This is the second post in a series of six by Jonathan Goldstein adapting a set of administrative comment letters submitted in response to recent ATF rulemakings. The posts are designed to make the central legal and policy arguments more accessible to a broader audience...
Read MoreKostas is Director of Legal Research and Education for the Second Amendment Foundation. This week, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Gardner v. Maryland, a case concerning a woman who was arrested for carrying a firearm in Maryland without a license. She used it to...
Read MoreThis is the second of two posts in a micro-series on public carry at protests. Each post is by an FRC Fellow. It frequently takes a tragic incident to shine a spotlight on an important, neglected issue. That is the case with the shooting...
Read MoreThis is the first of two posts in a micro-series on public carry at protests. Each post is by an FRC Fellow. In January 2026, the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis sent a tremor through both sides of the American political divide. Pretti, a...
Read MoreA new Working Paper by K. Alexander Adams entitled A State-by-State Analysis of Concealed Carry Permit Revocations is available. Alexander is a Firearms Research Center Fellow. The paper’s abstract reads: A large number of dueling articles have been published claiming concealed carry weapons (CCW) laws...
Read MoreAs part of their massive resistance to Bruen, five of the six directly impacted states took the extraordinary measure of presumptively banning firearms on all or nearly all private property. These states are New York, New Jersey, Maryland, California and Hawaii. I have written here...
Read MoreA importance of a preliminary paper published by Doucette et al. (2022) studying the potential effects of permitless carry laws on officer involved shootings should not be understated: the rate at which states have adopted permitless carry laws is nothing short of astounding. To date,...
Read MoreYesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted, vacated, and remanded for reconsideration in light of United States v. Rahimi eight Second Amendment decisions pending writs of certiorari. All but one of the cases have to do with persons prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law. Five...
Read MoreIn March of 2024, Governor Henry McMaster signed legislation into law that made South Carolina the 29th state in the nation to adopt Permitless Carry (also known as “constitutional carry”), which allows qualified, law-abiding citizens to possess a firearm without a weapons permit. After Louisiana’s...
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