Department of Justice Press Releases
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 [...]
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 23 other states filed a lawsuit against an egregious and overreaching Biden administration gun control regulation that will turn millions of gun owners into felons if they do not register certain devices [...]
HELENA – Seventeen state attorneys general joined Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today in asking major shipping companies to clarify new policies that allow them to track firearm sales with unprecedented specificity and bypass warrant requirements to share that information [...]
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called on YouTube to stop censoring legal firearm-related content on its platform, restore videos it removed which were all related to legal products and activities, and to “start acting like the platform it claims [...]