitive spaces,” including government buildings, polling places, childcare facilities, and schools. The law went into effect for most locations last summer. |
Rebranded SNT Will Show U.S.-Made Daewoo Guns at SHOT Show
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Since 1981, S&T Motiv Co. (formerly known as Daewoo Precision Industries) has been the premiere Korean firearms manufacturer. Now, the company has rebranded as SNT Motiv and established a Las Vegas headquarters for U.S. manufacturing with plans to offer made-in-America versions of several rifles and pistols to U.S. consumers in 2025.
If you’re visiting SHOT Show next week, stop by SNT’s booth #40341 to check out product samples and learn more about the company’s U.S. expansion and plans for upcoming releases. Models to be offered stateside include: |
SHOT Show 2025 Preview: More Assault Weapons and Silencers
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Next week, tens of thousands of gun makers and sellers will gather in Las Vegas for the annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the gun industry’s trade association. The largest trade show of its kind, the SHOT Show gives gun manufacturers and importers a chance to show off their new products to wholesalers, gun dealers, and media outlets that cover guns while celebrating the previous year’s sales with parties and mixers.
The NSSF boasts that SHOT Show attendees can walk “13.9 miles of aisles” to see all the new firearms, ammunition, and accessories on display. |
New Guns 2025: Heckler & Koch CC9 Pistol
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NRA Women have traditionally enjoyed shooting the variety of Heckler & Koch pistols, and the German-made pistols have consistently scored respectably in our Ladies Pistol Projects. But how about a made-in-America H&K? That’s right. Even those Heckler & Koch’s new CC9 pistol boasts German steel, the 9 mm Luger-chambered micro-compact is notable for more reasons than its size. The CC9 marks the first official product made at the Heckler & Koch facility in Columbus, Ga., meaning that it doesn't have to conform to German firearm export laws or U.S. firearm import laws like all Heckler & Koch's previous firearms. |
VA: Charges dismissed in MOD Pizza stabbing case
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A husband and wife are no longer facing charges in connection to the stabbing of a MOD Pizza employee, prosecutors say.
Both Corey and Catherine Harper were arrested back in November and charged with malicious wounding, with Corey facing an additional charge for brandishing a firearm.
However, the Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney's Office said the charges were dropped Tuesday. They said after reviewing a video of the entire incident, alongside additional evidence, they determined the couple was acting in legitimate self-defense. |
What Prohibition can teach us about the Second Amendment and Article V
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The Founding Fathers expressly warned against this. Choosing simply to ignore the Constitution, they believed, would enable tyrants to overstep their bounds.
Just as opponents of the Eighteenth Amendment had to repeal it by amendment before they could legislate against it, the same applies today, for example, to opponents of the Second Amendment.
The meaning of the text is unmistakably clear. “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” To in any way infringe upon that right is unconstitutional.
Ed.: Also, a President can't just tweet a new amendment into existence. |
Sen. Daines to introduce bill defending Second Amendment from woke companies
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Sen. Steve Daines is set to introduce a bill Thursday afternoon to prohibit the federal government from using taxpayers’ funds to enter contracts with anti-Second Amendment companies.
“Democrats and woke corporations have proven over and over again that they want to carry out an unconstitutional, overreaching, gun-grabbing agenda, and under no circumstances should our federal government use taxpayer dollars for these efforts,” said Daines, R-Mont. |
IL: Illinois Supreme Court hears arguments on a challenge to Illinois’ concealed carry law
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Amid multiple recent challenges to state gun control laws, the Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday concerning the constitutionality of concealed carry licenses and open carry bans.
Under Illinois’ aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statute, individuals are not allowed to carry a firearm in public unless the person has a valid Concealed Carry License. Tyshon Thompson, the defendant, was convicted of violating the statute in March 2022 after having been involved in a highway shooting two years earlier. |
Rep. Tenney’s SAGA Act Would Nullify NY’s SAFE Act
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A federal bill that would ensure that states are prohibited from banning the manufacture, sale, importation, or possession of any rifle or shotgun that is lawfully permitted under federal law has been introduced in Washington by Congresswoman Claudia Tenney.
