At the moment, Chief Counsel Joshua Prince of the Firearms Business Consulting Group and Adam Kraut of Second Modification Basis filed a monumental lawsuit in opposition to Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris involving his legal guidelines, laws, insurance policies, and practices that preclude sheriffs within the Commonwealth from issuing licenses to hold firearms to candidates who’re 18-to-20 years of age; thereby subjecting 18-to-20-year-olds to the draconian carry and transportation restrictions present in 18 Pa.C.S. 6106 and 6108. The case is Brown, et al. v. PSP Commissioner Paris, 1:24-cv-01015-CCC.
Because the Third Circuit has already held in our earlier case – Lara v. Comm’r Pennsylvania State Police, 91 F.4th 122, 137 (3d Cir. 2024) – that the Second Modification applies to 18-to-20-year-olds and that no “proof of founding-era laws helps Pennsylvania’s restriction on 18-to-20-year-olds’ Second Modification rights,” a movement for a short lived restraining order and preliminary injunction have been concurrently filed.
Because the case develops, we are going to proceed to supply updates.
In case your state or federal constitutional rights have been violated, contact FICG right now to debate your choices.
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Revealed by Joshua Prince, Esq.
With our 2nd Modification rights being attacked at each the Federal and State stage, and the ATF (Burea of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) making an attempt to shut down FFLs (Federal Firearms Licensees) for minor infractions whereas making FFLs the scapegoat when the ATF’s data are inaccurate, I need to take this chance to introduce myself. I’m considered one of solely a handful of attorneys throughout the US that practices within the area of interest space of regulation generally known as firearms regulation. I made a decision to pay attention my authorized apply on firearms regulation not solely as a result of I’m a shooter and firearms fanatic, but additionally to make sure that our inalienable Proper to Maintain and Bear Arms is rarely encroached upon.
I deal with instances on the Federal and State stage for each FFLs and people. On the federal and state ranges for people, I actively defend the 2nd Modification of the US Structure and Part 21 of the PA Structure, in addition to, assist people with:
– License to Carry Firearms Denials;
– Challenges to Misguided PICS Denials;
– Aid from Firearms Disabilities;
– Property Planning Recommendation;
– Gun/NFA Trusts; and
– 42 USC 1983 Actions for Deprivation of Civil Rights
At each the state and federal ranges, I symbolize FFLs and SOTs all through Pennsylvania and the US concerning:
– ATF Compliance Inspections;
– Warning Letters and Hearings;
– FFL Revocations;
– Company Construction Recommendation
– Indoor/Out of doors Vary Implementation; and
– Forfeiture Proceedings
In following my love for firearms and firearms regulation, I’ve taught a number of Persevering with Authorized Schooling (CLE) seminars on Firearms in Estates and Trusts and Firearms Regulation 101 for a number of Bar Associations, together with Berks, Cumberland, and Dauphin Counties. I additionally deliberate and taught a number of Firearms in Estates CLE courses for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI).
Whereas at Widener Regulation Faculty, I used to be a member of the Widener Regulation Journal. I wrote an article on the Inaccuracy of the Nationwide Firearms Registration and Switch Report (NFRTR). I additionally had an article revealed on Payment Disputes in Staff Compensation instances within the Widener Regulation Journal, Quantity 18, No. 2.
You’ll be able to typically discover me posting on a number of web boards, together with Subguns, Uzitalk, AR15, and PAFOA. I additionally maintain PA Firearms Regulation courses for native ranges to tell the general public on the firearm legal guidelines of the Commonwealth.
Following in my father’s footsteps, I’m additionally a Board member for the Pottstown Police Athletic League (PAL).
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