Weekly Spotlight 8/16/25 – 8/23/25
Arkansas’ Firearm Safety Education Act Set To Enter Curriculum
As American families begin another school year, Arkansans are preparing their students for a new course thanks to Act 229 – the Firearm Safety Education Act. This new law, signed last year by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, goes into effect this coming school year and will usher in an essential firearm safety curriculum into Arkansas classrooms.
The law allows for flexibility in how schools deliver education, including teaching methods, and is entirely safety-focused, aiming to ensure that students are prepared and educated in the event they encounter a firearm.
To help Arkansans prepare for this new law and better understand its implications, the USCCA For Saving Lives Action Fund and Oaklawn Casino are hosting an event on Saturday, August 23. The event will feature a political panel discussion with Second Amendment advocates including: U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, State Senators Gary Stubblefield and Matt McKee, and State Representative Bruce Cozart.
This panel will highlight the Firearm Safety Education Act, its implementation, and how it will empower students with the knowledge and responsibility to ensure their safety, and its implications on the future of the Second Amendment across the state.
This event will also offer the chance for USCCA members and responsible gun owners to meet and interact with likeminded Americans and to educate themselves on the issues that matter surrounding their right to self defense.
OTHER NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
Washington Times: GOP State Attorneys General Join Gun Rights Groups’ Lawsuit To Repeal National Firearms Act
Fifteen Republican state attorneys general joined Second Amendment groups that went to court last month to strike down the National Firearms Act. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a new $0 tax and registration scheme for certain suppressors and firearms with short barrels to justify upholding the NFA as a tax statute. Attorneys general from Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming joined a coalition suit following the failure of the GOP-run Congress to fully repeal the 1934 gun control law in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
CT Insider (Connecticut): How A New Connecticut Law Affects Gun Owners And Businesses
During a recent ceremony at the State Capitol, Gov. Ned Lamont touted a new measure making it easier for victims of gun violence to sue firearms manufacturers and dealers for negligence. It was the most significant gun law to emerge from Connecticut’s recent legislative session. “We do some things in politics that are symbolic, and we do some things that make a real difference,” Lamont said at the ceremony. “And I think what we’ve done here in Connecticut when it comes to gun safety laws makes a real difference.” Here’s what to know about the new law.
MSNBC: The Supreme Court’s Next Second Amendment Case Could Be A Drug Case
The Supreme Court’s upcoming term is already stocked with important cases on several hot-button issues, such as voting rights, campaign finance, transgender sports participation and more. The justices add cases to their docket on a rolling basis, and one of the next appeals could be another controversial one, involving guns and drugs. The Justice Department is pressing the high court to take a Second Amendment case about a federal law that bars firearm possession by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance.” The issue is due for consideration in the court’s Sept. 29 private conference.
Statehouse News Bureau: Republican Megabill Eliminates Tax On Gun Silencers For Buyers In Ohio And Other States
Ohioans who purchase suppressors, the mechanisms that makes gunfire quieter, are getting a tax break in the law President Trump and Republicans have called the “big beautiful bill.” Buckeye Firearms Executive Director Dean Rieck said suppressors, often called silencers, are very common and protect gun users’ hearing. But he said they don’t increase the power of guns. “They are just about sound reduction. It’s kinda like a muffler on a car,” Rieck said. Still, Rieck said purchasing suppressors involves jumping through hoops that he thinks are laborious and unnecessary. He said starting Jan. 1, buyers will still have to fill out paperwork.
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