Maryland’s Anne Arundel County has been hit with a federal lawsuit for allegedly violating the First Amendment rights of local gun shops with a mandate those businesses post and make available county-produced “gun safety” literature that discusses suicide prevention. The Baltimore Sun Editorial Board declared in a Tuesday editorial the lawsuit “screams the kind of […]
Maryland AG Asks Supremes to Deny Review of Gun Ban Challenge
Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh has filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that a challenge to the state ban on so-called “assault weapons” be denied review, arguing that such firearms have been used in several mass shootings, according to a report in The Daily Record. Frosh may be facing a daunting […]
25 State AGs Ask Supreme Court to Review Challenge to Maryland Gun Ban
UPDATED: Fully half of all Attorneys General in the United States have submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to hear a challenge to a restrictive gun law in Maryland, in a case filed by a trio of gun rights organizations, one private business and three Maryland residents, as reported first […]
SAF, Partners Get Busy in Court; Are They ‘Extremist’ Groups?
Mother Jones just published an article about the troubles plaguing the National Rifle Association in which it suggested several other, far more “extreme” organizations might move in to fill any void, and among those radical outfits it listed the Second Amendment Foundation. That’s the group currently blazing a legal trail through a maze of offensive […]
A Tough Year for Gun Owners, Another Looms on Horizon
The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018 could have the most significant long-term impact on gun rights in the nation. (Screen capture, YouTube) America’s gun owners may be particularly eager to celebrate the end of 2018 next Monday night, because for Second Amendment activists, it has been a tough year, and […]
Why Gun Control Fails: Proponents Just Don’t Get It
A weekend story in the Capital Gazette, the Maryland newspaper that experienced a mass shooting incident earlier this year in which five staffers were killed, featured an interview with perennial anti-gun Democrat U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen that illustrates why gun control is doomed to failure. Proponents just don’t get it, and if they could […]