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Friday, December 12, 2025

Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the St. Lucie County State Attorney’s Office and the Sheriff of St. Lucie County, representing the State of Florida, reached a settlement with Gun Owners Foundation and Gun Owners of America in GOA v. Del Toro. The lawsuit, filed in August 2024, challenged Florida’s open carry ban.

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Friday, October 31, 2025

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a reply brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. ATF, SAF’s challenge to the federal ban that prevents adults under 21 years old from purchasing handguns from licensed dealers. The brief was filed in response to the government’s request to delay Brown until two other Second Amendment cases recently granted certiorari are heard by the High Court.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Tuesday, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a brief countering the federal government’s argument that, if FPC is successful in striking down the law, the court should enter an extremely narrow injunction that would deny millions of peaceable people their right to keep and bear arms.

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