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Past issues
- May 2026: GAGV Presents: GUAC — A Powerful Night of Theater and Advocacy in Los Angeles; A Promising Step Against the Iron Pipeline; Video explainer: How Supreme Court Cases Heller and Bruen Completely Reinterpreted the Second Amendment; Substack
- March 2026: Landmark opinion from from Inter-American Court; Video explainer: How the Court Got the Second Amendment So Wrong; Momentum growing to end the gun industry immunity law; Jon Lowy’s Substack launch
- November 2025: Lush campaign nominated for an award; GAGV wins a favorable ruling for Mexico in its lawsuit against Arizona gun dealers; GAGV is a leading voice at a public health summit on firearm violence; GAGV advisory committee member wins MacArthur “Genius” grant
- July 2025: GAGV partners with Lush; GAGV calls on the Supreme Court to strike down PLCAA; more on the Canadian class-action lawsuit against Smith & Wesson; a productive summer for GAGV interns; C-Suite Network podcast profiles Jon Lowy’s long career in gun litigation
- June 2025: Unpacking the Supreme Court decision; Canadian class-action lawsuit against Smith & Wesson can proceed; watch the video of our gun trafficking discussion with Rep. Dan Goldman.
- May 2025: Supreme Court gun liability ruling due shortly; join Rep. Dan Goldman for a discussion on gun trafficking; GAGV welcomes its 2025 summer interns; Lawfare podcast explains Mexico’s lawsuit, which the Supreme Court is deliberating.
- April 2025: The stories behind our Supreme Court argument; the view from Mexico; illegal gun shipments from the U.S. to Haiti; GAGV’s global action strategy explained.
- February 2025: A victory in Mexico’s lawsuit against several gun dealers in Arizona; preparing for the U.S. Supreme Court argument; Manny Oliver’s benefit performance of GUAC.
- January 2025: We have a date for our U.S. Supreme Court case!; a benefit performance of Manny Oliver’s GUAC will be held in Washington, D.C.; and a recent episode of 60 Minutes features Jon Lowy discussing the link between U.S. gun industry practices, Mexican cartels, the fentanyl trade, and migration.
- October 2024: The U.S. Supreme Court to consider Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers; GAGV to testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States’ gun policies violate human rights law; GAGV welcomes new staff attorney, Emily Zoffer.
- July 2024: GAGV welcomes Jake Meiseles as our first full-time staff attorney, and we celebrate our 2024 summer legal interns, Sofia Bottinelli, Ashley Russell, Fina Short, and India Tisdale.
- April 2024: Jon Lowy will argue before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that the gun industry shield law, PLCAA, is unconstitutional, in a case that is the best chance so far to overturn PLCAA; Jon and Manny Oliver were featured speakers at the George Washington University International Law Review’s annual symposium.
- January 2024: In a tremendous victory for gun safety, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rules that Mexico’s lawsuit against six American gun manufacturers can proceed; Berkeley Law students join forces with GAGV; The Trace interviews Jon Lowy about GAGV’s innovative work.
- November 2023: GAGV files a groundbreaking lawsuit against the United States that seeks to hold the U.S. accountable for putting gun rights above the right to live. Dubbed “the Lawsuit for Survival,” Joaquin Oliver v. USA was filed in the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights on behalf of Joaquin, a student killed in the Parkland, FL, school shooting, and his parents Manny and Patricia.
- August 2023: Jon argues a historic appeal in federal court; GAGV co-hosts a side event at a UN’s Human Rights Council meeting; Join Patricia and Manny Oliver at Guacathon 2023; the U.S Supreme Court will consider an important gun case.
- May 2023: Jon’s report from a meeting of Caribbean countries on gun violence in the region; Manny Oliver joins GAGV’s team; GAGV’s Elizabeth Burke at a conference on cross-border gun trafficking; recent GAGV op-eds and media coverage.
- March 2023: our inaugural newsletter — a new approach; how GAGV got started; report from a trip to Mexico.
