15 Best AR-15s [2026]: Top Rifles for Every Budget and Skill Level
From $700 budget builds to $3,500 precision rigs, we’ve put rounds through dozens of AR-15s. Here are the ones worth your money at every price point.
The 9 Best AR-10s of 2026: Ultimate Hands-On Guide
The AR-10 delivers reach the 5.56 can’t touch — but not every rifle earns its price tag. Here are the 9 we’d actually buy.
Buying Your First AR-15: Everything You Need to Know
Are you in the market to buy your first AR-15? We’ve compiled the most complete AR-15 buyer’s guide out there to help you in your quest.
Two Valid Carry Permits, a Locked Case at the Minnesota Line, and Now a Supreme Court Docket Number
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.
The FBI’s Active Shooter Reports Exclude Self-Defense by Rule, and Its Own Founding Study Says So
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.
Nine Americans Just Got Their Gun Rights Back. The Application Line Doesn’t Even Open Until September 21.
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.
Best Labor Day Gun Deals 2026: 170+ Sales Actually Worth Your Weekend
Every Labor Day gun, optic, suppressor and ammo sale we could verify from 30+ retailers.
The Gun Industry’s 16.5 Percent August Comeback Is Being Graded on a Very Generous Curve
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.
Michigan’s Five-Year Suppressor Felony Guards a Door the Feds Abandoned, and Two Lansing Bills Want It Gone
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 Quietly Restored Its Defensive Gun Use Data. The Numbers Still Embarrass the Same People Who Got Them Removed.
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.
A Sharpening Stone Defeats the Tech California Wants on Every New Pistol by 2028
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.
Congress Defunded Gun-Rights Restoration in 1992. The DOJ Just Reopened It With a $30 Fee and a Start Date.
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 Ghost Gun Rule Survived the Supreme Court. It Didn’t Survive the Trip Back to Texas.
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.
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