Second Amendment

Memo to America: Please Don’t Repeat Colorado’s Gun Control Missfire

According to Colorado’s state constitution, an individual’s right “to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property” shall not “be called in question.” But now that Colorado has become the first state in the nation to repeal its firearm preemption law, that right is very much in question.

Wisniewski Recognized By The Steamboat Institute as a Rising Star

Colorado Attorney Cody J. Wisniewski, the Director of Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms, has been invited to join The Steamboat Institute’s (SI) Emerging Leaders Advisory Council (ELC), a network of young professionals who the Institute sees as rising stars in the liberty movement and their chosen professions.

Does Your City Hate the Second Amendment?

Cody Wisniewski, director of Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms, writes at American Greatness: New York’s carry law effectively bans all public carriage of firearms, limiting…

MSLF Opposes Biden’s Proposed Pistol Brace Ban

Denver, Colorado — September 8, 2021 — Today, MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) filed formal comments opposing the Biden Administration’s proposed rule that would effectively ban millions of legally purchased and legally owned pistol braces. …

“Stabilizing” or “Pistol” Brace Rulemaking

CKBA Opposes Biden's Attempted Pistol Brace Ban

hat contradicts the plain meaning of the law, as well as longstanding Federal standards, the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks to redefine many pistols with stabilizing braces as “short-barreled rifles,” by a rule proposed for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in June 2021.  Owners of these newly redefined guns would be subject to an incredibly stringent set of registration requirements and taxes—as well federal felony convictions for any wrong step—under the National Firearms Act.