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Firearms Policy Coalition (firearmspolicy.org), a 501(c)4 nonprofit membership organization, exists to create a world of maximal human liberty, defend constitutional rights, advance individual liberty, and restore freedom. Our efforts are currently focused on the right to keep and bear arms and adjacent issues including freedom of speech, due process, unlawful searches and seizures, separation of powers, asset forfeitures, privacy, encryption, and limited government. We work to achieve our strategic objectives through litigation, research, scholarly publications, amicus briefing, legislative and regulatory action, grassroots activism, education, outreach, and other programs. We typically have members and supporters in all 50 U.S. States and the District of Columbia. Our FPC Law program (FPCLaw.org) is the nation’s preeminent legal action initiative focused on restoring the right to keep and bear arms throughout the United States. Individuals who want to support FPC’s work to eliminate unconstitutional laws can join the FPC Grassroots Army at JoinFPC.org or make a donation at firearmspolicy.org/donate. For more on FPC’s lawsuits and other pro-Second Amendment initiatives, visit FPCLegal.org and follow FPC on Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, YouTube.

WHY DO WE EXIST? (OUR PURPOSE)

  • MAXIMAL LIBERTY: We exist to create a world of maximal liberty and end government coercion that separates peaceable people from their life, liberty, and property.

HOW DO WE CONDUCT OURSELVES? (OUR VALUES)

  • PRINCIPLED: We stay true to our Core Beliefs.
  • DISCERNING: We debate to determine the best ideas.
  • INNOVATIVE: We explore, try things, and learn.
  • RESILIENT: We are tenacious and gritty.

WHAT DO WE DO? (OUR AREAS OF FOCUS)

  • We expand liberty through:
    • LEGAL ACTION: Using legal action to eliminate immoral laws.
    • ACTIVISM: Grassroots and direct activism to support pro-liberty issues.
    • CULTURE: Growing an engaged community of natural rights proponents. 
    • SUPPORT: Providing resources to those aligned with our mission.

WHAT ARE WE WORKING TO ACHIEVE RIGHT NOW? (OUR CURRENT MISSION)

  • Objective: Restore the essential right to keep and bear arms in the United States.
  • Target Achievement: On or before Dec. 31, 2032, or as soon as achievable.
  • Key Tasks: To achieve our Current Mission, we must
    • Eliminate bans on the acquisition, possession, moral use, and disposition of firearms and parts necessary to an essential scope and capability of the right to keep and bear arms (i.e., fully featured semi-automatic firearms, magazines that hold more than 10 rounds).
    • Eliminate prohibitions on the times, places, and manners of bearing arms in non-sensitive public places.
    • Eliminate prohibitions on the personal manufacture of common categories of firearms.
    • Eliminate prohibitions on access to and exercise of the right to keep and bear arms with respect to non-dangerous adult legal residents and citizens of the United States aged 18 and older.
  • End State: All adult legal residents and citizens of the United States who are not prohibited under constitutionally sound, historically supported factors following adjudication can, if they choose, (1) acquire, possess, self-manufacture, morally use, and dispose of or transfer to another such person common arms (including but not limited to semi-automatic firearms with standard magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition), and (2) bear leaded, operable firearms for self-defense and other moral purposes in non-sensitive public places, without fear or risk of arrest, prosecution, or state persecution.
  • Building Towards: Our vision and expanded mission of restoring the full right to keep and bear arms and adjacent liberties in the United States and throughout the world.

WHAT DO WE BELIEVE? (OUR CORE BELIEFS)

  • We believe that the People’s access to and exercise of natural rights, including that to personal property, are necessary to achieve and maintain a free world. To that end:
    • We believe that all people have natural rights and are inherently entitled to life, liberty, and property, all of which are necessary to human flourishing.
    • We believe that natural rights are not granted by governments, a byproduct of majority consensus or majoritarian process, or mere privileges conferred by any government, group, or creation of man. 
    • We believe that natural rights include but are not limited to the rights to self-defense and use of just force against unjust force; acquiring, possessing, training with, carrying, and using arms for moral and just purposes; free speech; association; protest; privacy; due process; equal protection of the laws; private property; and free markets.
    • We believe that how a government or society regulates the right to keep and bear arms is a strong and likely leading indicator of how that government or society does or will approach regulation of other natural rights and personal property.
    • We believe that well-armed people make tyranny at scale significantly more costly.
    • We believe that liberty is correlated with access to innovation and technology, including but not limited to that of arms, speech, and encryption.
    • We believe that it is immoral to unjustly use force to take the life, liberty, or property of others.
    • We believe that we must eliminate coercion and immoral laws, policies, regulations, customs, and enforcement practices in order to fulfill our Purpose.

OUR ETHIC

  • Our Firearms Policy Ethic is the heart of our organization and shared identity. It guides and motivates our actions consistent with our core beliefs and values. 
  • We are honorable servants of the cause of liberty and human flourishing and faithful stewards of the people, resources, and liberties entrusted to our care.
  • We are morally committed to our just cause. This duty requires a foundation of trust with the people we serve, reinforced as we contribute honorable service, expertise, and stewardship with courageous esprit de corps. 
  • Within our profession, we earn and sustain trust by demonstrating character, competence, and commitment to each other and the people we serve.
  • We make right decisions and take right actions that are ethical, effective, and efficient.