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The Microphone California Makes a Home-Based Gun Dealer Run 24/7 Also Records His Kids, and Two New Briefs Ask the Full Ninth Circuit to Step In
Goldwater and the NRA filed amicus briefs October 23 backing an en banc petition in Richards v. Newsom, the challenge to Penal Code 26806’s 24-hour audio and video…
Buying a Bulletproof Vest in New York Stops Being a Crime on November 4, Unless the Second Circuit Steps In
A federal judge in Buffalo held body armor is an "arm" under the Second Amendment and permanently enjoined New York's purchase-and-sale ban. The order is stayed 14 days…
Smith & Wesson Buys Savage Arms
Smith & Wesson paid $160 million for Savage Arms, mostly in stock. The seller, JDH Capital, now holds 16.7 percent of the company and a board seat.
New Mexico Lost Its Gun Waiting Period Case Three Times. It’s Enforcing the Law Anyway.
A federal appeals court struck down New Mexico's seven-day gun waiting period, the full court refused to rehear it, and a judge entered final judgment. The state is…
The Supreme Court Just Left Your Gun Waiting Period Up to Your Zip Code
The justices turned away Beckwith v. Frey without a word, leaving Maine's 72-hour wait in force and a First Circuit vs. Tenth Circuit split on waiting periods unresolved.…
The Fine Print in the ATF’s NFA Walkback Is a Section Titled ‘Future Risk’
The ATF's October 9 guidance drops Form 1 and Form 4 approval and NFRTR registration for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs and AOWs nationwide. Here are the five limits, the…
The ATF Finalized More NFA Forms in Eight Months of 2026 Than in Any Full Year It Has Published. Suppressors Were 98 Percent of August’s Transfers.
ATF's own processing page shows 2.12 million NFA forms finalized through Sept. 3, 1.17 million Form 4 approvals and 6.9 million silencers on the registry. Here's what each…
San Diego County Is Suing a Filament Maker on the Theory That Marketing Turns Plastic Into a Gun Part
San Diego County's suit against Polymaker rests on one idea: 3D-printer filament becomes a regulated firearm precursor part the moment it's marketed to people who print guns. Here's…
The Gun Industry Says September Sales Fell 2.3 Percent. The FBI Counted 157,000 More Checks Than the Industry Did.
The FBI logged 2,000,629 NICS checks in September, up 3.6 percent, while NSSF's adjusted retail count fell 2.3 percent. The 149,614 NFA checks sitting between the two numbers…
The DOJ’s Letter Ending the NFA Appeal Showed Up Stapled to a Request for 10 More Days to Say Who the Ruling Covers
The Solicitor General's no-appeal letter surfaced inside a DOJ motion asking for ten more days to answer nine states on who the NFA injunction covers. The appeal window…
New Jersey Answered a 10-5 Loss on Its AR-15 Ban With a 10-Page Petition Asking the Supreme Court to Wait
New Jersey's Supreme Court petition doesn't argue that the ruling against its rifle and magazine bans was wrong. It asks the justices to hold the case, which keeps…
‘Presumptively Unconstitutional’: A Federal Judge Blocks Connecticut’s Glock Ban the Day Before It Took Effect
Judge Kari Dooley's order stops Connecticut from enforcing its felony ban on newly made Glock-pattern pistols. Here is what she blocked, why the state's history argument failed, and…
The DOJ Says Minneapolis Makes Handgun Buyers Wait Nearly 60 Days Under a Law That Promises 30
A federal lawsuit asks a judge to end Minnesota's 30-day wait on handgun and AR-15 purchases and its purchase permit. Here's how the law works, what the complaint…
The ATF’s Defense of Its 1.4 Billion Gun Records Is That It Chose Not to Search Them
ATF confirmed to Congress it holds 1.41 billion pages of out-of-business dealer records, nine in ten of them digital. Eight senators and Rep. Michael Cloud now want the…
The Lawsuit Blaming Gun Ads for a D.C. School Shooting Now Has the Supreme Court’s Attention
The Supreme Court wants to hear from the families suing Daniel Defense and 12 other gun companies over their ads. Here's the liability theory the NRA and SAF…
The ATF Couldn’t Ban Forced Reset Triggers. So It’s Backing Patent Lawsuits That Can.
The government lost its machine-gun case against forced reset triggers in 2024. A new DOJ filing in a Texas patent court shows the strategy that replaced it.
The Best Suppressor News Since the Injunction Came Out of a Compliance Seminar in Dallas
ATF leadership put timelines on the record at a Dallas dealer summit: suppressor and SBR transfer guidance within weeks, a revised Form 4473 after the holidays, and movement…
The Case for Banning the AR-15 Has an 800-Warship Problem
The Supreme Court hears the biggest Second Amendment case since Bruen on December 2. The lower courts' “too military” theory has to get past 800 privately owned warships…
Connecticut’s Glock Ban Gets One Hearing, Two Days Before Selling One Becomes a Felony
NSSF, Shadow Systems, and a Wallingford range are asking a federal judge to stop Public Act 26-41 before selling most new striker-fired handguns becomes a felony on October…
Illinois Concealed Carrier Stops a Masked Robbery Attempt at an Orland Park Gas Pump
A masked man pointed a gun at a customer at the pump at 151st and Harlem on September 15. The customer, a licensed carrier, fired back. What police…