Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC)
- November 30, 2012
- a 501(c)4 grassroots, non-partisan, public benefit organization.
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- To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the People’s rights, privileges and immunities deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition, especially the inalienable, fundamental, and individual right to keep and bear arms;
- To protect, defend, and advance the means and methods by which the People of the United States may exercise those rights, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, collection, transportation, exhibition, carry, care, use, and disposition of arms for all lawful purposes, including, but not limited to, self-defense, hunting, and service in the appropriate militia for the common defense of the Republic and the individual liberty of its citizens;
- To foster and promote the shooting sports and all lawful uses of arms; and
- To foster and promote awareness of, and public engagement in, all of the above.
Firearms Policy Coalition
970 Reserve Drive, Suite 111
Roseville, CA 95678
Brandon Combs
– Dec 2012 Founded Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC)
– https://www.firearmspolicy.org/
Craig DeLuz
About Firearms Policy Coalition
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) is a California-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit membership organization led by president Brandon Combs. It has grown from a grassroots California group into one of the most active Second Amendment litigation organizations in the country. Its legal arm, FPC Law, describes itself as the nation’s first and largest public interest legal team focused on the right to keep and bear arms, and its affiliated FPC Action Foundation represents plaintiffs in many of its cases. FPC is funded mainly by small individual donors, with some corporate support.
Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, FPC has filed suits against states it argues have failed to follow that ruling, including challenges to New York’s carry restrictions, California’s sensitive-places law and Oregon’s Measure 114. Its best-known federal win came in Mock v. Garland, the challenge to the ATF’s pistol stabilizing brace rule: Judge Reed O’Connor vacated the rule in June 2024, and in 2025 the Justice Department dropped its appeal, ending the rule. FPC was also among the challengers to the ATF frame-and-receiver rule in VanDerStok.
Key Facts
- 2020: Litigated against state and local COVID-19 closures of gun stores
- November 2022: Federal judges found New York’s presumptive ban on carry on private property unconstitutional in FPC-backed litigation
- August 2023: Fifth Circuit ruled for FPC’s side at the preliminary stage in Mock v. Garland
- June 13, 2024: Judge Reed O’Connor vacated the ATF pistol brace rule in Mock v. Garland
- 2025: The government dropped its appeal in Mock v. Bondi, ending the brace rule
Learn More
Sources
- Firearms Policy Coalition (Wikipedia)
- Pistol Brace Ban Vacated (Firearms Policy Coalition)
- ATF’s Pistol Brace Rule Is Officially Dead (AmmoLand)
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