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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…
Buying a Handgun From an Out-of-State Dealer Has Been Illegal Since 1968. The Fifth Circuit Just Struck That Ban Down.
A 2-1 Fifth Circuit panel struck down the 1968 rules that force out-of-state handgun buyers through a second dealer and a transfer fee. Here is who the ruling…
Ninety Years of NFA Registration Ends With a Deadline the DOJ Was Ordered to Miss
The DOJ has until October 5 to appeal the ruling that ended NFA registration for suppressors and short-barreled rifles. CBS reports the order to stand down came from…
Ruger Just Killed Its Own Poison Pill So Beretta Can Buy a Quarter of the Company
Beretta’s $107.5 million tender offer for a quarter of Sturm Ruger is live through October 15, at a 21 percent premium. What the deal is, what it isn’t,…
New Jersey Caps You at One Handgun a Month. Two Lawsuits Just Asked a Federal Judge to End the Law for Good.
Every plaintiff challenging New Jersey's handgun-rationing law moved for summary judgment September 14, and the state must now defend a one-a-month limit whose historical record starts in 1975.
The Law That Puts Police Departments Under Consent Decrees Is Now Aimed at San Jose’s $1,591 Carry Permit Fee
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…
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.…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Cross-Shaped Piece of Steel From 1982 Just Dragged New York’s Glock Ban Into Federal Court
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…
‘Relief, If Any’: The DOJ’s Week to Save NFA Registration Ended Without a Single Filing
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…
The Ninth Circuit Just Put a Stake in Hawaii’s ‘Vampire Rule,’ and Four States Are Holding Copies
On remand from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the injunction against Hawaii’s default ban on licensed carry in businesses open to the public. Four states run…