Firearms Policy Coalition

CHICAGO (June 17, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) praised the filing of an important “friend-of-the-court” brief by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in support of FPC’s lawsuit challenging the Illinois Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA), which bans so-called “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines”, all constitutionally protected arms. The DOJ brief urges the Seventh Circuit to uphold FPC’s victory at the district court and marks a critical step in fulfilling President Trump’s commitment to protect Americans’ fundamental right to keep and bear arms.

NEW ORLEANS (June 17, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has withdrawn the flawed 3-judge panel opinion in United States v. George Peterson, an FPC-backed criminal case challenging the federal government’s regulation of suppressors through unconstitutional registration and taxation requirements. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 17, 2025) — Today, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) called on the full United States Senate to support and pass the Finance Committee’s firearm law and tax reforms in the budget reconciliation package. These critically important reforms include the elimination of unconstitutional taxes, restrictions, and red tape on the lawful purchase and possession of popular, constitutionally protected firearms and firearm suppressors, making them more accessible to law-abiding Americans.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 16, 2025) — Today, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) praised the Senate Finance Committee on its wise and courageous leadership in proposing a number of critically important and constitutionally required firearm law and tax reforms in the budget reconciliation package (at section 70436, “Elimination Of Tax On Certain Devices Under The National Firearms Act”).

NEW ORLEANS (June 12, 2025) – Today, attorneys for George Peterson have filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals responding to the federal government’s latest filing in United States v. George Peterson, an FPC-backed criminal case challenging the federal government’s regulation of suppressors through unconstitutional registration and taxation requirements. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 11, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of an important Supreme Court brief in the case of Melynda Vincent v. Attorney General Pam Bondi, a challenge to the federal lifetime ban on the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms for nonviolent felons. FPC is joined by FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF), the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) as parties to the brief, authored by attorneys Joseph G.S. Greenlee and Erin M. Erhardt of NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 11, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) urged the U.S. Senate to hold the line and pass President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” with the legislation’s current suppressor reforms intact.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 10, 2025) — Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) hailed the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Smith & Wesson, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, which applied the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) against the Mexican government’s frivolous lawsuit against gun manufacturers including Smith & Wesson, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Beretta U.S.A., Glock, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Interstate Arms, Century International Arms, and Colt’s Manufacturing Company. You can read FPC’s brief in support of review here, merits-stage brief here, and the Supreme Court’s opinion here.

CHICAGO (June 9, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) asked the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold its critical victory over the Illinois “Protect Illinois Communities Act” (PICA) gun control regulations, which bans so-called “assault weapons” and “large capacity” magazines. FPC’s brief says that the “question presented by this case is whether the Second Amendment allows Illinois to ban the best-selling rifle in America and its standard magazine. The answer,” FPC argues, “is no.”

NEW ORLEANS (June 4, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of an important legal brief urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court’s decision dismissing the government’s case against someone charged with violating the federal ban on machine guns, ultimately holding that the ban cannot pass muster under the Second Amendment. FPC joined FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) and the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) as parties to the brief.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 2, 2025) — FPC issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari in Snope v. Brown, a lawsuit challenging a ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ in Maryland:

Congress must fix and pass H.R. 38 to protect the right to bear arms nationwide.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 2, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) called on Congress to fix and pass H.R. 38, the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act,” so that millions of peaceable American gun owners can exercise their right to bear arms without the fear of arrest or prosecution, particularly in anti-Second Amendment strongholds like California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey. 

CINCINNATI (May 30, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that attorneys for an FPC-backed student plaintiff filed a petition for rehearing in a lawsuit challenging a Michigan public school’s ban on pro-Second Amendment speech, seeking review from the full Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a federal appellate court that covers Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 

FORT WORTH, TX (May 29, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that it has filed a reply brief in support of its motion for summary judgment in the group’s Second Amendment lawsuit challenging laws prohibiting individuals from carrying firearms at certain locations in Texas.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 22, 2025) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement: