Category: FPC in the Media

Great coverage of our lawsuit against Annapolis, Maryland! Via Guns.com: An Maryland man is taking Annapolis officials to federal court over their stun gun prohibition, arguing the city’s ban on the devices is in violation of his Second Amendment rights. The suit, filed in U.S. District... Read More

Coverage of our lawsuit challenging New York’s ban on Tasers and other electronic stun guns. Via Syracuse.com: A federal lawsuit is challenging New York’s ban on Tasers and other stun guns, one of the few such remaining laws nationwide. In New York state, it’s a... Read More

The Firearms Policy Coalition sued as they had retained two Emmy-award winning filmmakers, Kris Koenig and Stephen Chollet, who wanted to use footage of the otherwise public debate between lawmakers in videos and political advertisements for the gun rights group but are unable to for... Read More

AB 450 is McCarty’s most recent attempt to jump on the ‘gut-and-amend everything into a gun bill’ bandwagon,” Craig J. DeLuz, director of communications with the Firearms Policy Coalition, told Guns. com. “In this bill he has managed to create an almost illegible and legally... Read More

“We are not against research at all, but research has to be objective,” DeLuz said. “Treating firearms or firearm violence like a disease is completely wrong because it removes the component of human behavior.”... Read More

The state Senate passed nearly a dozen gun-control bills Thursday, saying the package of legislation is the most ambitious action ever taken to protect communities from gun violence. Crafted in response to the mass shooting in San Bernardino in December, the 11 bills add to... Read More

Democrats in the California Senate made another attempt Thursday to outlaw the sale of assault weapons with easily detachable magazines as part of a wide-ranging slate of gun control bills they approved. Lawmakers also voted to require that people turn in magazines capable of holding... Read More

Two of the most powerful politicians in California are advancing the same basic gun control agenda – yet they are at loggerheads in a political duel that could preview an ugly race to replace the state’s popular Democratic governor, Jerry Brown. The spat among ambitious... Read More

The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) warns that anti-gun lawmakers will be relentless in their legislative assault, as they want to secure success for their favorite gun control proposals before Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has a chance to step in and upstage them via his... Read More

Assemblyman James Gallagher, R-Plumas Lake, received a grade of A+ from the Firearms Policy Coalition for his voting record that supports gun rights during the 2015 legislative session. Gallagher is only one of two Assemblymembers to receive a perfect score. “I am extremely honored to... Read More