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Firearms Policy Coalition
@gunpolicy
Your friendly neighborhood freedom fighters. We’re working to create a world of maximal liberty. Superior firepower through superior memes (and lawsuits).
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Apr 5 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
If you haven't read CA's Motion to block our victory in our Nguyen v. Bonta "1-in-30" Firearms Purchase Ban Lawsuit, you should. It's a fun one 🙄.

Here are some of the highlights:

According to California, the Second Amendment only protects "keeping" and "bearing" arms; apparently, acquiring a firearm isn't a necessary step to "keeping" and "bearing."Image ReEeEEEEeeeEE, people will be able to buy in bulk...

Hint: That's a good thing, actually. Image
Mar 20 • 41 tweets • 7 min read
WE ARE LIVE!

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Image You can follow along on this thread or listen live here: youtube.com/live/o-tJwn9G6…
Mar 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Attention jackboots and anti-rights zealots:

Willfully caging peaceable people, like Dexter Taylor (@futureradiocast), for exercising their rights freely—by harmlessly possessing constitutionally protected arms—is the opposite of “I support the 2nd Amendment.”

🧵👇 Image “Dexter Taylor is a 52-year-old native New Yorker and a software engineer who enjoys building things. When he discovered the world of gun manufacturing, he believed he had found a new hobby and possibly a small business opportunity. Now, he is locked in a legal battle for his freedom against the state of New York.”Image
Feb 28 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
FPC WIN: A California federal judge has ruled against the state's practice of denying Second Amendment rights to people whose non-violent felony convictions in other states were vacated and nullified. You can read the opinion here: firearmspolicy.org/linton
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1) The plaintiffs were convicted of non-violent felonies in other states.
2) Those convictions were eventually vacated, set aside, or dismissed, and their right to possess firearms restored, by the state where they were convicted.
3) Despite the fact that their rights were restored, California still considers them permanently prohibited from possessing firearms, essentially saying that they will respect the other states' court order convicting them, but not the subsequent order restoring their rights.
4) The judge ruled today that, as applied to the plaintiffs, California's practice violates the Second Amendment.
Feb 28 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
BIG DAY FOR 2A!

The Garland v. Cargill Bumpstock Ban Lawsuit Oral Arguments with SCOTUS is happening live NOW!

You can listen live here: supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…
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Jan 31 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
LEGAL ALERT: A federal judge has struck down California's ammunition background check requirement, saying it violates the Second Amendment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…


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Image "Though they are citizens entitled to enjoy all of the constitutional rights, Californians are denied the Second Amendment right to buy ammunition for self-defense at least 11% of the time because of problems with the background check system." Image
Jan 24 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
California is up now Judge Miller asks California how this case is related to Duncan. California says it wouldn't object to holding this case until a ruling in Duncan.
Dec 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
FPC WIN: In a 261-page opinion, the Second Circuit has struck down New York's social media disclosure requirement for carry permits, its default private property gun ban, and part of its church carry ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…



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Image The court upheld the rest of NY's Bruen response bill, however.
Dec 8, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
GM ☕️

Yesterday, FPC and @FPCAction filed our comments against the ATF “Engaged in the Business” Proposed Rule.

In short:

@ATFHQ appears to misunderstand, or intentionally misinterpret, the structure of our government and the state of firearms law in this country.

Full 🧵👇 Image “At base, the Proposed Rule demonstrates either a complete failure to understand the natural, unalienable, fundamental rights of the People or, more insidiously, an intentional effort to undermine those very rights. While commentors will provide a thorough demonstration of the inherent flaws with the regulatory changes offered in the Proposed Rule, our comments can be described with a single word: NO”
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Dec 4, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The ATF "Engaged in the Business" Proposed Rule has seen a flood of NPC copy-pasta hits from brainless bots supporting the rule.

Some in the anti-rights crowd are bragging as if this is some victory. It is not.

This is why: 🧵 Image The government's own FAQs page says, "This process is not like a ballot initiative or an up‐or‐down vote in a legislature. An agency is not permitted to base its final rule on the number of comments."

