Top 10 Posts of the Year for 2025

While some may have expected things to slow down in the Second Amendment area after two major decisions in quick succession in 2022 and 2024 (Bruen and Rahimi), courts continue to struggle with the history-and-tradition test as applied to all manner of modern gun restrictions.  And the Supreme Court is now prepared to weigh in again in two new cases, the highest number of Second Amendment cases it has ever had pending at the same time in the modern era.  We’ve covered these cases and other major developments in the courts and the policy world on the blog over the past year.

Below are our top ten most-read blog posts published in 2025 (based on viewership from January 1, 2025 through December 10, 2025):

1.   Trump’s Latest Executive Order on Firearms, Kevin Schascheck (February 21, 2025)

2.   An Update on Legal Challenges to the Pistol Brace Rule, Andrew Willinger (April 25, 2025)

3.   Will the Trump DOJ Reverse Course in Major Gun Cases?, Andrew Willinger (February 19, 2025)

4.   Why Did Luigi Mangione Invoke Self-Defense?, Rafi Reznik (January 8, 2025)

5.   New York and Nonresident Carry, Leo Bernabei (March 19, 2025)

6.   An Update on Challenges to State Assault Weapon and Magazine Bans, Andrew Touma (June 27, 2025)

7.   GrabAGun: The Second Amendment, Apprentice Style, Andrew Willinger (January 15, 2025)

8.   What’s at Stake in Hemani? Supreme Court Grants Cert to Review Federal Restriction on Drug Users, Alison Riddoch (October 21, 2025)

9.   What’s at Stake in Wolford? Supreme Court Grants Cert to Review Hawaii’s Sensitive Places Law, Drew Adams (October 6, 2025)

10.  Which Military Veterans are Actually Prohibited Possessors under the Gun Control Act?, Dyllan Taxman (March 14, 2025)