Firearms News

NEW ORLEANS (September 12, 2025) – Attorneys for George Peterson this week filed a petition for full-court rehearing with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. Peterson, a Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC)-backed challenge to the federal government’s unconstitutional National Firearms Act (NFA) tax and registration requirements for suppressors, the organization announced. Continue reading...

PHILADELPHIA (September 10, 2025) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement today regarding a decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeal in an interlocutory appeal from FPC’s preliminary injunction against New Jersey’s post-Bruen legislation to ban firearm carry in public: Continue reading...

LAS VEGAS (September 5, 2025) — Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement regarding recent media reports suggesting that Department of Justice (DOJ) officials may be considering policies to restrict the right of entire classes of people to keep and bear arms: Continue reading...

BOSTON (August 29, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) condemned a decision by Chief United States District Judge Denise J. Casper that upheld Massachusetts’s ban on modern, constitutionally protected handguns and granted summary judgment to the state. Continue reading...

Since 2023, CRPA has been fighting back against the Catalina Conservancy (and others), and the proposal to viciously slaughter the mule deer population on Catalina Island. The original plan called for helicopters to fly over the island with high-powered rifles to thin the mule deer population in an attempt to rebalance the ecosystem. This despite the legitimate question as to whether the species is even responsible for the imbalance to begin with. Now the plan is to use ground-based...

Four anti-2A bills remain pending on Governor Gavin Newsom’ desk and CRPA continues pressing for a veto. That’s always a tough row to hoe, as as Newsom’s administration works hand in hand with the legislature to craft the bills that end up on his desk, particularly where new gun restrictions are on the table. But as Newsom eyes a run at the Presidency in 2028, he’s been recasting himself as a moderate. Signing facially unconstitutional gun control laws fights against the Gov’s new persona...

By now, you’ve probably heard the HUGE 2A news of the day: The federal Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department alleging that its CCW process “deprives people of rights secured and protected by the Constitution.” CRPA, along side our friends at Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners of California, and the Second Amendment Foundation, blazed this trail with our own lawsuit against the LA Sheriff back in 2023. Information discovered in that lawsuit helped...

The long-standing battle for CCW rights in California just added a HUGE new ally: The Trump Administration. Today, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the federal Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the LA County Sheriff’s Department alleging the Department’s CCW application process violates the rights of lawful citizens. Read the full complaint here. “CRPA and our allies blazed a trail over the past three years, going county-by-county across California to ensure...

Illinois is trying to outpace California and New York in anti–Second Amendment legislation. In 2023, the state passed HB 5471, often referred to as the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA), banning semi-automatic rifles, common handguns, and nearly half of all magazines in the U.S. Second Amendment defenders in Illinois rose to the challenge, resulting in a series of cases consolidated under Barnett v. Raoul, which are being argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals as of the...

CRPA has been working county by county ever since the Bruen decision hit the streets. County by county and, in some cases, city by city, we’ve provided guidance on how CCW’s work now under the new standard. But as we know…some just don’t care to learn (or care much for the Constitution). Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, to name just a few, all needed help to see the light. As reported yesterday, Santa Clara became the latest holdout to face a lawsuit. On the latest installment of CRPA...