The Federal Register will publish the ATF’s new pistol brace rule on Jan. 31, 2023, giving brace owners and dealers a 120-day window to comply before it goes into effect. Although the countdown for the impending pistol brace ban has been teased ...
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Assault Weapon Ban of 2023: Biden Fully Supports Proposed Law
The notoriously anti-gun Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduces an assault weapon ban practically every year, like clockwork. For nearly 20 years, they've gone nowhere. This year may be different. Feinstein’s new Assault Weapons Ban of ...
Illinois Assault Weapon Ban Update: Judge Temporarily Blocks Law
FOLLOWING CONTENT POSTED: JAN. 24, 2023 Last week, an Illinois county court approved a temporary restraining order (TRO) to block the state’s assault weapons ban from being enforced against the more than 1,500 plaintiffs who filed a legal ...
Barrett Firearms Acquired by Australian Group
At the start of the 2023 SHOT Show, Tennessee-based gunmaker Barrett Firearms announced it has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by the global munitions company NIOA Group. NIOA has locations around the world and is primarily based in Australia. ...
ATF Drops New Pistol Brace Rule: It’s Not Good
UPDATED: Jan. 15, 2023: A few days before the 2023 SHOT Show kicks off, a long-awaited and dreaded ATF pistol brace rule has been formally announced. It will have some gunmakers rethinking their booth displays at SHOT and U.S. gun owners scrambling ...
Bump Stock Ban Reversed by U.S. Appellate Court
Last week, a federal appellate court reversed the ATF’s decision to institute a bump stock ban and to classify bump stocks as machine guns, saying the agency exceeded its authority. “A plain reading of the statutory language, paired with close ...
San Jose Becomes the First U.S. City to Mandate Gun Insurance
At the first of the year, the city of San Jose realized a novel gun control measure that some economists think is a practical way to reduce gun violence. The California city has become the first in the nation to require all gun owners to carry ...
UPDATE: Judge’s Ruling Blocks Oregon Measure 114 Indefinitely
This week, an Oregon state judge upheld a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the background check provision in Measure 114, a gun control law voters passed by a slim majority in November. The ruling effectively blocks the law in its entirety ...
New ATF ‘Ghost Gun’ Rule: Unfinished Pistol Frames Are Firearms
The ATF issued an open letter on Tuesday clarifying that partially completed pistol frames produced and sold by companies such as Polymer80 and Lone Wolf — the base component for so-called “ghost gun” handguns — should now be considered firearms ...
Intruder Meets ‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan and a .44 Magnum
Wrestling legend “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, 68, hasn’t been in a match in more than a decade, but he can certainly still hold his own. The WWE Hall of Famer recently used his grappling skills to take down a man who had broken into his South Carolina home ...
Rumor Mill: New ATF Pistol Brace Rule May Publish in December
As of Tuesday, Dec. 13, the final rule regarding new pistol brace regulations has not been published in the Federal Register — the last step before it can be enforced — but it is rumored that the Biden administration will do so sometime this ...
Biden Pushes for Lame Duck 2022 ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
In the wake of two more tragic and high-profile shootings in Virginia and Colorado, resulting in multiple innocent casualties, President Joe Biden took the opportunity to ratchet up his anti-gun rhetoric following a successful midterm election cycle ...
New Jersey Concealed Carry Crackdown Imminent
Gun owners in formerly “may-issue” carry states have been eagerly waiting to see how their state governments would react to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the NYSRPA vs. Bruen case a few months back. Last week, not only did New Jersey say “hell no” to ...
Silencer Central: Spreading the Suppressor Gospel
Shooters of all breeds, hunters included, have increasingly embraced suppressors in the past decade. While the devices themselves are not new — the technology dates back to the early 20th century and is damn near identical to the muffler on every ...
Oregon Measure 114 Could Halt Gun Sales in State for Years
If a ballot measure currently before voters in Oregon passes, the state will have the strictest gun laws in the entire country. Its passage will also likely result in the suspension of gun sales and purchases in the state, potentially for years, as ...
