Claiming his new gun control laws will improve public safety while respecting the rights of gun owners, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont this week signed sweeping legislation which limits the number of handguns that may be purchased in a 30-day period, bans open carry, increases penalties for failure to report lost or stolen guns and requires […]

A federal district judge in Tacoma has denied a motion from gun rights organizations challenging Washington’s new law banning so-called “assault weapons” for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law pending a trial. The motion was filed earlier this year by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), a business in […]

A Chicago lawsuit against a Gary, Indiana gun shop which alleged the store repeatedly sold guns to straw purchasers in violation of federal law was dismissed Thursday by a Cook County Circuit Court judge. Judge Clare J. Quish issued the seven-page ruling in the city’s lawsuit against Westforth Sports, Inc., of Gary, a city about […]

Days after it was reported the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) had alerted Congress and President Joe Biden about allegations of waste, mismanagement and unlawful employment practices at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a leading gun rights organization is asking Congress to block agency funding in the 2024 budget until the charges […]

Noting that a law designed to “prevent law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms” is “plainly unconstitutional,” a federal judge in New Jersey on Tuesday granted, in part, a preliminary injunction in a challenge of that state’s restrictive new concealed carry law. The state quickly appealed. The […]