{"id":111863,"date":"2025-08-28T17:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111863"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:47:40","slug":"111863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111863","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearmspolicy.org\/fpc-blasts-fifth-circuits-flawed-suppressor-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FPC Blasts Fifth Circuit\u2019s Flawed Suppressor Ruling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW ORLEANS\u00a0<\/strong>(August 27, 2025) \u2013 Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today condemned a badly flawed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.nationbuilder.com\/firearmspolicycoalition\/pages\/10472\/attachments\/original\/1756326760\/2025.08.27_151-1_OPINION.pdf?1756326760\">decision<\/a>\u00a0issued by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearmspolicy.org\/peterson\"><em>United States v. George Peterson<\/em><\/a>, an FPC-backed criminal appeal challenging the federal government\u2019s unconstitutional National Firearms Act (NFA) firearm suppressor rules:<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the Fifth Circuit has wrongly upheld the National Firearms Act in a dangerously flawed opinion that tramples the Constitution and disregards our nation\u2019s history. Suppressors are unquestionably \u201carms\u201d under the plain text of the Second Amendment. Nothing in our nation\u2019s history of arms regulation supports the government\u2019s unconstitutional taxation and registration mandates. Indeed, the federal government\u2019s NFA scheme is not just dangerous to liberty, it is blatantly unconstitutional. FPC will continue to stand with Mr. Peterson and his counsel as they weigh every option in the fight ahead to put an end to the NFA and its unconstitutional regulations on suppressors and other protected arms. Individuals who would like to support Mr. Peterson\u2019s appeal, our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearmspolicy.org\/brown\"><em>Brown v. ATF<\/em><\/a>\u00a0NFA challenge, and dozens of important cases to eliminate unconstitutional federal, state, and local laws should join our FPC Grassroots Army at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/joinfpc.org\/\">JoinFPC.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FPC Blasts Fifth Circuit\u2019s Flawed Suppressor Ruling NEW ORLEANS\u00a0(August 27, 2025) \u2013 Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today condemned a badly flawed\u00a0decision\u00a0issued by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in\u00a0United States v. George Peterson, an FPC-backed criminal appeal challenging the federal government\u2019s unconstitutional National Firearms Act (NFA) firearm suppressor rules: Once again, the Fifth Circuit has wrongly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-crap-for-brains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111864,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111863\/revisions\/111864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}