Firearms Policy Coalition

PHILADELPHIA (September 10, 2025) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement today regarding a decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeal in an interlocutory appeal from FPC’s preliminary injunction against New Jersey’s post-Bruen legislation to ban firearm carry in public:

LAS VEGAS (September 5, 2025) — Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement regarding recent media reports suggesting that Department of Justice (DOJ) officials may be considering policies to restrict the right of entire classes of people to keep and bear arms:

BOSTON (August 29, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) condemned a decision by Chief United States District Judge Denise J. Casper that upheld Massachusetts’s ban on modern, constitutionally protected handguns and granted summary judgment to the state.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 28, 2025) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today announced that it has petitioned the United States Supreme Court in Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois, seeking to overturn Cook County’s unconstitutional ban on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.

NEW ORLEANS (August 27, 2025) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today condemned a badly flawed decision issued by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in United States v. George Peterson, an FPC-backed criminal appeal challenging the federal government’s unconstitutional National Firearms Act (NFA) firearm suppressor rules:

FORT WORTH, Texas (August 26, 2025) – Today, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a brief countering the federal government’s argument that, if FPC is successful in striking down the law, the court should enter an extremely narrow injunction that would deny millions of peaceable people their right to keep and bear arms.

SAN DIEGO (August 21, 2025) – Today, Federal District Court Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo issued a permanent injunction siding with FPC and blocking enforcement of California laws preventing FPC’s members who reside outside of California from acquiring a carry license (commonly called a “Carry Concealed Weapons” license, or “CCW”). The injunction follows the Court’s July decision that the law was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.

FORT WORTH, Texas (August 21, 2025) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today warned of a new Trump Administration strategy to block enforcement of constitutional rights.

SAN FRANCISCO (August 14, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its mandate in FPC’s victory over California’s “one-gun-per-month” gun ban law, making it the first time the Circuit has issued a final judgment striking down a law as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. This follows Attorney General Bonta’s rare move, where he declined to ask the Circuit to rehear the case en banc.