WHAT WE DO

FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) works to achieve the Organization’s strategic objectives through charitable efforts including litigation, research, scholarly publications, amicus briefing, and education. FPCAF also succeeds through our partnership with Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) by providing expert legal oversight to implement FPC Law—the nation’s preeminent public interest legal initiative focused on the right to keep and bear arms.

Please find below a selection of our work:

LITIGATION

• Mock v. U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi

  • Challenge to ATF's “pistol brace” rule

• VanDerStok v. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland

  • Challenge to ATF's “frame or receiver” rule

• Guedes v. ATF

  • Challenge to ATF's ban on "bumpstock" devices/re-definition of “machinegun”

• Linton v. California Attorney General

  • Challenge to the State of California’s lifetime ban on individuals who were convicted of a non-violent crime and are not federally prohibited

• Wiese v. California Attorney General

  • Challenge to the State of California’s ban on firearm magazines

• Williams v. Garland

  • Challenging lifetime gun ban for non-violent misdemeanor conviction

RESEARCH

• The Right to Train: A Pillar of the Second Amendment

  • Joseph G.S. Greenlee

  • William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 31, 2022 (Forthcoming)

• The American Tradition of Self-Made Arms

  • Joseph G.S. Greenlee

  • Volume 54 of the St. Mary’s Law Journal in 2022

• Red Flag Laws Raise Red Flags Of Their Own

  • Joseph G.S. Greenlee and Matthew Larosiere

  • 45 Law & Psychol. Rev. 155 (2020-2021)

• The Historical Justification For Prohibiting Dangerous Persons From Possessing Arms

  • Joseph G.S. Greenlee

  • 20 Wyo. L. Rev. 249 (2020)

Click here for Joseph Greenlee's SSRN author page listing of more research/articles

SYMPOSIUMS & EVENTS

• Restoring the Founders’ right to bear arms

  • Joseph G. S. Greenlee, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 29, 2022, 1:42 PM)