Pro-gun rights

 

URGENT: Pass Constitutional Carry, Strengthen Preemption, and Stop Retaliatory Gun Control!

The battle lines are drawn in Harrisburg, and we have a historic opportunity to secure our liberties—but only if we act immediately!

Right now, we are fighting on multiple fronts to protect our God-given rights, and the gun grabbers are throwing an absolute temper tantrum because we are winning.

First, some incredible news. SB 357, the GOA-backed Constitutional Carry bill, has cleared a major hurdle! The Senate Judiciary Committee reported the bill out on a 9-5 party line vote earlier this month. It is now sitting on the Senate floor, positioned for a final vote, which may occur in early June.

For years, we’ve worked for Pennsylvania to join the 29 other states that respect your constitutionally protected right to carry a firearm without a government permission slip. We are closer than ever, but we need a massive push to get SB 357 passed through the full Senate.

Meanwhile, we have a golden opportunity in the House to protect law-abiding gun owners from rogue local politicians. SB 822, our bill to strengthen firearms preemption, passed the full Senate and is currently sitting in the House Judiciary Committee.

As you know, local anti-gun politicians love to pass illegal, unconstitutional local ordinances to harass law-abiding gun owners. SB 822 would finally put teeth into our preemption laws and hold these tyrannical local governments accountable. We need the House Judiciary Committee to report this bill immediately and send it to the floor for a full vote.

But make no mistake—the gun grabbers aren’t taking this lying down.

In a purely petty retaliatory move to punish gun owners for the Senate passage of SB 822, rabidly anti-gun State Representative Dan Frankel (D-23) has introduced two gun control bills: HB 2505 and HB 2506.

Frankel’s bills are nothing more than a revenge tactic designed to gut preemption and systematically strip away your rights. Frankel’s legislation would also allow anti-gun municipalities to engage in lawfare against the firearms industry by permitting lawsuits against gun manufacturers.

Frankel’s retaliatory bills have been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, and a critical vote on both bills may come as early as June.

That’s why I need you to take action now by sending a message to your state senator (by using the form above) to vote YES on SB 357 to finally bring Constitutional Carry to Pennsylvania.

And while you are at it, let your state representative know to vote YES on SB 822 to strengthen preemption, and demand they vote NO on Dan Frankel’s retaliatory bills, HB 2505 and HB 2506.

Our lawmakers need to know that we are watching, and we will not tolerate any compromise on our God-given rights.

Please send your messages today!

ABOLISH THE HUGHES AMENDMENT! GOA-backed legislation introduced by Rep. Jimmy Patronis repeals the Hughes Amendment, making post-1986 machineguns legal…

Representative Jimmy Patronis has just introduced a GOA-backed bill: the “Firearm Freedom Act”

This bill fully repeals the dreaded Hughes Amendment, which banned the sale of automatic firearms manufactured after 1986.

The Hughes Amendment was an unconstitutional “poison pill” in the Firearm Owners Protection Act that should have never passed.

We’re calling on our GOA grassroots members to tell their elected Representatives to co-sponsor this bill!

REP. PATRONIS’ BILL: THE “FIREARM FREEDOM ACT OF 2026”

Rep. Patronis’ Bill, the Firearm Freedom Act— would repeal the worst part of the 1986 Firearm Owner Protection Act:

The Hughes Amendment.

During the passage of FOPA, Rep. William J. Hughes, a Democrat from New Jersey, offered up an amendment.

That amendment, passed by an unrecorded “voice vote” added a ban on machineguns made after the signing of the bill— May 19th,1986.

Ever since that day, Gun Owners of America has fought hard to overturn the Hughes Amendment because…

The Second Amendment includes automatic firearms.

Rep. Patronis’ GOA-backed legislation corrects this unconstitutional wrong that was perpetrated on gun owners.

That’s why we need GOA members to urge their Representatives to cosponsor Rep. Patronis’ bill.

Here’s what Rep. Jimmy Patronis had to say about his legislation:

“I’m proud to introduce the Firearm Freedom Act to defend the Second Amendment, and I’m grateful for the support of Gun Owners of America, as we fight to protect gun owners across this country.

“For too long, Washington bureaucrats have tried to chip away at the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution.

“The Firearm Freedom Act pushes back against that overreach and stands up for the rights afforded to all Americans.”