Source:
federalregister.gov/uploads/2011/0…
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Nov 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
LEGAL ALERT: The Fifth Circuit has denied the federal government's motion to stay the preliminary injunction against its redefining of forced reset triggers as machine guns (which only applied to the plaintiffs). You can read the order here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…



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Image "Defendants argue that they will suffer irreparable harm because the injunction will make it harder for them to seize FRTs—but this assumes (wrongly, in our view) that FRTs are illegal." Image
Nov 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
In less than a week, we've seen the stark reality that the Disarmament Regime wants for all peaceable people.

They get protection from armed, magic-badge-wearing forces, while you are expected to be a defenseless victim.

🧵 Image In New York and LA, people who were able to defend life, family, and property are being treated as hardened criminals and stripped of their rights. At the same time, Biden's daughter's security detail is celebrated for protecting an unoccupied car.
Nov 15, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Remember: there are no friends of liberty amongst the State & its agents.

Your favorite partisan hack is a tyrant-in-waiting that only cares about one thing: expanding State power.

While one group is coming for our guns, others are joining them to take our privacy and anonymity This happens because when a fundamental right is easily violated; it opens the doors for rationalizing the violation of others. Think of some ways the disarmament crowd has armed the anti-privacy crowd:

-Firearm serialization
-Licensing
-Background checks
-Registration

…all remove privacy and anonymity.
Nov 6, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
We are live!

You can listen to the live stream here:
5thcircuit.streamguys1.com/enbanc
Our lawyers start off by tackling the false argument that there is "no right to purchase a gun"

The Judge asks what we want them to do.

Our lawyer plainly states: reverse the incorrect lower court order upholding the ban
Oct 25, 2023 • 35 tweets • 8 min read
Oral Arguments in our Koons v. Platkin NJ Public Carry Bans Lawsuit are starting now.

You can listen to the livestream here:
youtube.com/live/KYD79c6Vy…
The State, being the appealing party, is up first and, right off the bat, says the entire law fits perfectly with Bruen.

A judge immediately notes that the only late-19th-century laws might be analogous.

The State responds that the lack of founding era laws (silence) does not conflict with Bruen.
Oct 19, 2023 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
From the opinion: "The Supreme Court carefully uses the phrase 'dangerous and unusual arms,' while the State, throughout its briefing, refers to 'dangerous [or] unusual arms.' That the State would advocate such a position is disheartening." "The problem is that the alternatives-remain argument has no limiting principle and would justify incremental firearm bans until there is only a single-shot derringer remaining for lawful self-defense. Heller demolished that argument." Image
Sep 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
LEGAL ALERT: The Ninth Circuit has assigned the lawsuit that struck down California's magazine ban to the same en banc panel as before, extended the stay until at least October 10th, and set a briefing schedule. Four judges dissent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…


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Image Judge Bumatay: "Indeed, to my knowledge, no en banc panel of this court has ever handled an emergency administrative stay motion as an initial matter. And the majority cites no precedent otherwise. So I’m left wondering why we rush to do something so unorthodox." Image
Sep 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
ICYMI:

Yesterday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law several anti-rights bills, including the Public Carry Ban, SB 2.

However, no time was wasted, and our Carralero v. Bonta Lawsuit challenging SB 2 was filed before the ink was dry on his signature. Image Only a few hours later, we filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction—a request that the Court halts enforcement of the law on the likelihood that our challenge succeeds.

You can find the complaint and our Motion for Preliminary Injunction here: firearmspolicy.org/carralero
Sep 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The judge tells the governor's lawyer that she has "a hard road to get up" to prevent the carry ban from being enjoined The governor's lawyer says the carry ban is constitutional because you can't tell which legal gun carriers will commit crimes
Aug 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The dissent says that the 3-judge panel opinion "identified a few examples from a now-vacated Third Circuit decision and concluded that felons seem enough like Native Americans, slaves, Catholics, and Loyalists for Congress to disarm them too." The dissent says that if the 3-judge panel is right, "then the government can presumably strip felons of other core constitutional rights too." Image
Aug 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
"Section 134-A(a)(1) as written does not stand for what the State now claims it does." https://t.co/Yzc0hovUCS
Image "At this stage, the State fails to meet its burden in rebutting Plaintiffs' narrow challenge to § 134-A(a)(1). In fact, the State at oral argument conceded to Plaintiffs' position." Image