The Firearms Policy Coalition issued a statement in response to the Senate’s release of reconciliation language in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” – “All Members of Congress take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States…” FPC calls on Congress to fulfill that oath …”
Firearms Policy Coalition announced its strong opposition to the Department of Justice’s recently proposed merger of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The dangerous proposal would consolidate the ATF and DEA into an authoritarian “super-agency” with the combined powers to wage the failed war on drugs and enforce unconstitutional federal gun control laws against all Americans.
The FBI’s UCR Program released the "Officers Killed and Assaulted in the Line of Duty, 2024 Special Report" and data from the Law Enforcement Employee Counts on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. In 2024, 64 officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty. That is consistent with the number of officers feloniously killed the previous two years; however, the rate of assaults against officers increased from 2022 to 2024.
The Firearms Policy Coalition responded to a report that said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the top civil rights official in the Department of Justice, is “considering making gun rights a formal priority” of the Civil Rights Division. Among numerous other proposed reforms, FPC has been encouraging the White House and DOJ to create and staff a First and Second Amendment section within the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
While the gun prohibition lobby is lamenting reported reductions in staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Second Amendment Foundation is applauding the Trump administration cuts, which will hopefully take the CDC out of the gun control arena, at least for the foreseeable future.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives provided Firearms Policy Coalition with an important update regarding firearm regulations, stating that the Department of Justice and ATF would repeal and revisit several regulations and enforcement practices implemented by the Biden Administration. Three important reforms were announced.
The Firearms Policy Coalition announced priority policy reforms and urged the White House and Department of Justice to take immediate and meaningful action to safeguard and support the rights of peaceable gun owners across the country.
NSSF urges the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to heed the call by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and 29 other U.S. Senators to quickly act on President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to review and roll back unconstitutional gun control regulations and rules that were levied on the firearm industry by the previous White House administration.
The Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms join in congratulating President Donald Trump for his Executive Order Friday protecting Second Amendment Rights. President Trump’s executive order covers all actions during the period from January 2021 through January 2025 pertaining to firearms and/or federal firearms licensees.
According to a release from the FBI, an interim final rule signed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland will allow federal firearms licensees to voluntarily access records of stolen firearms in the NCIC. The rule allows FFLs to verify whether a firearm offered for sale has been reported as stolen prior to adding it to their inventory.
A new national poll on media accuracy and bias reveals a majority of Americans are concerned about accuracy and bias when it comes to national media reporting on gun violence and Second Amendment issues.
NRA-ILA Executive Director Randy Kozuch released a statement responding to the "Gun Violence Prevention" Office news from the White House. He noted that soft-on-crime policies are the real cause of the "Biden crime wave."
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the gun prohibition lobby has once again lost all credibility for not recognizing the importance of armed self-defense by private citizens, because such cases do not support their anti-gun narrative.
According to CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, the country could take a lesson from the armed protesters who turned out in Albuquerque, N.M. this week in opposition to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s unconstitutional suspension of Second Amendment rights under the guise of a “public health emergency.”
NSSF is warning New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to not attempt to enforce her Public Health Order requiring the state’s Regulation and Licensing Division to conduct monthly inspections of licensed firearm retailers to ensure compliance with all sales and storage laws, in addition to unconstitutionally banning the Second Amendment right to bear arms in public spaces.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s immediate reaction to Sunday’s triple homicide at a hookah lounge in the city’s Mount Baker area “was a predictable launch pad for an attack on Washington State’s model firearms preemption law,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
NSSF filed a legal challenge to Illinois’ unconstitutional law that seeks to muzzle firearm manufacturers’ and retailers’ First Amendment right of free commercial speech and to regulate industry members’ commercial conduct in every state of the Union. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Firearm Industry Responsibility Act into law and NSSF immediately filed its challenge.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling out anti-gun Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland for portraying Hunter Biden as a “rich guy exercising his Second Amendment rights” as an explanation for Biden’s purchase of a handgun while allegedly failing to admit his drug use on the federal Form 4473 he filled out.
The hysterical reaction by Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords lobbying group and the Brady gun control group to the recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez which declared Minnesota’s restriction on handgun permits only for those over age 21 unconstitutional is proof these organizations are interested only in banning handgun ownership by young adults, the SAF said in a release.
Gun owners in several states where Democrats control the legislative process are facing an onslaught of gun control and prohibition legislation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms condemned what appears to be the party’s war on freedom in state capitols across the country.