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LOS ANGELES – NFL veteran Denzel Perryman, a linebacker for the Los Angeles Chargers, was arrested last night in the Los Angeles area for exercising his constitutionally protected rights, according to TMZ. As reported by the outlet, “the NFL player was picked up by the South Los Angeles Sheriff’s Station officers Friday evening and booked on a felony charge of possessing an assault weapon.”

In response, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) noted that California’s ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ was declared unconstitutional in October 2023 in FPC’s Miller v. Bonta case. However, the district court’s injunction has been stayed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has often used questionable maneuvers to prevent pro–Second Amendment decisions from taking effect.

FPC says that Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman should put an end to the County’s enforcement of the ban. “District Attorney Hochman should dismiss the charges against Mr. Perryman, and everyone else affected by this unconstitutional and immoral law,” said FPC President Brandon Combs. “Law enforcement should not be putting people in cages for exercising their fundamental rights. This insanity must end, and it must end now.” Read more

BELLEVUE, Wash. —— Today, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), American Suppressor Association (ASA), National Rifle Association (NRA), Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Prime Protection STL Tactical Boutique, and two members of the organizations filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). The case, Brown v. ATF, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Until President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), the NFA established a $200 tax and tax-enforcement registration regime on certain classes of firearms, including suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and NFA-defined “any other weapons.” With the elimination of this excise tax in the OBBB, the joint complaint alleges that the NFA registration regime is no longer justifiable as an exercise of Congress’s taxing power, nor any other Article I power.

The lawsuit also asserts that the NFA’s registration regime for suppressors and short-barreled rifles violates the Second Amendment. Read more

ST. LOUIS — Today, the Firearms Policy Coalition announced a major new lawsuit, Brown v. ATF, challenging the federal National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934. FPC is joined in the case by two individuals and one retailer, as well as the American Suppressor Association, National Rifle Association, and Second Amendment Foundation. Key case documents for the lawsuit are available at firearmspolicy.org/brown.

This important case challenges the NFA on two separate grounds. First, the plaintiffs claim, the NFA exceeds the limited, enumerated powers granted to Congress in Article I of the Constitution. Moreover, they say, the NFA also violates the right to keep and bear arms protected under the Second Amendment. The challengers are seeking a declaratory judgment and an injunction against the government’s enforcement of the NFA with respect to some NFA firearms which are now untaxed due to the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Brown closely follows FPC’s recently filed challenge to New Jersey’s ban on so-called “short-barreled rifles” in FPC v. Platkin, as well as its challenge to the NFA’s suppressor regulations in United States v. Peterson, and the end of the Biden ATF pistol brace ban rule that was vacated through FPC’s Mock v. Garland case.

“The National Firearms Act isn’t just unconstitutional, it’s a tyrannical abomination,” said Firearms Policy Coalition President Brandon Combs. “Not only does the NFA violate your Second Amendment rights, but Congress never had the lawful authority to pass it in the first place. Read more