Today, David Codrea and Kent Terry, the brother of slain US Customs and Border Protection...
... served a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") request on the Department of State seeking, inter alia, the following information: 1. All correspondence, including electronic mail and any other documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious; 2. All authorizations and/or permits to export firearms from Operation Fast and Furious into Mexico; 3. All copies of End Use Statements signed by an appropriate Government of Mexico authority attesting as to the use and end desti
Today, the Fifth Circuit held that you do not have a Second Amendment right to a machinegun
From the Opinion: "This appeal concerns the constitutionality of a 1986 federal statute that makes possession of a “machinegun” unlawful. Jay Aubrey Isaac Hollis, as trustee of his own revocable trust, submitted an application to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to manufacture a machinegun. ATF denied his application pursuant to the 1986 statute. Hollis filed suit, challenging the constitutionality of the 1986 statute. The district court dismissed th
Today we filed a suit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regarding the
This morning we filed a lawsuit against the ATF for failing to timely respond to a FOIA for NFATCA petitions for rule-making and other correspondence and/or communications from NFATCA to the ATF. The Complaint along with supporting exhibits is attached here.
Bringing the Fight to New Jersey
Today we filed a Complaint against several defendants in Federal Court in New Jersey. Albert Almeida and Michael Tumminelli were denied permits to carry a firearm despite meeting New Jersey's high standard of "justifiable need." The Complaint is here.
Today we filed a Petition for Rehearing, en banc, in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
On May 18, 2016, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Second Amendment does not protect a machinegun, despite the Supreme Court's holding in Heller that the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all bearable arms. Today, we filed a Petition for Rehearing, en banc, for the Third Circuit to revisit the issue and cited the appropriate cases. The Petition is here.