Category: FPC Blog

Attorney Alan Gura (secured 2A rights at SCOTUS): New York 7 round ammo limit clearly unconstitutional

Alan Gura, the attorney who secured your Second Amendment rights in D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, takes on some of New York’s new unconstitutional laws:... Read More

New Jersey Second Amendment Society Joins Firearms Policy Coalition

BELLEVUE, WA (January 29, 2013) – Firearms Policy Coalition, launched on Christmas Day in 2012, is quickly becoming one of America’s largest and most influential platforms for the advocacy of Second Amendment rights. New Jersey Second Amendment Society (NJ2AS) has formed a partnership with FPC... Read More

“The problem is not gun laws,” says tearful father of 6-year-old Sandy Hook victim in testimony

A few of the comments by Mark Mattioli, father of 6 year-old Sandy Hook victim James Mattioli: “The problem is not gun laws, the problem is a lack of civility.” “I want responsible legislation. It needs to be simple and it needs to be enforced. We... Read More

Have you seen the trailer for ‘Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire’ yet? (It’s here!)

If not, you need to. It’s really, really good. Kris Koenig, Emmy® award winning producer and writer, announced today the launch of the trailer for Dead Patriot Films’ Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, the first in a series of documentaries focused on gun issues in... Read More

Project Veritas takes on The Journal News

This rather amusing video shows Project Veritas (run by James O’Keefe) journalists undercover, posing as members of “Citizens Against Senseless Violence”, asking members of the media and government – including Attorney General Eric Holder – to be proudly gun-free. Says PV on its website, In the... Read More

California Senator Leland Yee’s SB 47 (new ‘Assault Weapons’ ban) and SB 108 (mandatory safe storage) are out

California State Senator Leland Yee (D – San Mateo) has already put one spot bill, SB 47 (the forthcoming ‘Assault Weapon’ / “bullet button” ban) over the desk in Sacramento. It appears that SB 108, a bill mandating ‘safe storage’ for all firearms and imposing... Read More

New York Sen. Greg Ball: Burglar used newspaper’s interactive gun owner map to target home

Just as we predicted, The News Journal’s egregious violation of journalistic integrity and privacy has apparently caused one New York home to be targeted for a robbery. State Senator Greg Ball has published this press release in response: Brewster, N.Y. – 1/13/2013 – Today Senator... Read More

Attorney Alan Gura Comments on Second Amendment Rights

Gura’s ~10 minute segment of CATO’s panel discussion “Living with Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment.” Here’s the full ~90 minute panel discussion courtesy of CATO:... Read More

Let’s be clear: anti-gun extremists *hate you* (Gawker: “Here Is a List of All the [Assholes] Handsome Law-Abiding Citizens Who Own Guns in New York City”)

Let’s be clear here: people like Gawker editor John Cook (Twitter: @johnjcook, email: [email protected]) and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg don’t want “reasonable” anything. They flat-out hate you. Not ‘hate you’ like a shunned thirteen-year-old in a lunchroom breakup, but ‘hate you’ as in willing to put... Read More

Victorious McDonald v. Chicago plaintiff challenges Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera to debate

Many Americans are by now aware of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic 2010 decision of McDonald, et al. v. City of Chicago, et al. and it’s application (incorporation) to state and local governments of the Second Amendment’s protections against government infringement of fundamental rights. The individual... Read More