Law and the Courts

In 2018, survivors and family members of the Sutherland Springs, Texas church shooting filed suit against Academy Sports + Outdoor for selling the shooter the rifle he used to murder 25 people. The killer,...

Over the last year, I've made a solidly-performing 9mm polymer framed pistol, a fun AR-15 style rifle and a great "parts-bin" AR10 in 6.5 Creedmoor based on kits from 80% Arms and Brownells. For...

By Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University Could calling the illegal use of firearms a “public nuisance” bring an end to the gun industry’s immunity from civil lawsuits? New York will soon test that notion. State...

Devin Patrick Kelley bought an AR-15 rifle from a Texas Academy Sports + Outdoor store that he used in November of 2017 to murder 25 people in a church in the town of Sutherland...

The assault against gun makers in the courts continues. As you probably know, gun makers are protected against legal liability when their products that were manufactured and sold legally are used in the commission...

“Our nation’s most cherished constitutional rights vest no later than 18.” That's a fact and a finding that's awfully inconvenient for the moral superiors who make up the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex. They're highly...

ATF's Form 4473, the required background check form for purchasing a firearm, includes a litany of questions to which the prospective purchaser affirms, on penalty of felony, that they have answered honestly. When 65-year-old...

After a deranged 20-y/o murdered his own mother and stole her Bushmaster (a brand owned by Remington) rifle, he used it to attack Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December, 2012, tragically...

By Cody J. Wisniewki Sometimes you feel overwhelmed in a good way. Last week brought an avalanche of amicus briefs in the major Supreme Court gun rights case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association...

The first rule of government: If you can't fix a problem, appoint a commission. The second rule of government: If a commission won't deflect attention from your shortcomings, sue someone. The second approach is...

From the NSSF . . . NSSF, the firearm industry trade association, rejects Mexico’s allegations that U.S. firearm manufacturers participated in negligent business practices. All firearms sold at retail within the United States are sold...

By Lee Williams The New York Times has seized upon a lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against six American firearms manufacturers – which even the newspaper’s own experts admit is frivolous – as if...