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DOJ Sues Denver Over Semi-Automatic Ban by Mark Chesnut

The city of Denver has infringed upon the rights of its citizens for decades by banning the ownership of common, constitutionally protected semi-automatic rifles. Now, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking the city to task over the infringement.

Passed back in 1989, the ordinance makes it illegal to carry, store, keep, manufacture, sell, or otherwise possess what it calls “assault weapons” in the city. On May 5, the DOJ filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado seeking to have the ban ruled unconstitutional and stricken from the books.

“The Constitution is not a suggestion and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a news release announcing the action. “Denver’s ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the liberties of law-abiding citizens nationwide.”

In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark decision District of Columbia v. Heller, held that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess weapons that are in common use for lawful purposes. In the complaint, the DOJ argues that Denver’s law directly violates that critical aspect of the ruling.

“In reality, the firearms the City calls ‘assault weapons’ include ordinary semi-automatic rifles possessed by millions of law-abiding Americans,” the complaint explains. “Indeed, Americans own literally tens of millions of AR-15 style rifles, the paradigmatic ‘assault weapon’ covered by the Ordinance. As the Supreme Court has recently recognized, the AR-15 is the most popular rifle in America.

 

When the City banned AR-15 style rifles with standard capacity magazines, it banned an arm in common use for lawful purposes by law-abiding citizens. Therefore, the Ordinance violates the Second Amendment, and the United States brings this action to vindicate the rights of Denver citizens whose rights have been—and are continuing to be—violated by Defendants.”

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division,  said her office stands ready to fight this ordinance and any unconstitutional gun laws throughout the nation.

“I have directed the Civil Rights Division, through our new Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding Americans from restrictions such as those we are challenging in these cases,” Dhillon said.

 

“Law-abiding Americans, regardless of what city or state they reside in, should not have to live under threat of criminal sanction just for exercising their Second Amendment right to possess arms which are owned by tens of millions of their fellow citizens.”

Ultimately, the DOJ is asking the court to declare the law unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, enjoin defendants and their agents from enforcing the ordinance to the extent it bans the possession of AR-15-style rifles with standard-capacity magazines, and “such other and additional relief as the interests of justice may require.”

 

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After Nine Months in Limbo, North Carolina’s Constitutional Carry Override May Finally Get a Floor Vote by Scott Witner

Man carrying concealed handgun with the north carolina flag on his belt.

If you’ve been following the saga of North Carolina’s Senate Bill 50 — the “Freedom to Carry NC” Act — you know the drill by now. The bill passes the Senate. The bill passes the House. The Democratic governor vetoes it. The Senate overrides. And then the House does… nothing. For months. For nearly a year.

That may finally be changing.

According to comments made by Grass Roots North Carolina President Paul Valone to ABC11 on April 28, North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall now sees “a path forward” for bringing SB50 to the House floor for an override vote. After more than a dozen instances of the bill being placed on the House calendar and quietly withdrawn since last summer, that’s the closest thing to actual movement the override fight has had since the Senate did its job back on July 29, 2025.

If — and at this point it’s still an “if” — the House finds the votes, North Carolina becomes the 30th state to recognize that exercising a constitutional right doesn’t require permission from the state.

The Quick Recap for Anyone Not Already Tired of This Story

SB50 was filed in February 2025. It would let any law-abiding North Carolinian who can legally own a firearm and is at least 18 years old carry concealed without first paying for a permit. It does not change who can legally possess a firearm. Felons, fugitives, prohibited persons, and anyone else barred under federal or state law remains barred. The existing concealed handgun permit system stays in place for anyone who wants one for reciprocity in other states or to streamline future firearm purchases.

The Senate passed it. The House passed it 59-48 on June 11, 2025. Governor Josh Stein vetoed it on June 20, trotting out the same tired script every Democratic governor uses for this kind of bill — “training requirements,” “lowered minimum age,” “endangering law enforcement” — none of which has any meaningful evidence behind it from the 29 states already operating under permitless carry. The Senate overrode the veto by a 30-19 vote on July 29.

And then the House sat on it.

