Pro-gun rights

For too long, politicians have underestimated how central the Second Amendment is to American voters. They assumed that a few campaign slogans would be enough to satisfy gun owners.

But a new Reuters/Ipsos poll from Sept. 23 proves otherwise: Republicans now lead Democrats by four points on gun policy and by a decisive 20 points on crime. These numbers show that defending the right to keep and bear arms is not only good policy—it’s good politics. They also confirm a larger trend: America supports President Trump’s pro-gun agenda.

In 2022, Gun Owners of America (GOA) warned Republican Senators and Representatives about the dangers and pitfalls of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which led former President Biden to issue a directive to the ATF to bring this nation “as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation” and bribed states with federal grants to enact red flag laws. Yet weak Republicans bent the knee to their Democratic colleagues, crossed the aisle, and voted for the worst infringement on the Second Amendment in decades hoping that their compromise would be rewarded.

The political consequences were swift. Grassroots voters sent a clear message: they will not accept half-measures or betrayals. Politicians who say they support the Second Amendment but vote against it are finding themselves out of office.

Meanwhile, the face of gun ownership has changed. The modern gun owner is not satisfied with words on a campaign flyer. They expect results, and they act at the ballot box when politicians fail. They also know the Second Amendment is not about hunting—it is about preserving liberty. Many now train and equip themselves seriously, taking on the responsibility of being their own first responders. That level of commitment demands an equally serious response from elected officials.

With this lead over Democrats in the polls, Republicans are reaping the benefits of their pro-gun actions. Earlier this year, Republicans eliminated the $200 tax on items like short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors, and other firearms that are regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA). While this was far from what the pro-gun community was demanding—that is, the removal of these items entirely from NFA regulations—it was at least a step in the right direction. For over 90 years, the NFA was the centerpiece of the gun control lobby’s agenda. Chipping away at it is more than symbolic—it’s a sign that Republicans are beginning to legislate in line with the priorities of the people who elect them.

And Trump himself set the tone. His executive order on “Protecting Second Amendment Rights” directed federal agencies to review and eliminate regulations that infringed on the right to keep and bear arms. That move, like the recent rollback of NFA taxes, demonstrated that a proactive, unapologetic defense of gun rights can strengthen both policy and political standing. The latest polling is simply more proof that Americans reward leaders who follow through on their promises to protect the Second Amendment.

The effect has even been felt in Washington, D.C.—long considered the heart of gun control. Under U.S. Attorney Pirro and Trump’s DOJ, prosecutors stopped charging people for lawfully carrying rifles, shotguns, and so-called “high-capacity” magazines because those laws are unconstitutional. At the same time, the District has been forced to speed up concealed-carry permitting. These changes, in one of the most hostile jurisdictions in the country, are a direct reflection of a pro-gun agenda being put into practice.

Voters increasingly trust Republicans to keep their communities safe, not because they embrace gun control, but because they recognize that empowering citizens is more effective than restricting them. Crime is an issue where Republicans now hold a 20-point advantage, and that edge reflects the credibility earned by defending gun rights rather than compromising them away.

The lesson for Republicans could not be clearer: Gun owners are no longer satisfied with rhetoric alone. They are a decisive voting bloc that expects meaningful action. Compromise bills like the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act cost Republicans dearly, while unapologetically pro-gun measures are rewarded at the polls.

The anti-gun movement is showing cracks, and every pro-freedom reform widens them. If Republicans want to win the trust of Americans on both safety and liberty, they must continue to embrace Trump’s no compromise, pro-gun agenda. Gun owners will have their backs, so long as they have ours.

JP Pichardo is a federal lobbyist for Gun Owners of America who specializes in Congressional procedure. He previously interned for Congressman Paul Gosar and The Heritage Foundation’s Government Relations Department and can be found on X at @JPPichardo1776.

