Ever have someone find out how many guns you own, then ask why you think you need so many guns? You may not even have that many, but if it’s more than one, you somehow have too many. After all, they might say, you can only shoot one gun at a time.
To that, I reply, “Yeah, then explain two-gun mojo, baby.” I’ll also point out that how many I can shoot is irrelevant when it comes to the matter of rights.
What’s interesting, though, is that many of these same people think gun rationing is a sensible policy. It’s not, and if the Firearms Policy Coalition gets its way, it’ll be a thing of the past.
irearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today that it and its co-plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment in Struck v. Davenport, asking the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey to declare the State’s “one-gun-a-month” handgun purchase ban unconstitutional and permanently enjoin its enforcement. This move comes after FPC was successful in striking down California’s similar law—the first time the Ninth Circuit issued a final judgment striking down a law as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
FPC’s motion argues that the case is straightforward under the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment precedents. The constitutional text protects the right to “keep and bear Arms,” and courts across the country have recognized that the right necessarily protects the ability to acquire firearms. Because the plaintiffs seek to acquire handguns for lawful purposes, the motion argues that their conduct is presumptively protected and New Jersey bears the burden of proving that its restriction is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.
The FPC motion also points to FPC’s landmark victory in Nguyen v. Bonta, where the Ninth Circuit struck down California’s substantially similar one-gun-a-month restriction. The Ninth Circuit held that the Second Amendment protects both possession of multiple firearms and the ability to acquire firearms without meaningful constraints, concluding that the historical record did not establish even a “historical cousin” for California’s law. The Ninth Circuit entered final judgment against California’s one-gun-a-month law in 2025. The brief also points to other FPC victories, like Reese v. ATF, to show how the New Jersey law fails.
“The Second Amendment protects ‘Arms’—plural. The government has no constitutional authority to ration the People’s rights and politicians do not get to decide how many protected arms peaceable people may acquire in a month. We already defeated California’s similar ban, and now we are asking the court to eliminate New Jersey’s version of the same unconstitutional scheme,” said FPC President Brandon Combs.
As usual, I agree with Combs.
I’m just going to tell you not to get your hopes up. This is just part of the legal process, and while a summary judgment would be great, the reality is that it’s unlikely to happen. I’ve seen dozens of filings like this, and they’re not often granted.
But you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take, so go for it, guys.
And this is a case that needs to be won, because gun rationing schemes are common enough for anti-gunners, and they accomplish absolutely nothing. Hell, Virginia had a gun rationing law in place when the Virginia Tech killer bought his two handguns. He just waited a month for the second. That’s it.
Meanwhile, criminals aren’t buying guns from the local store; they’re stealing them or buying them on the black market. Even those who might be carrying out straw buys aren’t really impacted, because it was never a living for them, just a part-time gig. Criminals can just use more than one straw buyer, if need be.
Nothing about these laws rises to the level of actual common sense, so they need to be struck down.
The FPC’s case boils down to the constitutional arguments, as it should, because those should matter first and foremost. The fact that believing these laws work is a sign of mental deficiency is yet another reason they should be struck down, even absent the constitutional facts.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their extreme gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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