Let’s make machineguns great again!

Gun Owners of America Endorses Rep. Boebert’s Bill to Eliminate Tax on Automatic Weapons

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 20, 2026

Washington, D.C. – Gun Owners of America (GOA) is proud to endorse Representative Lauren Boebert’s bill introduced today on the week of the 40th anniversary of the Hughes Amendment becoming law. The Freedom from Taxes Act of 2026 would reduce the $200 NFA tax on machine guns (and destructive devices) to $0.

For the last 92 years, law-abiding Americans have had their Second Amendment rights infringed through a draconian and unconstitutional $200 “sin” tax on the transfer of each machine gun. Representative Boebert’s bill would finish what Congress started in the One Big Beautiful Bill last year: reducing National Firearms Act excise taxes.

Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior Vice President, issued the following statement:

“From its inception, GOA opposed the Hughes Amendment when it was signed into law. Forty years later, GOA still opposes any infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. That’s why Gun Owners of America is proud to endorse Representative Boebert’s bill that would reduce the $200 NFA tax on machine guns. Under this GOA-backed legislation, the right to own a machine gun without paying a ‘sin’ tax would be fully restored—just like the Founding Fathers intended.”

Representative Lauren Boebert, of Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, issued the following statement:

“Taxing our constitutional rights is unacceptable and unconstitutional. The Freedom from Taxes Act builds on the progress we made in the One Big Beautiful Bill by completely eliminating the final NFA taxes on machine guns and destructive devices. My bill also eliminates the burdensome Special Occupational Tax that’s been crushing our small businesses and manufacturers. The government should not be imposing penalties on law-abiding citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights.”

GOA spokesmen are available for interviews. Gun Owners of America is a nonprofit grassroots lobbying organization representing over two million members and activists. For more information, visit GOA’s Press Center.

-GOA-

 

Maryland defied the Supreme Court. FPC is going to make them answer for it.

What: Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) petitioned the United States Supreme Court in Novotny v. Moore, seeking to strike down provisions of Maryland’s Gun Safety Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 1, 2023 Reg. Sess.), which imposed new bans on the constitutionally protected right to carry firearms in public. The district court previously ruled that parts of the challenged laws were unconstitutional, followed by the Fourth Circuit wrongly ruling that all provisions but the state’s “Vampire Rule” are constitutional.

MAKE MACHINEGUNS GREAT AGAIN! GOA-backed legislation introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert works to gut the NFA and make machineguns more accessible…

Representative Lauren Boebert has just introduced her GOA-backed bill: the “Freedom From Taxes Act of 2026.”

This bill reduces the $200 tax stamp on Machineguns and Destructive Devices to $0.

This legislation helps to gut the National Firearms Act, and helps our lawsuit against the onerous and illegal registration requirements of the NFA.

We’re calling on our GOA grassroots members to tell their elected Representatives to co-sponsor this bill!

REP. BOEBERT’S BILL: THE “FREEDOM FROM TAXES ACT OF 2026”

Rep. Boebert’s bill works to cut the taxes from the remaining regulated items under the purview of the National Firearms Act.

We at GOA are currently working through the courts after the Senate Parliamentarian refused to remove the registration requirements on Short Barreled Firearms, AOWs and Suppressors during the legislation process on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Our aptly named “One Big Beautiful Lawsuit” will remove the registration requirement on these items, as Congress’s original intent with the NFA was a registration of a tax, not the item itself.

The Department of Justice, furious that they could lose a registry of gun owners— has fought back against us, tooth-and-nail.

That’s why it’s so important to remove the taxes on these items. Registries of gun owners are blatantly illegal under federal law.

Whether it’s Suppressors or Machineguns, no registry should exist for these items. They are protected by the Second Amendment.

That’s why we need GOA members to urge their Representatives to cosponsor Rep. Boebert’s bill—because removing the taxes on NFA items is an important first step to eliminating the registry.

Our vocal grassroots members can hold Congress accountable.

GOA members have been crucial to change and have been critical in moving the overton window on NFA items.

Even the most cynical media outlets had to admit that GOA and our members changed the conversation on the National Firearms Act during the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passage.

The Guardian wrote that GOA’s “push to gut the NFA changed from a fringe view into a broadly supported position.” 

So now, we’re going to do the same for the rest of the National Firearms Act.

Let’s make machineguns great again!

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