LAS VEGAS (October 2, 2025) – In the wake of two major court-ordered injunctions explicitly protecting members of Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), the organization today launched a new secure online portal where members can instantly verify their membership status, download or print an official FPC Certificate of Membership Status, update their contact information, and join or renew their FPC membership. These important new features can be accessed at firearmspolicy.org/membership.

For 91 years, the unconstitutional National Firearms Act has trampled on your Second Amendment rights.

This year, GOA spearheaded the movement to gut the NFA, and we came within a whisker of outright victory. Even leftist publications like The Guardian were amazed that GOA was able to move the fight “from a fringe view into a broadly supported position.”

While Congress finally gutted the NFA’s tax provisions, dropping the $200 fee to $0 for suppressors and short-barreled firearms, they left the real infringement untouched… the federal government’s registration mandates.

That’s why GOA and partners launched the One, Big, Beautiful Lawsuit, to finish what Congress refused to do and rip the NFA out by its roots.

But here’s the truth: This isn’t a sprint. It’s a marathon. The legal battle will cost over $500,000, and the other side is counting on us running out of steam before we get to the Supreme Court.

That’s why we’re asking our most loyal gun rights defenders to become recurring monthly donors to GOA.

When you commit to giving $25, $50, or even $100 a month, you provide the stable, sustained funding our legal team needs to keep the pressure on, month after month, until the NFA falls.

The Supreme Court upheld the NFA in 1937 only because it was a tax law. Now that the tax is gone, the constitutional legs it stood on have been kicked out from under it. All that’s left is bureaucratic overreach—and we’re going to tear it down.

But we can’t do it without a rock-solid base of patriots we can count on every month.

Will you stand with GOA by making a recurring monthly donation today so we can sustain this fight until we win?

NEW ORLEANS (October 2, 2025) — FPC Law announced today that it has filed a critical brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals demanding the appellate court apply the clear mandate of the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment test for determining the constitutional protection for bearable arms first established in the landmark 2008 D.C. v. Heller ruling and unambiguously codified in the 2022 NYSRPA v. Bruen decision.

It was a high-stakes week in the Pennsylvania House, as lawmakers voted on four major gun control bills — with mixed results.

Here’s your breakdown of what passed, what was defeated, and what’s coming next in the fight for your Second Amendment rights.

The following anti-gun bill passed on the House floor and now moves to the PA Senate:

• HB 1593 (Universal Registration Checks) — Passed on a 104Y-99N vote. This bill would outlaw the private sale of long guns unless you get government permission first. It would also set the stage for a registry in Pennsylvania for all firearms transactions, just like there is for handguns presently. Five Republican representatives voted in favor of this bill, ensuring its passage: Joe Hogan, Kristen Marcell (who later changed her vote to NO, but this does not affect the final passage vote), K.C. Tomlinson, Martina White, and Craig Williams.

The following anti-gun bills were defeated on the House floor:

• HB 1099 (Undetectable Firearms) — Defeated on a 101Y-102N vote. This bill would have made it a 3rd degree felony to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive a firearm made entirely of a non-metal substance.
• HB 1859 (Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders) — Defeated on a 101Y-102N vote. This bill would have created Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders, allowing “ex parte” star chamber proceedings where only one party presents evidence before a judge with no right to face the accuser until AFTER firearms are seized through an order by a pliant judge.
• HB 1866 (Glock Switch Ban) — Defeated on a 101Y-102N vote. Efforts to make “Glock switches” and other machine gun conversion devices triply illegal are nothing more than virtue-signaling. It will do absolutely nothing to prevent evil people from committing crimes since criminals ALREADY ignore the federal ban on these devices.

GOA members and supporters led the charge in defeating three of the four anti-gun bills. Thousands of messages flooded the Capitol, putting pressure on wavering lawmakers—and it worked. Your action made the difference.

Friend, the only thing standing between Pennsylvania and the kind of extreme anti-gun laws seen in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland is a narrow pro-gun Republican majority in the State Senate. If that firewall breaks, our Second Amendment rights could fall with it.

