Data shows that the number of homicides in Washington State skyrocketed after Second Amendment Rights were restricted. According to a report released July 10 (pdf), the rate of murders, violence, and property crimes rose across Washington state in 2022, while the number of law enforcement officers available to respond and protect citizens decreased. Specifically, the…

Two Virginia-based gun rights organizations sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) over policy changes concerning federal firearms licensed (FFL) gun dealers. Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) claim the policy was rewritten to advance the Biden administration’s anti-Second Amendment agenda. “This zero-tolerance policy towards lawful commerce…

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on whether people under domestic violence restraining orders have the right to possess firearms, announcing Friday that it will hear a case on the matter during its next term. The court on Friday agreed to review an appeal by President Joe Biden’s administration of a lower court’s ruling that…

The Senate on Thursday shot down a Republican-backed joint resolution that disapproves the Biden administration’s new rule on pistol braces. The resolution, originally sponsored by 182 Republican members of Congress, passed the House last week by a largely party-line vote of 219-210. It failed by one vote, 49-50, in the Senate. The measure would have…

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) decried an “anti-Second Amendment” rule in the Senate today as he criticized the pistol brace ban that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) introduced in January. Kennedy used a pistol brace he had brought to the Senate floor to demonstrate how the device would not make a gun…

The House of Representatives approved a bill to nullify a controversial rule from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) regulating pistol stabilizing braces. The measure will now proceed to the Democrat-controlled Senate, where it is expected to fail. President Joe Biden has said he will veto the bill if it clears the…

A trial held in Portland last week aims to determine whether Oregon’s voter-approved gun-control measure is constitutional in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer. Should Ballot Measure 14 survive this legal test, the state would have among the strictest gun laws in the nation. The measure at issue would ban the manufacture…

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has overwhelmingly ruled that a man convicted of a non-violent crime cannot be stripped of his Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. In an 11-4 ruling (pdf) delivered on Tuesday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Bryan Range, a Pennsylvania man who was banned…

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has overwhelmingly ruled that a Pennsylvania man convicted of a nonviolent crime cannot be stripped of his Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. In an 11–4 ruling (pdf) delivered on June 6, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Bryan Range, who was banned from…

Presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that he supports Second Amendment and would not seek a gun confiscation program if elected. Asked about his stance on gun rights by The Epoch Times, Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, replied, “I support the Constitution that includes the Second Amendment.” “I’m not going to…