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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
Rhode Island lawmakers have crossed a dangerous new line. After passing a 2025 law banning the sale and transfer of commonly owned semi-automatic firearms—while at least pretending to respect existing…
By Attorney William S. Smith, Princeton, MA Attorney Smith’s Website and Contact Info: Click Here For more than a decade the United States Supreme Court has made one thing clear:…
On March 5, 2026, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals issued a major Second Amendment decision in Benson v. United States, striking down Washington D.C.’s ban on firearm magazines…
Oral Argument in United States v. Hemani (No. 24-1234) On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Hemani, a case that may significantly…
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…
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