That’s why I need you to contact your state senator by using the form above and urge them to STOP HB 1593 and ALL gun control bills. Let your senator know that anti-gun legislation should never see the light of day.

GOA’s Erich Pratt with Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), who is the chief sponsor of H.R. 38

In the wake of recent tragic shootings, it’s clearer than ever: Responsible, law-abiding gun owners make a difference when they’re able to protect themselves and others.

That’s why I’m reaching out to you today. President Trump has publicly called on Congress to pass the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R. 38), and we need your help to get it across the finish line.

Simply put, this bill would ensure that your concealed carry permit is recognized in every state that allows concealed carry. Just like your First Amendment freedom of speech is not limited to your home state, neither should the rights protected under the Second Amendment be limited to the state where you live. This is a common-sense solution that respects the rights of lawful gun owners and promotes public safety.

GOA is working hard to secure support for this important legislation, but we can’t do it without grassroots activists like you making your voices heard. That’s why I’m asking you to take a moment right now to sign our pre-written letter urging your Representative to help garner greater support for H.R. 38, by getting it passed in the House.

The right to self-defense shouldn’t end when you cross state lines.

Let’s encourage Congress to stand with responsible gun owners and support national concealed carry reciprocity.

Thank you for standing with GOA in defense of the Second Amendment.

FORT WORTH, TX  (September 30, 2025) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today issued a scathing rebuke of the Northern District of Texas, which, in a profound act of judicial abdication, delivered an erroneous opinion upholding the federal government’s unconstitutional prohibition on the acquisition of handguns by peaceable Americans in Elite Precision Customs v. ATF.

FORT WORTH, TX (September 30, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) secured another landmark victory for individual liberty when Chief District Judge Reed O’Connor for the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas ruled that the federal ban on firearm possession, storage, and carry at United States Post Offices and related properties, including post office parking lots, violates the Second Amendment in the FPC case of Firearms Policy Coalition v. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) and Sheriff Robert Luna on Tuesday, accusing it of “systematically” delaying concealed carry permits for law-abiding citizens in violation of the Second Amendment.

The lawsuit, which the DOJ touts as its first-ever affirmative lawsuit in support of gun owners, alleges the LASD created a “pattern and practice” of obstruction by forcing law-abiding citizens to wait months and even years for a decision.

The DOJ said in their complaint that, between January 2024 and March 2025, the sheriff’s office received 3,982 new applications for concealed carry permits and, as of May 8, approved only two. As of that date, two of the remaining applications were denied, 1,210 “were withdrawn for various reasons” and “approximately 2,768 applications for a new license to carry a concealed firearm remained pending.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the sheriff’s office for comment, but they did not immediately respond.

The lawsuit follows an investigation started by the DOJ in March after its civil rights division received numerous complaints about delays it said were “inexplicable,” well beyond California statutory requirements and in violation of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.

The department said it reviewed more than 8,000 applications received by the LASD, including renewals, and found delays averaging more than a year. Some applicants had interviews scheduled into late 2026, more than two years after filing.

California law requires authorities to respond to applications within 90 days.

“The Second Amendment protects the fundamental constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Los Angeles County may not like that right, but the Constitution does not allow them to infringe upon it. This Department of Justice will continue to fight for the Second Amendment.”

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, comes after gun groups brought a separate case led by the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) along with Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners of California and the Second Amendment Foundation.

That lawsuit accused Luna and the LASD of dragging out concealed carry applications with long delays, added fees and new requirements. A judge has already issued a partial injunction, ordering LASD to shorten wait times and requiring California to open a process for non-residents to apply for permits beginning in April.

The California Rifle & Pistol Association welcomed news of the DOJ lawsuit.

“CRPA and our allies blazed a trail over the past three years, going county-by-county across California to ensure Bruen-compliant CCW (concealed carry weapon) processes,” Chuck Michel, CRPA’s president and general counsel said. “Stubborn jurisdictions, such as Los Angeles, dug in their heels with delays, fees and new requirements to keep lawful citizens from securing CCW’s. We are thrilled that the Trump administration finds this abuse as egregious as we do.”

