Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has issued Secretarial Order 3447 – Expanding Hunting and Fishing Access, Removing Unnecessary Barriers, and Ensuring Consistency Across the Department of Interior Lands and Waters. This sets a department-wide policy that “public and federally managed lands should be open to hunting and fishing unless a specific, documented, and legally supported exception applies.”

An Ohio appeals court cited the Second Amendment in December, when it affirmed a county judge’s dismissal of an indictment of a Dayton woman who was not yet 21 years old when she was arrested on firearms charges based solely on her age.

The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued a groundbreaking memorandum opinion Jan. 15, concluding that 18 U.S.C. § 1715, the nearly century-old federal statute prohibiting the mailing of concealable firearms, is unconstitutional as applied to constitutionally protected arms, such as handguns.

Update: The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments, which can be found in audio form and in transcript form (both linked in this article). This Second Amendment case out of Hawaii could set precedent nationwide if the new state law is allowed to stand.

John Lott, PhD, and Crime Prevention Research Center senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than Americans. Here are the facts.

Since COVID-era uncertainty began, millions of Americans have bought firearms, many for the first time. Critics insisted that more guns in private hands would inevitably mean a national slide into a modern “Wild West.” The most recent national and city-level data don’t support that claim.

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to announce Jim Samuel as our new legislative affairs director. Samuel is a policy professional, with more than 30 years of experience working with legislators and leaders at the Ohio Statehouse.

A respected, self-published Second Amendment author reports that Amazon no longer allows new copies of his books to be sold, only used ones, directly denying him to be compensated for his work.

In 1999, the city of Gary, Indiana, launched its lawsuit against handgun manufacturers, retailers, and a wholesaler, raising claims of public nuisance, negligent design, negligent distribution, marketing, and failure to warn. On Dec. 29, 2025, a unanimous Indiana Court of Appeals remanded the case to a lower court with instructions to dismiss after finding that a 2024 Indiana law barred the city from proceeding.

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