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The Justice Department’s deadline for San Jose to answer for the nation’s highest carry permit fee expires at 5 p.m. Eastern today. The statute behind the threat is the one that puts police departments under consent decrees.

Jeffrey Johnson holds carry permits from Florida and Georgia. Minnesota honors neither, and the Eighth Circuit ruled that the law behind that refusal cannot be challenged at all. Now the Supreme Court has it.

A new CPRC analysis puts armed-citizen stops at 36.6 percent against the 3.9 percent drawn from FBI reports. We pulled the FBI’s founding study: the gap starts with a printed exclusion rule.

The first individual gun-rights restorations since 1992 are in the Federal Register: nine names, two grant dates, and a process that takes its first public applications September 21.

The FBI logged 2,111,146 background checks in August, up 16.5 percent over last year and the biggest annual jump since 2021. The fine print: last August set a decade low.

Two bills filed August 27 would repeal Michigan’s felony bans on suppressors and short-barreled rifles, closing the legal gap the federal NFA injunction opened for owners who skip now-unenforceable paperwork.

The CDC’s defensive gun use estimates are back on its website after a four-year absence. FOIA emails already showed why they left. The agency isn’t saying why they came back.

NIST told Congress no independent study has ever validated microstamping, and hand tools defeat it. California is one determination away from requiring it on every new semiautomatic pistol in 2028.

DOJ’s final rule revives the 925(c) relief process Congress defunded in 1992: who qualifies, who’s presumptively denied, what the application costs, and when the window opens.

The Supreme Court upheld ATF’s frame-or-receiver rule last year. On remand, a Fort Worth judge just struck it under the Second and Fifth Amendments, with an injunction covering every SAF member.