Packing the Supreme Court: What It Could Mean for Gun Owners
Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to define much of her policy agenda for voters to scrutinize. Much of that is being left to proxies. So far, she has indicated a continued march toward...
Biden Gets Busy for Harris As He Takes Swipe at Supreme Court
By Mark Oliva, NSSF President Joe Biden doesn’t plan on quietly exiting the political arena. He’s taking one last shot – albeit a wild swing – at the U.S....
What SCOTUS Chevron Decision Means for Gun Owners
Much of the coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the Chevron Deference doctrine suffers from one of two problems: Either it’s written by lawyers for lawyers and is therefore unintelligible...
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenges to Illinois Assault Weapons Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a series of challenges to Illinois' ban on assault weapons, leaving the controversial law in place for now but indicating potential future involvement, WTTW and The...
Supreme Court Overturns Chevron Doctrine Limiting Federal Agencies’ Regulatory Power
In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council ruling, which had granted federal agencies broad regulatory authority. This move upends the agencies' ability to...
Gun Rights and Domestic Violence: The Supreme Court Walks a Tightrope
The Supreme Court decision in Rahimi failed to produce the damage the anti-gun crowd hoped for against Bruen. The Bruen decision remains intact and will continue to be an important building block necessary to...
A Lawyer’s View on the Cargill Decision
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step in reining in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) administrative overreach. The Court held in Garland v. Cargill that the agency...
Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Gun Possession for Those Under Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
The Supreme Court ruled today that a federal law prohibiting individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms does not violate the Second Amendment. In an 8-1 decision, the justices upheld the...
Federal Bump Stock Ruling Doesn’t Eliminate State Bans on Same Products
Ryan Katz is an attorney with Florida law firm Katz & Phillips also known as the Firearm Firm, one of the leading gun law and gun rights supporting law firms in the country. As...
A Legal Take on the Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Ruling
When the Supreme Court ruled the federal government's Trump-era ban on bump stocks was overreach and struck the restriction down, it removed a shadow from many gun owners who likely still owned the devices,...
FPC, NRA File Briefs With Supreme Court Over Mexico Lawsuit
The case involving Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers and retailers for violence south of the border is beginning to see some action from pro-gun rights organizations. On Wednesday, both the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC)...