CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Circuit Court Strikes Down New York’s Post-Bruen Vampire Rule Carry Ban.
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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: After Suing Denver Over AWB, DOJ Sues State of Colorado Over ‘High Cap’ Magazine Ban.
The funny thing is, I know at least one local range that sells verboten “high capacity” magazines, and a former employee told me that LEOs were big buyers of them.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: DOJ Sues City of Denver Calling its ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban an Unconstitutional Infringement on 2A Rights.
I love this woman:
Just sued Denver. How’s your day going? https://t.co/dkPOk1d8hx
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) May 5, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:
Too many MAGA people moan about what they are not seeing done while ignoring the incredible wealth of good news in their midst.
I’ll give you just one example.
Did you know that the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has created a “Second Amendment Section,” designed to protect the…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 6, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Change: Acting AG Todd Blanche Lays Out Second Amendment Realignment at DOJ. “In a wide-ranging conversation with nationally-syndicated talk radio host, Tom Gresham, Blanche touched on upcoming regulatory changes, a reshaping of ATF enforcement priorities, active Supreme Court litigation, and a deliberate strategy to embed Second Amendment protections so deeply into federal regulatory infrastructure that future administrations would struggle to reverse them.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: America’s Most Conservative State Just Gave Property Owners The Right To Shoot Invaders. It’s Tennessee.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Final Rule Drives a Stake Through Anti-Gun Left’s De-Banking Strategy.
Ultimately, this final rule eliminates reputation risk as a means of injecting politics into banking regulation by prohibiting examiners from using this subjective assessment to pressure or penalize banks. It also prohibits regulators from pushing banks to close accounts or deny services based on their ill-conceived aversion to the lawful firearms and ammunition industries, which are vital to supporting our constitutional rights.
This rule helps to mitigate unjustified biases against these business sectors left over from the Obama-Biden Administration and importantly helps to prevent future efforts in the same vein. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with regulators such as the FDIC, began pressuring banks to cut ties and services to industries they considered to be “high risk,” which under the anti-gun Obama-Biden administration unsurprisingly included firearm and ammunition-related business.re
The program, billed Operation Choke Point, encouraged broad financial “de-risking” and led to banks freezing or terminating services to lawful businesses based on “reputation risk,” instead of any proven misconduct or illegality. Guidance documents provided to banks at the time specifically listed firearm and ammunition sales as high-risk activity, although they are some of the most highly regulated industries in the country.
More like this, please.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gun Group Fighting Back Against Colorado Measure Regulating Gun Barrel Purchases.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: New York’s New Budget Will Mandate 3D Printer Gun File Censorware.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Now Comes the Gun-Grab: Rhode Island Dems Go for Full-On Confiscation. “At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing, lawmakers pushed 18 gun control bills in a single slate. The package goes well beyond sales restrictions. It includes legislation aimed at unconstitutionally dismantling the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act through so-called ‘public nuisance’ liability schemes, along with gun rationing, ammunition background checks, mandatory training requirements and liability insurance mandates.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Collateral Damage: States’ 3D Printed Gun Code Bans Squelch Innovation, Research, Speech. “The rapid expansion of regulations targeting 3D printed firearms is increasingly raising justifiable concerns apart from the Second Amendment community. As lawmakers venture beyond tradition gun control efforts into the realm of limiting digital code and hardware functionality, the collateral impact on others, including across various facets of computer culture, is obviously being felt. Case in point: World of Software’s April 7 article: Lawmakers want to restrict 3D printing to stop ghost guns. Critics say it won’t work, which notes, ‘the discomfort reaches beyond the right to bear arms.'”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: States consider expanding campus carry laws, reigniting college gun debate.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Why Doesn’t Andy Beshear Think Young Adults Deserve to Exercise All of Their Civil Rights? “’While he claims to be a ‘different kind of Democrat,’ Gov. Beshear has revealed himself to be just one more anti-gun-rights politician adhering to the party’s increasingly far-left dogma,’ said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. ‘He has shown his true colors by preventing a provisional license for 18- to 20-year-olds to carry a concealed handgun in public, amounting to a direct attack on young women, especially young women of color, who are frequently in need of protection. The late, great First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was one of the first women in New York State to have a full carry license, is probably spinning in her grave.'”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Illinois gun owners plan rally in wake of Supreme Court order.
The Illinois State Rifle Association says gun owners have run out of options in a case challenging the state’s prohibition of carrying concealed firearms on mass transit.
The case Schoenthal v. Raoul dealt with whether the state’s ban of carrying firearms on mass transit, even for those with concealed carry permits, is constitutional.
A district judge said the measure is unconstitutional. An appeals court differed. The U.S. Supreme Court Monday turned down a petition to hear the case.
“We are very disappointed by the Court’s decision, especially since law-abiding public transportation riders in Illinois are less safe as a result of the law,” attorney David Sigale, who represents plaintiffs, told the The Center Square. “We know that groups like the ISRA will continue to fight this prohibition in the legislative and political arenas, as well as the courts, so that Illinoisans’ Second Amendment rights will be respected.”
