New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen

On Tuesday, a U.S. district judge decided that California’s ban on concealed carry permits for non-residents fails standards set forth by Bruen (2022) and Rahimi (2024).

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is taking lawsuits against the Illinois “assault weapons” ban and the ban in Maryland into conference. 

On Monday, Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Gary Bashor found Washington state’s “high capacity” magazine ban violated both the U.S. Constitution and Washington state’s constitution. 

n February 7, 2024, Hawaii’s Supreme Court issued a decision saying that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen (2022) does not surpass Hawaii’s constitution, which recognizes “no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public.”

CRPA filed suit against the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, claiming it is not issuing concealed carry permits in compliance with Bruen.

On Tuesday the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found that Maryland’s Handgun Qualification License requirement violated the constitution.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed three new gun control bills, one of which expands areas where concealed carry for self-defense is banned.

During a Tuesday townhall in New Hampshire, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explained that he is not going to take guns and that the approach of trying to do so would not stop school shootings. 

A source who spoke with the New York Times said Hunter Biden’s attorneys are considering using the SCOTUS Bruen ruling to overcome any gun charges that might be brought against him.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Payne issued a decision against a prohibition of handgun sales to 18-20-year-olds, noting “the Second Amendment includes the corollary right to purchase firearms.”

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney granted a preliminary injunction Monday in which he noted that “Californians have a constitutional right to acquire and use state-of-the-art handguns to protect themselves.”

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing the codification of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 23, 2022, NYSRPA v. Bruen decision.

College students aged 18–20 are getting Texas concealed handgun permits to carry firearms for self-defense on college campuses and in businesses around the Lone Star State.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Patrick R. Wyrick dismissed an indictment against Jared Michael Harrison, holding that the statute relied upon to ban gun ownership by marijuana users is “unconstitutionally vague, in violation of the Due Process Clause, and unconstitutionally infringes upon his fundamental right to possess a firearm, in violation of the Second Amendment.”

NJ.com used an editorial Tuesday to lament the existence of the Second Amendment and suggested the U.S. would be better off if it just followed Canada’s gun banning lead.

Giffords adviser Ryan Busse claims that the Supreme Court of the United State’s Bruen (2022) decision is making it “much easier” for “a trouble 18-year-old to become a deadly mass shooter.”

U.S. District Judge David Counts, a Donald Trump appointee, ruled Monday laws barring people with felony indictments from purchasing guns do not square with the Constitution.

Overturning Roe v. Wade and declaring New York’s fascist conceal carry law unconstitutional are not only progress for the cause of human and civil rights — they will also save countless innocent lives.

New Jersey’s acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin issued a June 24, 2022, directive to “All Law Enforcement Chief Executives and County Prosecutors.”

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) spoke to Breitbart News about the Supreme Court ruling in NYSRPA v. Bruen, noting, “All this is taking place in the Supreme Court while we have Republicans in the Senate who are caving on Second Amendment rights.”

In the majority opinion for Supreme Court of the Unite States’ 6-3 ruling in NYSRPA v. Bruen, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Second Amendment protects an “individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”

Beware anti-gunners presenting history. That’s a lesson the Supreme Court justices and their clerks should remember as they read the State of New York’s brief in the big Second Amendment case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.