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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…
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…