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Rifles and shotguns on sale at a Virginia gun store in July 2022
Gun Law
Jake Fogleman

Analysis: Judges Show Limited Appetite for Upending Background Check Regimes [Member Exclusive]

Following the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, Second Amendment jurisprudence is more unsettled than it has perhaps ever been. However, judges thus far appear skeptical of disrupting at least one realm of gun law: background check requirements.
Even in novel formats, background check requirements have largely escaped falling victim to the text, history, and tradition …

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The Reload Analysis Newsletter
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Stephen Gutowski

Members' Newsletter: Conservative Court Upholds 'Enhanced' Background Checks

This week, we saw an unexpected ruling out of the Fifth Circuit. A panel in the nation’s most conservative federal circuit upheld the brand new “enhanced” background check process from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It did so by essentially sidestepping the Bruen test.
Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman argues the ruling is evidence even …

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Gun Politics
Stephen Gutowski

Analysis: A Sign NRA Members Are Fed Up [Member Exclusive]

The National Rifle Association’s board election results came in this week, and they provide pretty good evidence for how the group’s membership is reacting to its current ordeal.
Every candidate who explicitly ran on replacing current leadership and instituting significant internal reforms was elected, according to results published in the NRA’s American …

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Newsletters
Stephen Gutowski

Newsletter: Biden Admin Goes After Gun Exports

This week, another federal gun rule that we first published a leaked draft of officially came to light. The Commerce Department dropped its final rule on firearm export licenses. It adds new restrictions to the export process and even forces American companies to collect passports or IDs of foreigners they export guns to, including in …

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A line of handguns for sale at a Pennsylvania gun store during April 2023
Gun Law
Jake Fogleman

Fifth Circuit Upholds ‘Enhanced’ Gun Background Checks for Young Adults

Placing additional background check requirements and delays on 18-20-year-old gun buyers does not run afoul of the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
A three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled against challengers who took issue with the “enhanced” background check provisions of the 2022 …

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Gun Politics
Jake Fogleman

Analysis: Nixing Credit Card Codes is the Latest Gun-Rights Policy Trend [Member Exclusive]

Financial privacy measures have quickly become one of the fastest-spreading policy successes of the gun-rights movement.
Just this past week alone, three more Republican-led states enacted laws restricting the use of specialty merchant category codes (MCCs) for gun and ammunition stores. The Governors of Iowa, Tennessee, and Georgia signed bills with nearly …

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