MSLF makes its case in Syracuse v. ATF, which could redefine “firearm” under federal law
It’s simple. Things that aren’t “firearms” cannot be regulated as “firearms” under the federal Gun Control Act.
Second Amendment
America’s “Unforgiven” Battle Lifetime Gun Bans
Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear the case of Ken Flick, a Georgia resident who is barred for life from possessing a firearm because of a 1987 conviction for importing and reselling bootleg music cassettes.
Flick V. Wilkinson
The "Life Sentence" He Didn't Deserve
Ken Flick’s decades-old conviction—for importing and selling counterfeit cassette tapes in 1987—should not result in a lifetime ban from gun ownership.
Gun Control Activists Are Targeting the Right to Self-Sufficiency
“The latest assault on our basic right to arms is against this oft-neglected right to make and craft them,” writes MSLF attorney Cody J. Wisniewski in an opinion piece today at RealClearPolicy.
MSLF Battles to Ensure Clients are Heard
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…
America’s Unforgiven Face Lifelong Gun Ban: MSLF Urges Supreme Court to End That Injustice
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.
Folajtar v. Rosen
America's Unforgiven Face Lifelong Gun Ban
Case Summary Lisa Folajtar is being denied her Second Amendment protected right to keep and bear arms because of a 10-year-old conviction. In 2011, Folajtar pleaded guilting to willfully making…
Feds Are Arbitrarily Denying a Man’s Right to Own a Firearm
MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear the case of a Pennsylvania man who was denied the right to purchase a firearm because a fifteen-year-old misdemeanor DUI conviction.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 man who was denied the right to purchase a firearm because a fifteen-year-old misdemeanor DUI conviction.
Holloway v. Rosen
An Arbitrary Denial of Gun Rights
The federal government is denying an upstanding citizen his constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.
Mountain States Makes New Move In Case That Could Redefine “Firearm”
A legal chess match is underway that could determine how the federal government defines “firearms” in the future.