Most Popular Gun Liability Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Gun Makers Lose Appeal of New York Law Making Them Potentially Liable for Shootings
Jul 11 2025 // A New York state law holding gun manufacturers potentially liable when their weapons are used in deadly shootings was upheld Thursday by a federal appeals court. The ruling Thursday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
#2 Ohio Bill Seeks to Prohibit Mandating Firearm Liability Insurance
Dec 13 2024 // A bill making its way through the Ohio General Assembly would prohibit requiring firearm liability insurance. Senate Bill 58 passed the House by a 61-27 vote and now heads to the Ohio Senate, where legislators in the...
#3 New Jersey, Minnesota Sue Glock Over Firearms With Adaptable Switches
Dec 16 2024 // NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey and Minnesota sued Glock last Thursday, calling on the gunmaker to stop selling firearms that can be adapted with dime-sized switches to fire up to 1,200 rounds a minute. New Jersey...
#4 New York Court Rules NRA Must Undertake Reforms, Former Execs Must Pay Damages
Dec 13 2024 // The National Rifle Association (NRA) must reform its operations to conform with New York’s not-for-profit law and two of its former executives must pay the NRA $6.35 million in damages plus interest. That is the...
#5 Supreme Court Leans Toward Gun Companies’ Bid to Avoid Mexico’s Trafficking Lawsuit
Mar 4 2025 // U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled sympathy on Tuesday toward a bid by two American gun companies to throw out the Mexican government’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding illegal firearms trafficking to drug cartels...
#6 Gun-Owning New Hampshire Teen Sues School Officials Who Searched His Truck
Oct 20 2025 // A New Hampshire teenager sued his former high school principal and others Thursday, alleging they illegally searched his truck based solely on his status as a gun owner. Jack Harrington, 18, graduated from...
#7 Supreme Court Spares US Gun Companies From Mexico’s lawsuit
Jun 6 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday spared two American gun companies from a lawsuit by Mexico’s government accusing them of aiding illegal firearms trafficking to drug cartels and fueling gun violence in the southern...
#8 Judge Dismisses Suit Over Savannah Outlawing Guns Left in Unlocked Cars
Dec 4 2024 // SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a Georgia gun owner who sought to challenge a Savannah city ordinance that imposes fines and potential jail time for people who leave firearms inside unlocked...
#9 After FSU Shooting, Students Call on Lawmakers to Block Lower Gun-Buying Age
Apr 24 2025 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Student survivors of last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University urged state legislators Tuesday to block an effort to reverse a law passed after the 2018 Parkland school...
#10 Baltimore Sues Glock Over Handguns Easily Converted to Automatic Weapons
Feb 14 2025 // Baltimore is suing gunmaker Glock over design features that allow its handguns to be easily modified to become fully automatic weapons, which enables criminals to inflict more damage and makes the city more dangerous,...
#11 New Jersey’s Ban on Guns in Sensitive Places Upheld; Insurance Mandate Nixed Again
Sep 12 2025 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a New Jersey law that barred carrying firearms in so-called sensitive places like schools and public gatherings. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 139-page opinion,...
#12 Judge Dismisses Texas Attorney General’s Lawsuit Over State Fair Gun Restrictions
Jul 3 2025 // A Dallas County district judge dismissed state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s suit against the State Fair of Texas and the City of Dallas, for gun restrictions that were enacted following a 2023 shooting that injured...
#13 Minnesota Governor to Call Special Session on Gun Laws After School Shooting
Sep 5 2025 // Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz plans to call a special legislative session to consider tougher gun laws following a shooting last week at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that left two children dead and 21 people injured. The...
#14 Some States Require Public Schools to Teach Kids About Gun Safety
Nov 12 2025 // This school year, students in elementary, middle and high schools in some states will get a new lesson on safety: what to do if they find a firearm. Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah are the first states to enact laws that...
#15 Federal Judge Upholds Rhode Island’s Gun Permit System for Open Carry
Aug 7 2025 // A federal judge says Rhode Island’s gun permit system, which requires residents to show “a need” to openly carry a firearm throughout the state, does not violate the Second Amendment. In a ruling handed...
#16 Rare Bipartisan Push for Ban on Machine Gun Conversion in Alabama
Feb 14 2025 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A bipartisan coalition of mayors, lawmakers and law enforcement in Alabama endorsed a public safety package on Thursday that would ban the devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine...
#17 Court Upholds New York’s Gun Restrictions, Including Times Square and Subway Bans
Sep 22 2025 // No guns for Elmo, Spider-Man or anyone else in New York’s Times Square — and don’t try sneaking them into the subway, either. That is the decision last Friday from a federal appeals court effectively...
#18 Congress Shielded Gun Firms From Lawsuits. Some Blue States Eye Loophole
Oct 30 2025 // Two decades after a Republican-controlled Congress gave gun manufacturers immunity from being sued over crimes committed with their firearms, blue state Democrats upset about gun violence think they’ve found a way to...
#19 Minnesota’s Political Divide Stalls Gun Control Efforts
Sep 29 2025 // As Minnesota mourned a mass shooting at a church that left two schoolchildren dead and 21 people injured, Gov. Tim Walz promised to call a special session for the Legislature to pass solutions to gun violence and school...
#20 Alabama Lawmakers Approve Ban on Machine-Gun Conversion Devices
Mar 20 2025 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns, after a deadly year that included multiple mass...
