September 08, 2026
The Third Circuit on Tuesday held that the National Shooting Sports Foundation can challenge New Jersey's law allowing the state to sue firearms manufacturers for endangering public safety, also reversing a lower court's decision to put the case on hold.
June 02, 2026
The Third Circuit on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the state of New Jersey's position that The National Shooting Sports Foundation still lacked standing as it tries to renew its challenge of a Garden State law allowing it to sue gunmakers for endangering public safety, questioning what exactly is impermissible under broad statutory language like "unreasonable" conduct.
July 11, 2025
A New Jersey federal judge has put the National Shooting Sports Foundation's lawsuit against the Garden State on hold, finding that the group's challenges to a state law — holding gunmakers and sellers liable for crimes committed with their products — are also being raised by one of its members in a related state enforcement action.
March 25, 2025
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is pushing a New Jersey federal court to reopen its case challenging a law that would hold firearms manufacturers and sellers liable for crimes by people who have bought their guns, accusing the Garden State's attorney general of "hoodwinking" the Third Circuit two years ago in promising not to enforce the law.
June 07, 2023
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office on Wednesday implored the Third Circuit to allow the passage of a law that would hold firearms manufacturers and sellers liable for nuisance crimes stemming from the sale and marketing of guns, arguing that the prospective law is not unfairly burdensome.
April 07, 2023
New Jersey's new gun nuisance law should not have been blocked by a lower court's injunction, the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey argued in a Thursday amicus brief to the Third Circuit, taking the Garden State attorney general's side against a gun group.
March 03, 2023
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin can't stay an injunction on a law allowing the state to sue gunmakers for endangering public safety, a federal judge held Friday, finding that the AG's case rested on arguments previously raised.
February 01, 2023
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin cannot enforce the Garden State's new law allowing it to sue gunmakers for endangering public safety, according to a federal judge's order blocking him from doing so while a firearms trade group challenges the statute.