WHAT WE DO

FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) works to achieve our strategic objectives through charitable efforts including litigation, research, scholarly publications, amicus briefing, and education. FPCAF also succeeds through our partnership with Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) by providing expert legal oversight to implement FPC Law—the nation’s preeminent public interest legal initiative focused on the right to keep and bear arms.

Please find below a selection of our work:

LITIGATION

This is just some of our active litigation. A full list of FPC Law’s cases is available on FPC’s website here.

Jensen v. ATF

Our Second Amendment challenge to the National Firearms Act.

Elite Precision Customs v. ATF

Our challenge to the federal interstate handgun transfer ban.

Lane v. Cacace

Our challenge to NY’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.”

Sullivan v. Ferguson

Our challenge to Washington state’s ban on so-called "large capacity magazines."

PWGG v. Bonta

Our challenge to California’s ban on firearm purchases by adults under age 21.

Wiese v. Bonta

Our challenge to California’s ban on so-called “large capacity magazines.”

VICTORIES

These are just some of our victories.

Mock v. U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi

July 17, 2025: FPC Law and the federal government agreed to a joint dismissal of the government’s appeal, leaving in place FPC Law’s victory at the district court vacating the federal government’s unlawful rule seeking to treat braced pistols as if they were NFA-regulated short-barreled rifles.

Guedes v. ATF

June 14, 2024: The district court entered judgment in favor of FPC Law, determining that the federal government’s rule treating bump-stocks as if they were machine guns was unlawful.

Linton v. Bonta

February 28, 2024: The district court ruled in favor of FPC Law, striking down the California’s laws and policies preventing peaceable people from exercising their Second Amendment protected rights that were fully restored after their non-violent felony convictions in other states were vacated and nullified.

RESEARCH

The Tradition of Short-Barreled Rifle Use and Regulation in America

25 Wyo. L. Rev. 111 (2025)

Suggests that short-barreled rifles—while longer than handguns and shorter than some rifles and shotguns—are for all constitutional purposes the same as other common, constitutionally protected arms.

The Tradition of Armor Use and Regulation in America

23 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1

Examines the deeply rooted tradition of keeping and wearing armor in America.

The History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900

50 J. Legis. 223 (2024)

Examines all American state, territorial, and colonial laws that prohibited possession or sale of any type of arm. Also covered are English laws before 1776, and the Dutch and Swedish colonies in America.

Disarming the Dangerous: The American Tradition of Firearm Prohibitions

16 Drexel L. Rev. 1 (2024)

Explaining why dangerousness is the touchstone of disarmament laws.

The Right to Train: A Pillar of the Second Amendment

31 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 93 (2022)

Emphasizes that training is a pillar of the right to keep and bear arms because it is required to develop the skills necessary to effectively exercise the other protected rights, such as self-defense, hunting, and militia service.

Red Flag Laws Raise Red Flags Of Their Own

45 Law & Psychol. Rev. 155 (2020-2021)

Analyzing "red flag" laws that permit the confiscation of property and the deprivation of the right to keep and bear arms without due process, if the petitioner can convince the court that the defendant may otherwise commit violence.

The American Tradition of Self-Made Arms

54 St. Mary's L.J. 35 (2023)

Finding that the tradition of building arms for personal use is deeply rooted in American history, and that there is no tradition of regulating self-built arms.

The Historical Justification For Prohibiting Dangerous Persons From Possessing Arms

20 Wyo. L. Rev. 249 (2020)

Finding that there is no tradition of banning peaceable citizens from possessing firearms.