Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms has filed formal comments opposing the Biden Administration’s attempt to limit the guns rights of Americans by redefining the term “firearm.”
For years, gun control activists tried to force the federal government to regulate all kinds of objects that do not meet the legal definition of a “firearm.” Now, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) are doing the work for them.
Never let anyone tell you that the movement for gun rights is marginal, or confined to one demographic.
MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms this week argued in a filing that Washington’s continued flip-flop on what constitutes a “firearm” under federal law also requires a deeper examination of who should be granted intervenor status in Syracuse v. ATF, a potentially pivotal gun rights case.
Recently, Joel Osterhoudt of Reason published an interesting piece recognizing the rise in Second Amendment “sanctuary” states and cities across the nation. But in recognizing this important revelation in protecting individual rights, the article confuses two very distinct concepts—Anti-Commandeering and Nullification.
Gun control disproportionately impacts the poor and minorities and puts them at greater risk of prosecution.
Denver, CO – July 16, 2021 – As the Supreme Court moves toward its first major firearms decision in over a decade, Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and…
Case Summary Contrary to the natural rights of the People, as protected by the Second Amendment, ordinary citizens of New York are unable to carry firearms for self-defense outside the…
Recently, President Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), issued two proposed rules to “reinterpret” (see: make new law) existing federal gun control statutes.
Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) is urging the United States Supreme Court to take up an appeal brought by George K. Young, Jr., who has fought—since 2011—to have constitutionally protected gun rights honored in Hawaii.