Why It Has Lasted This Long

North Carolina requires a three-fifths majority of the chamber to override a gubernatorial veto. House Republicans have a comfortable majority on paper, but two Republicans — Rep. Ted Davis (New Hanover) and Rep. William Brisson (Bladen and Sampson Counties) — voted against SB50 on the original second reading. Ten others abstained.

To override, leadership needs every other Republican plus enough additional votes to clear three-fifths. Placing the bill on the calendar without locked-in commitments risks losing the override and killing the bill outright. Withdrawing it preserves the option. So leadership keeps shuffling it on and off the calendar while the whip count grinds forward — a process that’s now stretched across multiple delays since February and that has, understandably, frustrated North Carolina gun owners who were promised this bill would get across the line.

Speaker Hall’s “path forward” comment is the first time in a long time anyone in House leadership has signaled the votes might actually be there.

The Opposition Doesn’t Need a Path Forward — They Just Need One Republican

The usual suspects are organizing hard against the override. North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action, Giffords, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions held an event in Raleigh on April 28 specifically focused on running out the clock on the House override. Their case rests entirely on two arguments: SB50 eliminates the mandatory training requirement, and it lowers the carry age from 21 to 18.

Both arguments collapse under the slightest pressure.

On the training requirement: as Valone bluntly put it, “What other constitutionally guaranteed freedom are you required to seek mandatory training for?” You don’t need a state-issued certificate to vote, to publish, to attend a religious service, or to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. You don’t even need one to drive on private property. Mandatory training as a precondition for carry is a permission slip dressed up as a public safety measure, and it functions exactly like the literacy tests and poll taxes of an earlier era — the right itself is technically intact, but exercising it is gated behind a fee, a paperwork process, and the discretion of a bureaucrat.

On the age question: 18-year-olds can join the military and be handed an M4. They can be sent overseas and authorized to use deadly force on behalf of the U.S. government. Telling that same 18-year-old he can’t carry a concealed handgun for personal defense at home without first paying $80 and sitting through a four-hour state-approved class is — at best — an unprincipled position.

And on the public safety claim writ large: 29 states have already done this. The data from those states does not show the bloodbath gun control groups predict every single time. Same warnings. Same headlines. Same outcome. None of it materializes.

What Happens Next

If the House overrides Stein’s veto, North Carolina joins the 60% of states that have moved past the permission-slip era of concealed carry. North Carolinians who want a permit for reciprocity or for the streamlined firearm purchase process can still get one. The training and education infrastructure doesn’t disappear — anyone who wants instruction can still seek it, voluntarily, the way reasonable adults do for everything else in their lives.

If the override fails, gun owners in the Tar Heel State continue navigating a permitting system that 29 other states have already determined is constitutionally and practically unjustifiable. The fight doesn’t end — it just resets to the next session.

For now, every North Carolinian who supports SB50 should be on the phone with their state representative this week. Calls and personalized emails carry weight; form letters do not. If your representative is one of the two Republicans who voted no on second reading, or one of the ten who abstained, that contact matters even more. You can find your representative at ncleg.gov.

This is the closest constitutional carry has been to crossing the finish line in North Carolina. After nine months of procedural limbo, that’s worth getting fired up about — and worth getting on the phone about.

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THE FACTS ABOUT NEW YORK’S AMMUNITION LAW By WILL DABBS, MD

I was born in 1966 and grew up in the Mississippi Delta. When I was a kid I bought most of my ammo at Magic Mart, a now-defunct chain department store once common across the Deep South. I just dropped by after school to pick up .22 shells as the need arose. The old guy behind the counter would drag out a spiral-bound notebook and dutifully log the type of rounds and quantity I was purchasing along with the identifying information from my driver’s license. The process was tedious, but our interactions were always cordial.

As much of the country moves toward placing fewer unfair burdens on the lawful ownership of firearms, the state of New York seems to be bent on suppressing Second Amendment freedoms.

I recall once asking him what was done with that information. He said nothing. He wrote it all down because that was the law, but nobody ever looked at it.

Now just imagine how many times that exchange took place every day in America. Logging ammo sales began with the Gun Control Act of 1968 and, in most places, ended with the curiously titled Firearms Owners’ Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986. Here’s the 1968 verbiage, “It shall be unlawful for any licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector to sell or deliver…any firearm or ammunition to any person unless the licensee notes in his records…the name, age, and place of residence of such person…”

Both ammunition and magazines are heavily regulated in New York — something that disproportionately impacts lawful citizens and not criminals.

