Montana lawmakers and citizens have led the nation in crafting legislation that would make it difficult for federal gun laws to be enforced in the state…
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Firearms Freedom Act Introduced in New Hampshire House
We told you that Rep. Ed Butler was seeking revenge for the failure of his universal gun registration bill HB 1589. Fortunately for New Hampshire gun owners someone is standing up for our rights…
US Supreme Court Declines to Hear MSSA v. Holder aka ‘Firearms Freedom Act’
The US Supreme Court has declined to accept the State of Montana’s separate petition to validate the principles of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. We’re now at the end of this particular road…
Montana AG submits cert petition in MSSA v. Holder
Attorneys say that this separate cert petition by the State of Montana will significantly improve the chances that the Supreme Court will accept and rule on MSSA v. Holder…
New Idea: The ‘Constitutional Settlements Commission of the States’ Proposed
The Commission provides a way for the states to collectively define the powers the states have surrendered to the federal government in the Constitution…
Montana Plaintiffs Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Validating the Firearms Freedom Act
The Montana Shooting Sports Association, the Second Amendment Foundation and Gary Marbut have appealed MSSA v. Holder to the U.S. Supreme Court…
Ninth Circuit Rules in Firearms Freedom Act Case
This was about as good of a ruling as we could have expected from the Ninth Circuit. We must get to the U.S. Supreme Court to accomplish our goal of overturning 70 years of flawed Supreme Court rulings…
Wisconsin Firearms Freedom Act Introduced
Bill, LRB 2036, would make it illegal for any local or state law enforcement officer to carry out orders from a federal mandate to restrict magazines or other firearm accessories and or ammo…
Montana Firearms Freedom Act, MSSA v. Holder, Update from the Ninth Circuit Court
The three judges from the panel hearing oral arguments in MSSA v. Holder seemed interested in and attentive to the arguments made by MSSA’s counsel and counsel for amicus Goldwater Institute…
Montana Shooters to Challenge AG Holder in Court March 4th 2013
The nation seems to be in the mood to challenge federal power on many fronts. The Supreme Court is certainly aware of these winds of change blowing across America…
Montana Firearms Freedom Act Suit on the Move
FINALLY the Ninth Circuit has scheduled MSSA v. Holder for oral argument on March 4th, in Portland, Oregon…
Montana Shooting Sports Association Lawsuits Update
A couple of you have asked for an update on the lawsuits MSSA is involved in. There are two in process and one maybe in the works…
Gun Group Files Final Brief in Firearms Freedom Case
Montana Shooting Sports Association has filed its final brief before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in MSSA v. Holder litigation…
Why the WA Times Editorial About MSSA v. Holder is Important for the Firearms Freedom Act
The purpose for the Montana Firearms Freedom Act is to use it and firearms as the vehicle to roll back a half-century-plus of bad Commerce Clause judicial precedent…
Final Briefs Filed in Firearms Freedom Act Lawsuit
The last briefs of those supporting our side of MSSA v. Holder have been filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…
Briefs Filed in MSSA v. Holder AKA – Montana Firearms Freedom Act
This is MSSA’s lawsuit to validate the principles of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act…
North Carolina Firearms Freedom Act Introduced
It’s time to stop the cancerous growth of Federal Bureaucracy and HB 241, North Carolina Firearms Freedom Act will help begin to do this…
Firearms Freedom Act Heads to the Ninth Circuit Court on Appeal
The MFFA is designed to test the power of Congress to regulate everything without limits under the narrow power given to Congress in the Constitution to “regulate commerce … among the states.”..
Lawsuit Over Montana-Made Guns Goes to Next Judicial Level
Lawsuit Over Montana-Made Guns Goes to Next Judicial Level MISSOULA, MONT. –-(Ammoland.com)- In MSSA v. Holder, the lawsuit to validate the Montana Firearms Freedom Act (MFFA), plaintiff Montana Shooting Sports Association announced today that it is now free to take this lawsuit to the next judicial level, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. MSSA president […]
Montana Firearms Freedom Act MSSA v. Holder Transcript
The transcript for the 7/15 hearing on the U.S. Motion to Dismiss in MSSA v. Holder is now posted…
Wyoming Gun Owners PAC Endorsements
Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act must be defended and this battle won’t end here, it must be fought on multiple fronts on everything from Obama-Care to intrusive environmental policies…
Alaska Enacts Firearms Freedom Act – 8 States Have Now Passed FFA’s
Alaska becames the 8th state to enact a Firearms Freedom Act…
Will Obama Sign U.N. Gun Control Treaty
U.N. Gun Control treaty is worth keeping an eye on but it is not a current threat…
Anti Gun Group Files Briefs Against Firearms Freedom Act
Both briefs are from entities opposing the MFFA validation, and both concerning the pending U.S. Motion to Dismiss…
Oklahoma Firearms Freedom Act Goes To OK Governor for Signature
Oklahoma Firearms Freedom Act, SB 1685, has passed the legislature and gone to the desk of Governor Brad Henry…
Alaska Firearms Freedom Act Update & 2nd Amendment March Info
Two more states have passed this important legislation while our finance committee has been sitting on it…
Montana Firearms Freedom Act – Amici And Briefs Due Today
It is helpful that so many other states have climbed onto this FFA bandwagon. Six other states have enacted clones of the MFFA and 20 others have introduced FFA bills…
Firearms Freedom Act and the Ninth Amendment
One argument that has been simmering in the background is what effect the Ninth Amendment may have on thwarting federal laws contrary to the MFFA…
Firearms Freedom Act on National Public Radio
As of this month, five states have passed a measure that uses gun rights as a way of repudiating federal authority…
Idaho Firearms Freedom Act Heads to Governors Desk
Idaho Firearms Freedom Act has now passed the Idaho Senate and is on its way to the desk of Governor Butch Otter…