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.

A coalition led by the NRA, SAF, and FPC is asking a Buffalo federal judge to strike down New York’s “convertible pistol” ban, a category that covers nearly every Glock sold since 1986.

The stay on the NFA registration ruling expired with no appeal filed, and the first registration-free suppressor transfers since 1934 followed at midnight. Here’s who’s covered and what still applies.