Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led an effort joined by 16 other state attorneys general to halt Hawaii’s unconstitutional gun ban which prohibits the carry or possession of firearms in designated “sensitive” places, including bars and restaurants serving [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, in an amicus brief filed today, led a coalition of 18 other state attorneys general in an effort to halt Maryland county’s unconstitutional gun bans in places of public assembly and in the [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 20 state attorneys general in asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to reverse the district court’s decision and enjoin an unconstitutional set of laws passed [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is leading a coalition of 20 states against a foreign attack on the American firearms industry. In an amicus brief filed Thursday, the 20 attorneys general seek to protect the law-abiding firearms manufacturers [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 17 other state attorneys general calling on the United States Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision giving officials license to stifle their political opponents’ protected speech by [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today released the following statement regarding President Biden’s “Executive Order on Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer”: “The President can’t rewrite laws. This is yet another executive order from the most [...]
HELENA - In response to reports that Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover have decided to ‘pause’ the implementation of a merchant category code for the processing of firearms purchases from gun stores, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the [...]
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 18 other state attorneys general this week filed amicus briefs in federal court supporting Americans’ right to keep and bear arms and the right of places of worship to determine their own [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called out President Biden’s recent irresponsible, radical, and unconstitutional statements he made during the State of the Union demanding Congress ban firearms commonly used by law-abiding Americans for self-defense. In a letter [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen called out big banks for discriminating against firearms companies while testifying in support of pending state legislation that would prevent the state from contracting with companies that have policies discriminating against firearm entities [...]