This Final Rule, addressing the “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms,” alters the legal landscape surrounding firearms regulation, giving complete discretionary power to the ATF and its Director to decide what the ATF can regulate and how. The ATF is usurping Congress’s legislative power and is wielding the regulation to severely burden the practice of self-manufacture and the businesses that facilitate it.
On June 30, in a flurry of activity to close the term, the Supreme Court granted petitions in four Second Amendment cases, and immediately sent them back to lower courts, with instructions to follow the recent landmark gun rights decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which affirmed public carry as an essential part of the natural right protected by the Second Amendment. Bruen made it clear that Second Amendment cases must be judged purely by the constitutional text as informed by history, and that courts must place self-defense rights on the same level as other Bill of Rights guarantees.
Case Summary In an infringement of peaceable Americans’ right to choose the arms they see fit to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their communities, the State of Washington has…
MSLF and the Center to Keep and Bear Arms released the following statement today in response to the dreadful and heart-rending murders in Buffalo and Texas.
Supreme Court Should Uphold Natural Rights over Fourth Circuit’s Gun-Control Clichés In the decade-plus since the Supreme Court decided D.C. v. Heller, in which the Court vindicated our Constitution’s protection…
In the decade-plus since the Supreme Court decided D.C. v. Heller, in which the Court vindicated our Constitution’s protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms, many lower…
Ukraine Shows The World Why Gun Rights Are Human Rights The world is captivated by Ukraine’s resistance to Russian invasion, especially since much of Ukraine’s resistance comes from ordinary citizens…