“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This lawsuit seeks to stop Los Angeles County’s egregious pattern and practice of delaying law-abiding citizens from exercising their right to bear arms.”

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SAN FRANCISCO (September 26, 2025) — Today, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed an important brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals explaining how the appellate court should apply the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment test for determining the constitutional protection for arms first established in the 2008 D.C. v. Heller ruling and further explained in the 2022 NYSRPA v. Bruen decision.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (September 26, 2025) – Yesterday—five months after the parties filed a joint status report informing the court that it must rule for the State of California under binding Ninth Circuit precedent in Duncan v. Bonta—Senior United States District Judge William B. Shubb issued an order lifting the stay and granting summary judgment to the State of California in Wiese v. Bonta, a case filed in April 2017 challenging California’s ban on so-called “large-capacity” magazines.

The largest banks in America, including Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, are actively debanking and discriminating against the entire firearms industry. They’re targeting gun manufacturers, retailers, and organizations like GOA, refusing to provide banking services, all to appease radical anti-gun activists.

This is a deliberate, un-American assault on the Constitutionally protected right of all Americans to keep and bear arms. It’s not just wrong. It’s dangerous. And it must stop!

Sign the letter to the CEOs of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and the Bank Policy Institute, urging them to stop targeting the Second Amendment community.

For years, these banks have imposed “values-based” policies to choke off access to financial services for the firearms industry. They don’t just want to restrict YOUR rights. They want to erase the entire Second Amendment from the marketplace.

Their brazen actions have forced many gun businesses and organizations to turn to smaller regional banks, unable to operate with any certainty. This political discrimination isn’t just ideological. It’s a direct attack on our freedoms, our businesses, and our way of life.

Now, these same banks want to blame “regulatory pressure,” but their anti-gun bias is on the record and undeniable. When our opponents can’t win at the ballot box, they use the financial system to silence us.

It’s time for every gun owner and patriot to stand up and say: ENOUGH.

I’m asking you to join me in sending a powerful message straight to the CEOs of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and the Bank Policy Institute. Sign our pre-written letter demanding they make a formal, public commitment to stop targeting the firearms industry and pro-2A organizations.

President Trump has already taken bold action to end this un-American practice, but we need the banks to do the right thing NOW.

Click here to sign your name to our letter demanding fair banking for gun owners and the firearms industry!

Anti-gun Speaker Joanna McClinton (D-191) is fast-tracking FOUR anti-gun bills that were reported earlier this week from the House Judiciary Committee. These bills could be up for a final vote as early as next Tuesday.

The anti-gun Democratic leadership is planning on running the following bills:

• HB 1099 (Undetectable Firearms) — This bill would make it a 3rd degree felony to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive a firearm made entirely of a non-metal substance. Undetectable firearms are a myth, and there should be no restrictions on the type of gun we should be allowed to make or own.
• HB 1593 (Universal Registration Checks) — This bill would outlaw the private sale of long guns unless you get government permission first. It would also set the stage for a registry in Pennsylvania for all firearms transactions, just like there is for handguns presently.
• HB 1859 (Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders) — This bill would create Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders, allowing “ex parte” star chamber proceedings where only one party presents evidence before a judge with no right to face the accuser until AFTER firearms are seized through an order by a pliant judge.
• HB 1866 (Glock Switch Ban) — Efforts to make “Glock switches” and other machine gun conversion devices triply illegal are nothing more than virtue-signaling. It will do absolutely nothing to prevent evil people from committing crimes since criminals ALREADY ignore the federal ban on these devices.

The good news is that these bills can still be stopped—but only if gun owners take action.

That’s why I need you to contact your state representative (by using the form above) and urge them to vote NO on all of the proposed gun control measures right away.