Denver, Colorado — April 21, 2021 — Cody J. Wisniewski, Director of Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms, issued the following statement in response to Boulder City Council’s April 20 Resolution supporting Gun Control: “Nearly 3 years ago, when the Boulder City Council was in the process of passing its firearm and…
– Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) filed its opening brief on Thursday in Syracuse v. ATF. The underlying case implicates how the federal government applies the legal definition of firearms as well as Americans’ liberty to self-manufacture firearms for personal use.
MSLF Attorney Cody J. Wisneiwski, who runs the Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms, released the following statement today in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to not hear three cases involving Americans who face lifetime gun bans for tax filing violations and other nonviolent offenses:
Cody J. Wisniewski, Director of MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA), released the following statement today in response to President Joe Biden’s executive actions related to firearms and the Second Amendment: “The Center to Keep and Bear Arms anticipated that the Biden Administration would resort to executive orders to force unconstitutional gun control…
MSLF and the Center to Keep and Bear Arms released the following statement today in response to the horrific and heartbreaking murders in Boulder and Atlanta. This is the only comment we’re making at this time, out of respect for an ongoing federal court case and continuing police investigations.
On Friday a Colorado state district court struck down a Boulder, Colorado, ban on the sale, possession, and transfer of certain commonly-owned semi-automatic pistols, rifles, and shotguns—which the city derisively labeled “assault weapons”—and standard capacity magazines that could accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The district court struck down Boulder’s ban based on Colorado…
That the punishment should fit the crime is a widely held axiom. If you lie on a tax return, you might expect to face certain consequences, such as fines and the repayment of back taxes, probably with interest, and perhaps even home confinement, or (in the extreme case) prison time. But you would not expect a…
Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) on Friday asked a federal judge in the Northern District of California to include its clients as intervenors in California v. ATF, a case that could dramatically change the way the federal government defines and regulates “firearms.”
The right to craft and customize firearms is integral to the right to determine which arms one will “keep and bear.”
Biden isn’t bluffing about his intent to use federal power, unilaterally or in tandem with Congress, to restrict your Second Amendment-protected rights. And don’t say we didn’t warn
This January, as the Biden-Harris administration took over, gun sales were up 80 percent from the same time last year. Clearly, Americans are determined not to be disarmed. And the Center to Keep and Bear Arms is already taking this fight to the highest level.
It’s simple. Things that aren’t “firearms” cannot be regulated as “firearms” under the federal Gun Control Act.
January 29, 2020 – Denver, Colorado – Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) today appealed a judge’s decision to deny its clients intervenor status in Syracuse v ATF, a case that could redefine the term “firearm” under federal law, arguing that excluding CKBA’s clients from the case will also exclude perspectives and legal arguments no one else will adequately present. The Center represents private citizens whose ability to build firearms for personal use could be impaired…
Mountain States Legal Foundation’s (MSLF) Center to Keep and Bear Arms is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear the case of a Pennsylvania woman who was denied the right to purchase a firearm because of a ten-year-old false statements conviction.
