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By Premiere Massachusetts Firearms Attorney & Gun Rights Lawyer for LTC FID Denials & Suspensions, William S. Smith- Go To ATTORNEYSMITHLAW.COM or Call (774) 364-1754 holdenattorney@gmail.com
NOTE: NONE OF THE CONTENT IN THIS SITE IS LEGAL ADVICE. PLEASE CONTACT ATTORNEY SMITH OR ANOTHER ATTORNEY FOR SUCH ADVICE AND/OR REPRESENTATION
On January 28, 2026 Senator Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor and—of all things—invoked the Second Amendment as a rhetorical shield. He said: “The President seems to have forgotten…
The shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last week has sparked a fierce national debate — but too often the focus has drifted away from the real issue: Whether Americans…
Yesterday—January 20, 2026—the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in Wolford v. Lopez (No. 24-1046), a case about a government trying to flip the default rule of liberty into a default…
The US Supreme Court’s oral arguments today in Wolford v. Lopez made one thing unmistakably clear to me: Hawaii’s so-called “consent” regime for carry is not a neutral property rule.…
On January 2, 2026, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2–1) held unconstitutional California’s “urban open-carry ban”—a rule that effectively prohibited open carry…
Some Observations by a Massachusetts Second Amendment Attorney When the United States Supreme Court handed down New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen in June 2022, it was…
Date: November 13, 2025 The right to keep and bear arms is under constant pressure from laws that purport to promote “public safety” but end up undermining self-defense, individual liberties,…
When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Worcester Police Chief v. Holden in 2015 declared that, “The prefatory clause of the Second Amendment (‘well regulated Militia’) anticipates some regulation,” it…
SCOTUS has agreed to hear two brand-new 2A cases. Here is why Bay State gun owners should care. The Two Grants 1) Wolford v. Lopez (Hawaii “private property consent” &…
When an OUI (called DUI or DWI in some other states) conviction implicates your gun rights: what the Erler case shows In the October 10, 2025 the Massachusetts Appeals Court…
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