Untold billions of transactions were dutifully logged from sea to shining sea. Countless innocent trees gave their lives. Thousands of aggregate man hours were expended, and for what? While the FOPA did indeed streamline the sale of ammunition, it also outlawed the further manufacture of select-fire firearms for sale to civilians.

That is a tale for another day. However, in the lead-up to the FOPA, I read that there had not been a single documented crime solved as a result of all those ammo records. Not one. Now fast forward 38 years to the Empire State, and history seems to be repeating itself.

Comparative Taxonomy

Comparing gun ownership in my native Mississippi against that of New York is like contrasting two entirely different planets. As a free man in a free state I find it all kind of tough to comprehend. We should all fall under the same U.S. Constitution, yet my brethren in New York just don’t perceive the words the same way we do down here.

Even common rifle ammunition for target shooting, competition and hunting are weighed down with draconian restrictions.

Mine is a constitutional carry state. Fully half the states in the Union now allow some form of permitless concealed carry of a firearm for personal protection. By contrast, up until recently it was essentially impossible to obtain a concealed carry permit in New York unless you were independently wealthy or politically connected. All that should have changed with the recent NY State Rifle and Pistol Association Supreme Court Ruling. Only it didn’t.

In response to the landmark SCOTUS ruling, the New York legislature went into special session and passed an emergency bill specifically intended to drastically limit the freedoms implicit in the new SCOTUS ruling. While New York must indeed now issue concealed carry licenses more liberally, the hurdles one must clear to obtain such a license are yet more draconian.

In addition, per the new legislation, most everywhere in New York is considered a prohibited place where concealed carry is still not allowed. Specifically, private businesses must specifically post that concealed carry is allowed, otherwise it is presumptively illegal. It’s all honestly fairly sad. Amidst all the new whirlwind gun restrictions, the New York state government also now demands a background check on all ammunition sales. Records of these transactions must also be maintained by the state. Here we go again.

Do You Need a Permit to Buy Ammunition in NY?

Yes. The state of New York requires a license for ammo sales.

Here are the high points of the “Ammunition Records Requirement” — “There shall be a statewide license and record database specific for ammunition sales which shall be created and maintained by the division of state police…the licensee or seller contacts the statewide license and record database and provides the database with information sufficient to identify such…transferee…as well as the amount, caliber, manufacturer’s name and serial number, if any, of such ammunition…

New York requires a license to purchase consumable ammo for your firearm.

“Any seller of ammunition or dealer in firearms shall keep…an electronic record…In the record [book] shall be entered at the time of every transaction involving ammunition the date, name, age, occupation and residence of any person from whom ammunition is received or to whom ammunition is delivered, and the amount, calibre (sic), manufacturer’s name and serial number…

“If the superintendent of state police certifies that background checks of ammunition purchasers may be conducted through the national instant criminal background check system…use of that system by a dealer or seller shall be sufficient…provided that a record of such transaction shall be forwarded to the state police in a form determined by the superintendent.”

Condensed Version

Legalese is by its nature obfuscating. However, as near as I can tell from researching a wide variety of sources, to my reading it’s illegal in New York to possess ammunition unless it fits a specific weapon registered to you. Under the new law purchasers of ammunition must undergo a background check essentially identical to that required to purchase a firearm. Each and every ammunition purchase must also be dutifully logged and reported to the state. State agencies will then maintain a centralized database of ammunition along with to whom it was sold.

Own a rifle in New York? You cannot, under state law, have ammo mailed to you. This artificially drives up the prices paid by gun owners.

Considering that ammunition is by definition consumable, it’s curious to imagine what this database will look like a decade from now. Fairly cumbersome would be my guess, but I doubt the New York state legislators gave that much thought. By contrast, down here in Mississippi when I run short I order ammo by the case online and have it shipped to my doorstep.

Poring over the details of these new laws I was struck by the pervasive use of terms like license, background check, restrictions and database. Personally, I don’t want the government keeping an inventory of the weapons and ammunition I maintain in my home. I don’t think it’s a particular logic leap to say the founding fathers wouldn’t want the government doing that, either.