Steuben and Schuyler County House Representative Nick Langworthy is a co-sponsor of the Second Amendment Guarantee Act, or SAGA. |
Why Trump AG’s Confirmation Hearing is Bad News for Gun-Rights Activists
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s Attorney General pick described herself as a Second Amendment advocate who would “enforce the laws of the land.” When asked about her support for new gun restrictions during her time as Florida’s AG, including backing age restrictions and helping craft a “red flag” law, she pointed to her experience responding to mass shootings as formative for her gun views. While she declined to endorse any particular gun-control proposal, her explanation of her beliefs sounded a lot more like what you’d expect from a modern Democrat than the next Republican AG.
More troubling for gun-rights activists than Bondi’s comments, though, may be who they were in response to. |
IL: What Second Amendment? Illinois governor to sign gun confiscation law into effect
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The State of Illinois’ Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Monday that he will sign House Bill 4144, a bill born as a measure dealing with the disruption of fire hydrants that was later gutted to incorporate “Karina’s Law.” The new measure now strips away the Second Amendment right to possess a firearm from anyone who is the subject of a domestic violence order of protection.
As reported by The Center Square, the now amended bill will require Police Departments to confiscate firearms from anyone who has an order of protection against them as opposed to the current statute which gives them the opportunity to hand over their firearms to a qualified, third party of their choice. |
Narrative Parroting Helps ‘Reasonable’ Tennessee Gun-grabbers Influence the Ignorant
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“Statewide organization asks legislators to pass gun safety laws in Tennessee,” Nashville’s WKTN-TV “reported” Jan. 8. “Voices for a Safer Tennessee… held a panel discussion on its 2025 goals.”
Note “reported” is in quotes. It’s not the first time a “real reporter” has filed a one-sided PR piece masked as news. This “journalist” ought to go far—until the publisher figures out AI can parrot talking points a lot cheaper. |
The United States Supreme Court, Does It Matter?
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On January 13, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear two Second Amendment-related cases, the first being a challenge to Delaware’s “assault weapons” and standard-capacity magazine ban and the second covering Maryland handgun licensing requirements. As I intend to be critical of the High Court, I offer in fairness to concede that its previously issued rulings that should have been considered by state legislation, especially in the case of Delaware, but were not. I understand the monotony of redundant legal challenges the justices have already ruled upon. However, ignoring or turning away these redundancies fails to address the real issue: lawmakers’ refusal to adhere to the Supreme Court’s decisions. |
Senators Introduce Bill to Stop ATF Overreach on Firearm Imports
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U.S. Senators Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Jim Risch (R-ID), along with a coalition of pro-Second Amendment lawmakers, have introduced the Sporting Firearms Access Act, a bill designed to prevent the ATF from arbitrarily blocking the import of firearms and ammunition into the United States. The legislation seeks to provide clarity to the “sporting purposes” test used by the ATF to regulate imports under the Gun Control Act of 1968. |
The Fight Heats Up to Destroy ATF’s Illegal Gun Owner Registry
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In a powerful testament to grassroots activism and legislative pushback, recent developments signal a significant challenge to what many see as overreaches by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The focus is a massive, nearly billion-record gun registry that has alarmed gun rights advocates and spurred action from Congressional leaders. |
KY: Laurel County Self-Defense Shooting Highlights Why You Should Always Have a Backup Gun
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A potential self-defense shooting is under investigation after an incident on the evening of January 13, 2025, at a residence off Hooppole Creek Road, approximately 12 miles east of London.
According to a report from the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a 911 call at around 9:09 PM regarding a male subject who had been shot. Upon arrival, investigators determined that two individuals at the residence had allegedly been assaulted by a male subject. During the altercation, the assailant reportedly reached for a firearm, at which point another male at the scene shot the individual, allegedly in self-defense. |
New Guns 2025: Mossberg 940 Pro Tactical SPX Shotgun
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In 2022 NRA Women was lucky enough to participate in a women-only shoot at the famed Gunsite Academy for the purposes of testing the then-new Mossberg 940 Pro Tactical 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun. The gun was so well-received, we ultimately awarded it the NRA Golden Bullseye for Long Gun of the Year.
We’re happy to report that for 2025 Mossberg has refined the widely popular shotgun, adding sought-after tactical features, and calling it the 940 Pro Tactical SPX. Based on Mossberg’s cleaner-running and redesigned 940 Pro gas-operating system, this feature-rich, optic-ready platform is available in 8-Shot or 5-Shot versions with 18.5” AccuChoke-compatible barrels. |
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