Richard Pearson with the ISRA said they’ve run out of options for that challenge. But, there are other cases the Supreme Court could take up.
“They have the Wolford [v. Lopez] case in front of them, which is from Hawaii, which is about public spaces and actually public transportation. So we’ll see what they do with that,” Pearson told The Center Square Monday. “So we were kind of hoping for a favorable ruling, at least to take our case. And that didn’t happen.”
Certainly disappointing.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Anti-Gun Swamp Creature Uses SAVE Act to Outlaw Private Gun Sales, Create a Universal Federal Paper Trail. “Coons’ Amendment 4655 would effectively outlaw nearly all private firearm sales and transfers in the United States. Under this proposal, you would no longer be free to sell, gift, or transfer a firearm to another law-abiding citizen without federal government involvement.”
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Another win for the Constitution: California’s illegal gun control law got struck down, and the state must pay the NRA nearly $500K in attorney fees.
Rights defended. Tyranny defeated. Freedom celebrated. 🇺🇸
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— NRA (@NRA) March 23, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: It Appears the Supreme Court is Likely to Let Marijuana Users Own Guns. “It appears more likely than not that Hemani will prevail and that most marijuana users will gain the right to own a gun, even if the justices still cannot figure out what to do with Bruen.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Anti-Gunners’ Latest PLCAA Workaround: Blue States Enacting Onerous ‘Firearm Industry Responsibility’ Laws.
Anti-gun activists think they have figured out a way around the Second Amendment, democratic accountability, and the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act to impose a limitless raft of gun control on the American people.
The strategy is to enact what civilian disarmament advocates term “firearm industry responsibility” laws in anti-gun states. These laws impose a duty on members of the firearms industry to institute “reasonable controls” over the sale and distribution of their products, on top of the mountains of explicit state and federal statutes and regulations they are tasked to comply with, lest they face ruinous civil liability.
The term “reasonable controls” is vague and ill-defined, resulting in the decidedly unreasonable circumstance where gun industry members can’t know how to comply with the law. These statutes empower anti-gun government officials to abuse the vague language in a manner that imposes ever-expanding restrictions on the industry and its customers, limited only by the officials’ imagination.
Moreover, this legislation impacts not just firearms dealers, manufacturers, and distributors as they would be understood under federal law, but includes any business involved in the stream of commerce for ammunition or any other firearm-related products.
The goal is to use the threat of devastating civil liability to force the firearms industry to restrict their rights and those of their customers by instituting gun controls that were not enacted (and often rejected) through the democratic process and may be found unconstitutional if imposed directly by government. The entire enterprise is a grotesque and cynical evasion of democratic accountability and constitutional review.
So far, 10 states have enacted versions of this legislation, with extremist gun control advocates in Virginia also seeking to enact a variant (HB21) at present.
Read the whole thing.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: The Supreme Court’s Decade of Dithering on Hardware Cases Comes at a High Cost to Gun Owners.
So many more people have had their right to bear arms stripped from them since the Supreme Court denied cert in the first wave of “assault weapon” cases back in 2015 over the dissent of Justices Scalia and Thomas. A lot more states have since passed various bans.
People don’t live forever while the Court dilly dallies. Waiting more than a decade to decide these issues has a real cost to people’s liberties. People like Sam Paredes spent decades fighting for their rights in antigun states like California, only to pass away before the Court could be bothered to take up their case. It’s enraging just how much their neglect has hurt us.
Maybe there was nothing SCOTUS could do back in 2015 with a 5-4 court with a squish like Justice Kennedy who didn’t want to go any further than Heller did. But now, since 2020, the votes are either there or it’s time we find out if Roberts and Barrett are going to stab (shoot?) us in the back.
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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: It Was Inevitable: Virginia Bill to Ban and Confiscate ‘High Capacity’ Magazines Advances.
On January 27, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee advanced a substitute version of SB749, banning commonly-owned firearms and their magazines. This substitute version defines a “large capacity ammunition feeding device” to include standard capacity magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The bill then provides,
B. Any person who imports, sells, barters, transfers, purchases, or possesses a large capacity ammunition feeding device is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
The legislation doesn’t grandfather magazines possessed prior to the ban. The legislation is magazine confiscation, as current owners would be forced to dispossess themselves of their lawfully acquired property or face a Class 1 misdemeanor. A Class 1 misdemeanor is punishable by up to a year in prison and up to a $2,500 fine.
I’d add a “gooder and harder,” but by and large, the people who voted for this are not the ones who will suffer under it.
But that’s just how Dems wield power.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: CA ended non-resident carry ban, now will pay challengers’ lawyers $128K.
The deal comes four months after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a new gun law, known as AB 1078, which explicitly granted non-Californians the right to apply for a license to conceal and carry firearms in California, formally ending a longstanding ban.
However, the passage of that law only came after Bonta spent nearly two years in court attempting to defend the ban against legal challenges – a defense that continued up until the moment California lawmakers formally changed the law.
Those challenges were launched in 2023 by a coalition of Second Amendment rights groups and other organizations representing gun owners in California and elsewhere in the U.S.
Winning.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Harvard-backed program drops ‘students of color’ requirement after legal complaint.