Category: Gun Law

A federal judge blocked Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s ban on carrying firearms on Wednesday, issuing a temporary restraining order to prevent it from taking effect. According to Reuters, U.S. District Court Judge David Urias stated that the injunction prohibiting concealed and open carry privileges in and around Albuquerque violated a 2022 U.S. […]

Two Republican New Mexico lawmakers have called for Michelle Lujan Grisham’s impeachment for her public health emergency order, which seeks to restrict legal gun owners’ ability to carry their firearms in and around Albuquerque. Due to previous shootings, Lujan Grisham issued a public health emergency order on Friday, prohibiting lawful gun owners from carrying guns […]

Joe Biden declared war on the Second Amendment during his first days in office, and now he is escalating his campaign to remove our liberties to new heights. According to The Washington Post, Biden’s aggressive Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is preparing to implement new rules requiring background checks on more gun transactions. […]

Most gun owners will be unable to sell privately held firearms to friends or relatives if a new federal rule proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is implemented. According to an agency leak confirmed by AmmoLand on Monday, the government intends to impose a new rule that would prohibit gun owners from […]

House Democrats are attempting to impose a significant tax on what they refer to as “assault weapons” in anticipation of a new federal regulation that may drastically alter the definition of a gun dealer. According to Fox News, 25 House Democrats on Friday suggested a 1,000 percent excise tax on so-called assault rifles and large-capacity […]

This Thursday, a federal appeals court determined that a Biden administration regulation banning stabilizing braces for weapons is probably unlawful and remanded the matter to a judge for further consideration. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives website states that stabilizing braces, often referred to as pistol braces, “[provide] surface area that allows the […]

United States v. Rahimi will be the subject of another Second Amendment case that the Supreme Court will consider next term. The choice to hear Rahimi’s case was made just one year after the Supreme Court rendered its landmark Bruen ruling. For supporters of the Second Amendment, that might be good news—or bad. In order […]

Nobody was surprised to learn that only a very small number of braced gun owners went through the hassle of filling out an eForm 1 for braced pistols they had during the just-ended “amnesty” period. Before the “grace period” for registrations ended on May 31st, the ATF claims to have received little more than a […]

Judge Drew Tipton of the Fifth District Court issued an injunction last night to prevent the ATF from enforcing the pistol brace rule that became effective today. Judge Tipton’s order in Texas v. ATF is applicable to the listed plaintiffs in the complaint, much like it did with an earlier Fifth Circuit decision in Mock […]

The Fifth Circuit’s Order clarifies that the Injunction Pending Appeal in Mock v. Garland applies to FPC’s members, Maxim Defense’s customers, and the individual plaintiffs’ resident family members. The order, along with other case documents, can be viewed at FPCLaw.org. FPC challenged ATF’s administrative rule that seeks to reclassify “braced pistols” as “short-barreled rifles.” In […]