Department of Justice Press Releases
To further support customers in the Bozeman area in response to increased demand, Montana’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) mobile unit will be at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds for a week-long mobile licensing event April 18 – 22. MVD’s mobile unit [...]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s rewrite of federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulations to ban so-called “ghost guns”: Assembling firearms for their own use is a tradition [...]
HELENA —The Montana Department of Justice announced today that in fiscal year 2021 the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) helped Montana non-profit organizations raise $5,669,311 million through the highly popular specialty plate program. Currently, customers can select from more than 200 [...]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is leading a coalition of 21 other state attorneys general in defense of the Second Amendment, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rulemaking that [...]
Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) troopers interdicted large amounts of illegal drugs in 2021, and in the case of the dangerous opioid fentanyl, they’ve already blown past last year’s quantity in 2022, Colonel Steve Lavin announced today. Troopers found nearly 3,800 [...]
HELENA – Fifty-seven new officers who will serve in 40 agencies across the state graduated today from the Montana Law Enforcement Academy (MLEA), which is part of the Montana Department of Justice. MLEA provides basic and advanced training for state, county, [...]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general that today called on the Biden administration to halt its efforts to rewrite federal rules and redefine biological sex to include gender identity. The U.S. Department [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined nine state attorneys general today in opposing the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court because of her history of leniency toward child predators. As a [...]
Montana Attorney General Knudsen joined 22 other state attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to protect the gun rights of all Americans by declaring unconstitutional a California law that bans firearm magazines that are [...]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today joined 20 other state attorneys general in a lawsuit to end President Biden’s continued mask mandate for airplanes and other forms of mass transportation. The mandate exceeds Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) [...]
