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WATCH: CGF and Alan Gura Take on California's Handgun Roster at the Ninth Circuit


BREAKING: CGF Files Appeal in Pro-Gun Lawsuit to Fight Anti-Gun DOJ Policy

Just a few minutes ago, our lawyers filed the opening brief in our important pro-gun lawsuit Doe, et al. v. Attorney General Xavier Becerra, et al.

Put simply, this lawsuit challenges the California DOJ's absurd position that it can make up the law whenever, and however, it wants.


CGF, Others Seek Review by Full 9th Circuit Court in Major Second Amendment Lawsuit Challenging California Gun Waiting Period Laws

SAN FRANCISCO (February 13, 2017)­­­­­­ – Today, attorneys for The Calguns Foundation (CGF), Second Amendment Foundation, and two individual plaintiffs filed a petition with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking en banc (full-court) review of a wrongly-decided opinion that overturned the trial court’s judgment that California’s Waiting Period Laws violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.  

CGF Executive Director Brandon Combs, who is also an individual plaintiff in the case, issued the following statement:


CGF REPORT: DOJ’s Handgun Roster is Nothing But An Incremental Gun Ban

We’ve all heard the metaphor about boiling a frog: If you put the frog directly into boiling water, it will jump out. But if you put the frog in cool water and slowly turn up the heat, eventually the water will boil and the frog will die.

That’s the tactic the State of California and its Department of Justice are using to implement a sweeping handgun ban, through the Unsafe Handgun Act and related “microstamping” requirement laws, against the law-abiding people in the most populated state in the nation.


SF Chronicle: Local gun shop regulation to have its day in court

The Ninth Circuit announced Tuesday that the opposition in CGF's Second Amendment challenge, Teixeira v. County of Alamedawill be granted a new hearing over whether the Second Amendment protects the commerce of firearms. Judges made decided in a 2-1 ruling that the Second Amendment does protect the right to purchase firearms earlier this year before a federal judge dismissed the case.