WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 9, 2025) — Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), joined by National Rifle Association, FPC Action Foundation, and Second Amendment Foundation, today filed a critical brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Zherka v. Bondi, urging the Court to strike down the federal ban that permanently disarms peaceable Americans for nonviolent offenses.
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In their brief, FPC and its allies argue that there “is no tradition of disarming peaceable citizens” like the petitioner.
“Historically, nonviolent criminals—including nonviolent felons—who did not demonstrate a propensity for violence retained the ability to exercise their right to keep and bear arms.” Indeed, they noted, “some laws expressly allowed or even required them to keep and bear arms. Certiorari should be granted to establish that the Second Amendment forbids the disarmament of peaceable Americans.”
“The government has no authority to forever strip people of their constitutional rights for a nonviolent offense. That dangerous notion turns guaranteed freedoms into government-granted privileges. The Supreme Court must take this case and affirm once and for all that peaceable Americans have an inviolable right to keep and bear arms,” said FPC President Brandon Combs.
The petition explains: “This case provides a good vehicle for this Court to definitively resolve whether Section 922(g)(1) is susceptible to as-applied challenges because unlike many of the courts that have come out the wrong way on this issue, the panel below attempted to apply Bruen. The ways in which it erred in doing so are representative of other errors the lower courts have made and on which this Court’s guidance is critically important.” It went on to say that Supreme Court guidance was needed to resolve “an entrenched circuit split.”
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About FPC
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) — a 501(c)(4) nonprofit membership organization — exists to create a world of maximal individual liberty, defend constitutional rights, and restore the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. FPC pursues these goals through strategic litigation, legal scholarship, amicus briefing, legislative and regulatory advocacy, grassroots activism, education, and outreach. FPC’s legal arm, FPC Law, is the nation’s leading initiative dedicated to restoring the right to keep and bear arms across the United States. To learn more about FPC’s lawsuits and pro–Second Amendment efforts, sign up for FPC news alerts at firearmspolicy.org and follow FPC on X, Instagram, and Facebook.
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