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		<title>FPC Sues Pennsylvania Again: Second Amendment Rights Don&#8217;t Start at 21</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After defeating Pennsylvania’s age-based carry restrictions in the Third Circuit, FPC and NRA return to federal court to challenge the Commonwealth’s ban on licensed carry by 18-to-20-year-old adults. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today that it filed a new federal Second Amendment lawsuit, Maines v. Bethel, challenging Pennsylvania&#8217;s unconstitutional ban on lawful firearm carry in most public places by adults]]></description>
		
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		<title>NSSF Seeks Injunction to Block New Mexico&#8217;s Seven-Day Waiting Period Law While Being Challenged</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, filed a preliminary injunction motion with the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, seeking to block enforcement of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham&#8217;s law requiring a seven-day &#8220;cooling-off&#8221; waiting period to take legal possession of a lawfully purchased firearm after the buyer has passed a federally mandated National Instant Criminal Background Check]]></description>
		
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		<title>Opposition Governments File Briefs with Supreme Court in SAF&#8217;s &#8216;Assault Weapons&#8217; Ban Challenges</title>
		<link>https://thinkingafield.org/2026/10/opposition-governments-file-briefs-with-supreme-court-in-safs-assault-weapons-ban-challenges.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The opposition in Second Amendment Foundation&#8217;s (SAF) challenges to so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; bans has filed their opening briefs with the Supreme Court laying out why their bans meet the demands of the Constitution. This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear SAF&#8217;s two cases – Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins – challenging bans on commonly owned]]></description>
		
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		<title>FPC to Fifth Circuit: Colonial Executions Can&#8217;t Justify Lifetime Gun Bans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today that it filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief with the en banc (full-court) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Cordova, urging the court to reject an erroneous legal theory used to justify federal lifetime gun bans and recognize that Americans cannot be permanently disarmed merely because]]></description>
		
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		<title>SAF, NRA File Amicus Challenging Lifetime Firearms Ban for Nonviolent Felons</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association have filed an amicus brief in United States v. Cordova, urging the Fifth Circuit to adopt a dangerousness standard to challenges of lifetime federal firearms bans. The case returns to the Fifth Circuit after the court granted rehearing en banc and vacated the panel opinion. The brief filed today urges the court]]></description>
		
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		<title>SAF, Partners Challenge New Mexico&#8217;s Firearms Purchase Waiting Period</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a new lawsuit in New Mexico challenging the state&#8217;s &#8220;cooling off&#8221; waiting period for firearms purchases. In 2024, New Mexico enacted House Bill 129 which forces firearms purchasers to wait out a multi-day waiting period before taking possession of a firearm despite having already been approved through the state&#8217;s background]]></description>
		
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		<title>FPC to D.C. Circuit: Gun Owners Shouldn&#8217;t Have to Risk Prison to Challenge Gun Bans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FPC files appeal brief and seeks full-court review to overturn second-class legal standard blocking challenges to D.C.’s ban on common firearm magazines. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today that it filed an opening brief and a petition for initial hearing en banc in its Wehr-Darroca v. District of Columbia appeal, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit]]></description>
		
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		<title>ATF Opens the Door for Every American</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – In August, we celebrated one of the most impactful victories directly affecting suppressor ownership since the NFA was enacted in 1934. On October 9, the celebration returned following ATF&#8217;s announcement that it will no longer enforce the NFA&#8217;s requirements regarding making or transferring suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs) and &#8220;any other weapons&#8221; (AOWs).]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another FPC Win: Third Circuit Strikes Down Federal Lifetime Gun Ban Over DUI in FPC-Backed Challenge to Gun Control Act</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today a major victory in the FPC-supported case of Williams v. Blanche, where the en banc (full-court) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the district court&#8217;s summary judgment holding that the federal government cannot constitutionally impose its lifetime gun ban on Edward Williams because of his decades-old, nonviolent DUI conviction. Williams was]]></description>
		
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		<title>SAF Fact Sheet Refutes Anti-Gun Rhetoric and Predictions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has compiled a new fact sheet refuting 85 documented claims from anti-gun groups, advocates and public officials who stated pro-Second Amendment court rulings and reforms would produce more shootings, more deaths and immediate surges in violence. FBI data and other sources instead show three consecutive years of declining murder rates (-9.1% in]]></description>
		
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