Second Amendment

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is adding a “Second Amendment Rights Section” to its Civil Rights Division.

In keeping with the new state requirement that all would-be handgun buyers first acquire a purchase permit, the Delaware State Police have launched a portal for permit applications. 

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed suit Wednesday over what they claim was an “unconstitutional search” of a legal gun owner who is also a high school student. 

The U.S. Supreme Court began a new term on Monday and is set to rule on several cases that will impact a wide range of highly consequential issues. 

Author, Hollywood producer, and gun control proponent Stephen King reacted to the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting by contending that blame should be focused on guns rather than whether the shooter was transgender.

A Houston, Texas, homeowner shot and killed two alleged would-be intruders impersonating police officers Friday around 11 p.m. 

The NRA, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), American Suppressor Association (ASA), and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to challenge the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA).

President Trump’s DOJ posted a proposed rule in the federal registry designed to guide the AG in restoring gun rights to those who lost them. 

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill over the weekend banning the enforcement of red flag laws in cities and municipalities throughout the state of Texas.

On Friday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the Second Amendment Foundation’s lower court victory against California’s one-gun-a-month law.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is limiting the ATF’s ability to harass Federal Firearm License holders (FFLs) by cutting the number of ATF inspectors by two-thirds. 

Smith & Wesson president and CEO Mark Smith celebrated the end of Mexico’s lawsuit against his company, telling “all American patriots” that they stand with them.

The constitutional carry legislation that passed the North Carolina Senate by a vote of 26 to 18 passed out of a House committee Tuesday.

A settlement announced Friday indicated President Trump’s Department of Justice will not maintain or enforce a ban on forced reset triggers (FRTs) which was put in place under the Biden administration.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed legislation Thursday banning red flag laws in cities and/or municipalities throughout the state. 

The Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act advanced in the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on Tuesday, inching closer to the restoration of hundreds of thousands of veterans’ gun rights. 

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed legislation Friday that will changes state law to allow 18-year-olds to own and carry handguns.

President Donald Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office about the Florida State University (FSU) attack and noted, “The gun doesn’t do the shooting, the people do.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the creation of a Second Amendment Task Force on Tuesday, using a memo to tell DOJ employees the task force was created to prevent 2A rights from being treated like second class rights.

Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia (R) voted with Democrats to defeat campus carry legislation in the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice.

The South Dakota House passed campus legislation Thursday, which means the bill now goes to Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden’s desk.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is pressing Florida’s Republican supermajority to repeal various gun controls enacted following the February 14, 2018, Parkland shooting, including the state’s red flag law. 

The Second Amendment does not protect “access” to a gun “without a violent criminal background check,”  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Former President Joe Biden’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention has been scrubbed from President Trump’s White House website.

During and a back-and-forth with actor and comedian Theo Von, Joe Rogan discussed gun ownership and said that the United States has “unique freedom” because “the First Amendment is protected by the Second Amendment.”

Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) took a parting shot at Republicans Sunday, describing them as having a laissez faire approach to gun rights that is “too extreme.”

A poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates shows three-quarters of American voters believe it is “important” to see pro-2A judges nominated and confirmed at the federal level.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called on Congress to rally behind his National Constitutional Carry Act on Sunday to remove the government’s ongoing interference with the people’s right to bear arms for self-defense.

A report by the New York Times suggests President-elect Donald J. Trump has “lost faith” in the National Rifle Association (NRA).

Over the weekend President-elect Donald Trump announced a push for national concealed carry reciprocity, a move which would make the concealed permit of any one state valid in the other 49.

Elon Musk used an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience to speak in support of private gun ownership, making clear the ultimate purpose of an armed citizenry is to stop government tyranny.

American voters rejected Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris’s gun control agenda on Tuesday, handing her a thorough defeat while giving pro-Second Amendment Republican Donald Trump a resounding victory.

The Second Amendment references a militia, “the security of a free State,” and two specific rights–the right to possess arms and the right to carry them–and all of this is bound together by a general, overarching right to self-defense.

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk announced on Saturday that his pro-Trump Super PAC, the America PAC would be giving $1 million away “randomly” to people who sign his petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments.

The Second Amendment does not create a right to keep and bear arms, rather, it protects a pre-existing, God-given right to do so. 

Breitbart News’s AWR Hawkins received the 2A ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the 39th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference over the weekend.