Tax Hike for Guns and Ammo? House Dems Are Pushing For It
Should gunmakers, ammunition manufacturers, and law-abiding Americans who buy these products pay higher taxes to fund government-sponsored gun control and mitigate the damage done by criminals? With midterm elections just weeks away, some Democrats ...
FBI Pressures Citizens to Forfeit 2A Rights via NICS E Check Form
Did you know that the FBI has a form that will invalidate an American's Second Amendment rights as soon as they sign it? It does, and reports say more than a dozen people have reportedly signed this form, possibly under questionable circumstances. ...
Mike Glover Instagram Ban Drama Is a Warning for All Hunters
The Instagram police finally came for Mike Glover last week. His account vanished one morning after a barrage of reports triggered an auto-ban in the social media platform’s system. It wasn’t because of a tactical firearms-training photo or a video ...
Gun Database? Credit Cards Add New Code for Gun Purchases
Major credit card companies, including Visa, Mastercard, and American Express, have agreed to begin using a four-digit code to segregate gun-related purchases from other transactions leading some to believe the creation of a corporate gun database is ...
Why UPS Has Strict New Rules for Shipping Firearms
One of the largest shipping and receiving companies in the world has taken a decidedly anti-gun stance with a set of strict new rules about shipping firearms. United Parcel Service (UPS), which has been a US-based company since 1907, recently revised ...
Billionaire in Taiwan Tells China to F*ck Off, Starts Own CMP
A retired Taiwanese tech billionaire is personally funding a civilian marksmanship program called the Black Bear Academy. Its purpose? Fighting a potential Chinese invasion of the island nation that is striving for sovereignty. Under Robert Tsao’s ...
Judge: Texas Concealed Carry Ban for Young Adults Violates 2A
A judge has struck down a Texas concealed carry ban in a case representing the first test of a landmark Supreme Court gun rights decision handed down in June. While Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law last year that allowed anyone in the state ...
FBI Going After Missouri Concealed Carry Permit Holder Info?
There’s some strangeness afoot down in Missouri over concealed carry permit records, and it’s pitting local and state-level politicians against the FBI. The feds say their request to audit the computers where CCW records are kept is to ensure ...
State Responses to Bruen: New York Gun Laws Got Worse
It has been nearly two months since the Supreme Court handed down a decision that will force nine states to alter their current concealed-carry permitting laws. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen struck down a requirement in ...
Gun and Ammo Sales Bring In $300M for Wildlife Conservation
The North American Model of Conservation is the envy of the world — but it doesn’t run on good intentions alone. It must be supported by funding, and this year, the coffers are full, thanks to the number of guns and boxes of ammunition Americans ...
Clerk, 80, Uses Hunting Skills and a Shotgun to Stop Armed Robbery
Eighty-year-old Craig Cope credits his childhood hunting experience for the quick-thinking and stellar shotgunning skills that saved his California liquor store and possibly his life from a group of would-be armed robbers, and he has become internet ...
The AR-15 Wasn’t Made to ‘Blow Targets Apart’ or Cut Off Heads
The recent high-profile shootings in the US have invigorated a new wave of anti-gun sentiment and proposed legislation throughout the country and a reciprocal rallying of Second Amendment supporters defending gun rights. As so often is the case, ...
This New Bill Could Gut Conservation Funding, Kill Pittman-Robertson Act
The legislation that has significantly funded conservation efforts in the U.S. for nearly 100 years and has served as a crucial part of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is under attack, and some conservationists and experts in the ...
House Votes to Adopt Expansive Federal Assault Weapons Ban
In a surprising about-face, the House held an evening vote today on HR 1808, the current iteration of the federal Assault Weapons Ban that was originally introduced last year and recently resurrected. The legislation, which would ban large swaths of ...
House Vote on Bill to Ban Assault Weapons ‘Postponed’
UPDATE July 28: According to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, House Democrats have postponed further action on HR 1808 – the new assault weapons ban legislation – until next month, after returning from summer recess. “As those discussions [about HR ...
