FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
DENVER – The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) today announced it has issued a subpoena to Magpul Industries, demanding the release of civilian sales data on standard-capacity magazines after the company refused to cooperate voluntarily for over a year.
NAGR is currently challenging Massachusetts’s so-called “assault weapons” and magazine ban in federal court. This subpoena is aimed at thwarting the moving target set by anti-gun activist judges by proving that AR-15s and standard-capacity magazines are commonly used for lawful purposes, a constitutional standard the Supreme Court has been crystal clear about in Heller and Bruen.
“For more than a year, Magpul has slammed the door on every request we made for their sales numbers,” said Dudley Brown, President of the National Association for Gun Rights. “They know their magazines are owned by millions of law-abiding Americans. But instead of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with gun owners in the biggest constitutional fight of our generation, they’ve chosen to hide behind silence. Enough is enough. We’re hauling them into court.”
NAGR emphasized that this subpoena isn’t about “punishing” a manufacturer, but about exposing the undeniable truth that anti-gun politicians are desperate to bury. The request is simple: Magpul must provide the raw numbers of magazines in circulation. It does not, and will never, seek any personally identifiable information about gun owners.
“The gun industry has failed — failed to deliver the hard evidence needed to kill these bans, failed to defend the very products they profit from, and failed the gun owners who buy their products. We consider this a friendly subpoena, but if they want to fight, we’ll fight,” Brown continued.“
NAGR is demanding breakdowns of Magpul’s civilian magazine sales, by capacity, to prove once and for all that so-called “high-capacity” magazines are not rare, unusual, or exotic, but rather some of the most common firearm accessories in the United States.
“We are not going to let bureaucrats, activist judges, or a complacent gun industry write the obituary for the Second Amendment. We’re going to prove, with Magpul’s own numbers, that these magazines are in common use, and when we do, the entire case for bans collapses,” said Hannah Hill, Vice President of NAGR’s legal arm.
NFGR’s lawsuit in Massachusetts is aimed at setting a national precedent to strike down “assault weapon” and magazine bans across the country. Magpul has roughly three weeks to comply with our subpoena, and in the coming days, NAGR will also be issuing similar sales data requests to several other AR manufacturers.
“The time for backroom excuses is over,” Hill concluded. “Gun owners deserve the same support they have given these multi-billion dollar businesses, and NAGR will not stop until these unconstitutional bans are shattered in court.”
To see the subpoena, click here.
For more information, contact Taylor Rhodes at [email protected].
The National Association for Gun Rights is a 501(c)(4) organization headquartered in Loveland, Colorado, dedicated to defending the Second Amendment and fighting for the rights of peaceable Americans to keep and bear arms. Since its founding in 2001, NAGR has worked to hold anti-gun politicians accountable and promote maximum individual liberty by mobilizing more than 4.5 million members and grassroots activists nationwide.
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