I will admit that I take my ammo for granted. If I need a little I can pick it up cash and carry from any number of sources here in town. If I need a lot, it’s just a few clicks away online. I look at my brethren in New York and feel the same pathos I might feel toward those unfortunates trapped in North Korea, Syria or Iran. For those of us fortunate enough not to live behind New York’s new Iron Curtain made of lead, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

WILL DABBS, MD

Will was raised in the Mississippi Delta and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After eight years flying Army helicopters, he left the military as a Major to attend medical school. Will operates an Urgent Care clinic in his small Southern town and works as the plant physician for the local Winchester ammunition plant. He is married to his high school sweetheart, has three adult children, and has written for the gun press for a quarter century.

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Vermont Lawmakers Pushing Dangerous Gun Measures As Legislative Session Winds Down by Mark Chesnut

While the Firearms Policy Coalition’s (FPC’s) recently released State Freedom Index gave the state of Vermont an 81.2% grade, some lawmakers in the Green Mountain State are trying to push that ranking down significantly.

The legislative session in Vermont is quickly winding down, but that’s not stopping anti-gun lawmakers from trying to pass several serious infringements on the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners in the state. According to a legislative alert from the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), anti-gun Democrats in Vermont are pushing two omnibus gun bills in an attempt to pass them before the legislature adjourns.

“Last week, Senate Democrats called an emergency meeting of the Rules Committee to suspend the rules in order to introduce S.329, an omnibus gun bill, to join H.606, which is currently pending before the Senate,” the alert stated.

“Earlier in the session, H.606 was heavily amended to remove many of the problematic sections, which NRA has continued to actively oppose. S.329 is a step backward, contemplating many of the previously removed sections and adding another significant policy change to vastly expand gun-free zones in the state, by prohibiting the otherwise lawful carry of firearms in establishments that hold a liquor license.”

H.606 includes sections expanding the list of “prohibited persons,” banning machine gun conversion devices, banning so-called “rapid fire devices,” and creating an FFL and manufacturer liability public nuisance law that would threaten the firearms industry in the state. The liability section was previously amended out, but NRA-ILA said there are ongoing efforts by anti-gun legislators to re-insert the language.

S.329 includes sections expanding the list of “prohibited persons,” banning machine guns and machine gun conversion devices and placing a complete ban on the carrying of firearms in all establishments that serve alcohol for consumption, which would include bars, restaurants and hotels.

To enable members and other gun owners to let their voices be heard on S.329, NRA has provided a “Take Action” button that interested parties can click to send a prewritten letter to their state senator via email.

“S.329 expands the list of prohibited persons under state law to include those who receive outpatient mental health treatment pursuant to a civil court order,” the letter states. “This is out of step with federal prohibited person statutes and removes core constitutional rights from those who present no immediate threat to themselves or others.”

The letter continues: “S.329 also expands unsecured ‘gun-free zones.’ Criminals simply do not discriminate on the locations they choose to target innocent people because of a government gun-free zone sign. These rules do nothing to enhance public safety and only leave peaceable people defenseless. Painting all locations that serve alcohol as places where reckless conduct would occur conflates the issues; there is simply no evidence to support that assumption.”

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Gun Control groups look to dry up legal talents for gun Industry and Citizens trying to defend themselves in court.

By Larry Keane.

‘Gun control’ groups are foisting ‘gun control’ on the American public by taking to university campuses to convince law students to pledge to never represent the firearm industry, or its interests, in court.

‘Gun control’ groups are big Shakespeare fans, apparently. They’re taking a page from the famed Elizabethan-era bard’s Henry VI as the next play on foisting ‘gun control’ on the American public.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” Shakespeare wrote in the play.

Two ‘gun control’ groups are putting a 21st Century twist on the line and taking to university campuses to convince law students to pledge to never represent the firearm industry, or its interests, in court.

Call it the long game. ‘gun control’ isn’t satisfied with attacking Second Amendment rights, or even First Amendment rights. Now, they’re targeting Sixth Amendment rights too. That’s the amendment that guarantees the right to be represented by legal counsel.

Giffords Courage to Fight Gun Violence and March for Our Lives, ‘gun control’ groups headed by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, respectively, are canvassing campuses to convince law students to sign a pledge they won’t represent the firearm industry or firearm owners when it comes to protecting and preserving Second Amendment rights. The ‘gun control’ groups’ pledge peddles verifiably false claims to convince the aspiring lawyers that the firearm industry is responsible for violent crime in America.

Not criminals. Not gang violence. Not the illicit drug trade. They’re blaming the industry for crimes committed by violent offenders and ignoring basic legal foundations to sway law students to deny legal services to companies and individuals that follow the law.

Do You Swear?

David Pucino, Giffords’ deputy chief counsel, makes some dubious claims to convince law students that after they earn their juris doctorate, they should sign the ‘gun control’ group’s nonbinding pledge to never represent the legal interests of a Constitutionally-protected industry. First among these misleading claims is that firearms are the leading cause of death for American children.

This is a favorite false talking point among ‘gun control’ groups and antigun politicians, including President Joe Biden. The problem is that it is demonstrably false. The University of Michigan manipulated data sets to include 18 and 19-year-old adults as “children” to boost the figure of childhood deaths to surpass those caused by motor vehicle accidents. When 18 and 19-year-olds are backed out because they’re not children, but in fact adults, that claim falls apart. NSSF demonstrated that here.

Giffords’ pledge website also claims the firearm industry actively opposes “any effort to pass gun safety laws.” Again, this is demonstrably false. NSSF backed the FIX NICS Act, named for the firearm industry’s FixNICS® initiative to get all states to submit disqualifying records into the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). NSSF changed the laws in 16 states and in Congress to get the background check system to work as intended. In fact, NSSF helped create the instant point-of-sale background check system that would instantly inform a firearm retailer if a customer is prohibited from purchasing a firearm.

Pucino urges law student to never work for firms that represent the firearm industry because, in his estimation, the firearm industry “represent some really reprehensible companies that have done some horrible things.”

Never mind that the firearm industry administers the Real Solutions. Safer Communities® campaign that includes FixNICS and Project ChildSafe®, which partners with over 15,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states and five U.S. territories to distribute over 40 million free firearm safety kits including locking devices. Real Solutions also includes the partner programs with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to prevent illegal “straw” purchases of firearms through Don’t Lie for the Other Guy™ and Operation Secure Store® to help firearm retailers voluntarily increase security to deter and prevent firearm burglaries and robberies. The firearm industry also partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) to provide firearm retailers and ranges kits to encourage a “brave conversation” to prevent suicide tragedies.

Persona Non Grata

Giffords and March for Our Lives think these programs are “reprehensible” enough to demand the ATF not work with the firearm industry on these campaigns that have been proven to save lives. Giffords was among 43 other ‘gun control’ groups that demanded the ATF stop working with the industry it regulates.

“Stop funding, partnering, or co-branding programs with the National Sports Shooting Foundation via the Department of Justice and other Federal Agencies,” the letter said, according to The Reload. “No longer should the ATF hold private briefing and training sessions at NSSF’s annual SHOT SHOW without making their remarks available to the public online.”

NSSF pointed out how “unserious” ‘gun control’ groups are with their demands then. They continue to prove that unseriousness now. These ‘gun control’ groups put special-interest political agendas ahead of real answers to keep the public safe. Their answer isn’t to “do something” as they demand. It is to “do something” to ban guns. And now, apparently, it is also to ban legal representation.

Giffords and March for Our Lives rolled out their “pledge” drive at the University of California – Berkeley School of Law, Cardozo School of Law, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, Vanderbilt Law School and Yale Law School. Pucino said the drive isn’t limited to those schools. Plans are to make it “broad and national.”

The goal is to encourage the aspiring lawyers to flex their legal muscle, putting pressure on law firms that they’ll miss out on talent because these law school graduates will refuse to assist in any cases defending the firearm industry or Second Amendment rights. It’s a tall order.

“There’s certainly the case that the legal system allows for and encourages for everyone to have representation, of course,” Pucino conceded in an interview with The American Independent.

These ‘gun control’ groups might want to read Shakespeare’s Hamlet and flip forward to the line that reads, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”