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New House Bill: Carry on Federal Lands — Including the Visitor Center
Two House Republicans just introduced a bill that says what every hunter and hiker already knows: stepping into a National Park restroom should not strip your right to carry.
atf regulationATF’s FOPA Travel Fix Is Live in Rulemaking — NRA Just Filed to Make It Stick
Forty years after Congress wrote a federal safe-passage right for traveling gun owners, ATF is rewriting the regulation that was supposed to make that right real — and NRA just put its comment on the record.
Archive10-Year Sentence for Carrying in the USVI? GOA Just Filed Suit
Gun Owners of America filed a federal lawsuit July 20 against the U.S. Virgin Islands over a gun-licensing scheme that leaves law-abiding American visitors facing a ten-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for carrying the same firearm they legally carry at home.
ArchiveNJ's AR-15 Ban Dies July 31 — State Police Just Told Every Dealer
New Jersey State Police just sent every licensed gun dealer in the state the message AG Matt Platkin never wanted them to receive: the AR-15 and standard-capacity magazine bans are dead, effective July 31, 2026 — and the man who lost the case is still 'working on' telling dealers what that means.
ArchiveBrady Lost in Court. Now They're Flooding Hawaii With Propaganda Signs.
The Supreme Court told Hawaii its gun restrictions were unconstitutional. The Third Circuit killed New Jersey's AR ban. So the anti-gun lobby did what it always does when it loses in court — it went around the courts entirely.
ArchiveFifth Circuit Just Torched the Feds' Forever Gun Hook
The full Fifth Circuit just erased its own ruling and agreed to decide whether a single state-line crossing — decades ago, no commerce, no sale, just a gun sitting in your home — gives Washington permanent power over that firearm forever.
ArchiveTalarico Hired 'C*cks Not Glocks' Leader to Write His Gun Bills
James Talarico's very first act as a Texas lawmaker was handing a pen to the woman who built a movement mocking students for carrying legally on campus — and she used it to try to turn Texas into a may-issue state.
ArchiveDOJ Surrenders in 41 Words — Post Office Gun Ban Dead
The Department of Justice filed a 41-word motion on July 16 to abandon its defense of the federal post office gun ban — and couldn't be bothered to write a single sentence explaining why.
ArchiveThird Circuit Just Nuked NJ's AR Ban. All of It.
The entire Third Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled New Jersey's AR ban and magazine limit unconstitutional — and Phil Murphy's flagship gun laws are now dead.
ArchiveWolford Just Handed 2A Lawyers the Key to Blow Open Every State's Carry Ban
Anti-gun states spent years building a two-pillar fortress — ban the guns, then make carrying anything else a felony trap for out-of-staters. Wolford just cracked one pillar. Barnett v. Raoul could detonate the other.
ArchiveNRA, FPC & SAF Just Put the $200 SBR Tax Stamp on Trial
For 90 years, the federal government charged gun owners $200, made them wait up to a year, and demanded a permission slip to own a short-barreled rifle — and on Monday, four of the most powerful 2A organizations in America walked into the Sixth Circuit and said: prove you were ever allowed to do that.
court watchNSSF Takes Illinois AR Ban Straight to SCOTUS — Barnett Trial Record vs Seventh Circuit
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is not waiting for the Seventh Circuit to have the last word on Illinois's AR-15 ban. NSSF announced it will petition the Supreme Court in Barnett v. Raoul — the case with the trial record the justices already took without.
state lawVirginia's Gun and Immigration Laws Are in Court Chaos — Seven Suits, Zero Clarity
Virginia Democrats wanted July 1 to be the day their gun and immigration agenda locked in. Instead, it became the opening bell for a courthouse brawl with no clean answer for gun owners or sheriffs.
court watchCalifornia Glock Ban Stays in Force — Judge Denies DOJ Emergency Block
The Trump Justice Department sued California on July 1 to stop Assembly Bill 1127 — the so-called Glock ban on dealer sales of striker-fired pistols with cruciform trigger bars. On July 9, a federal judge said the emergency motion fails.
court watchGOA Sues Pennsylvania — Lifetime Carry Ban Over a 1994 Joint Cannot Survive Hemani
Craig Philips served in the Air Force during the Gulf War, retired from the VA, and can still legally buy guns. Pennsylvania says he can never carry one in public — because of a marijuana misdemeanor from 1994.
court watchFPC Sues Denver and Colorado — 37-Year City AR Ban Meets Bruen and a SCOTUS Clock
Denver has banned what it calls assault weapons since 1989. Firearms Policy Coalition and the Colorado State Shooting Association say that era ended when Bruen became the law — and they filed Elliott v. Denver to prove it.
legislationNRA Sues Illinois Over 72-Hour Waiting Period — Background Check Is Not Enough
Illinois already makes buying a gun a paperwork marathon. Now the NRA is asking a federal court to kill the part that assumes you cannot be trusted with a firearm you already passed a background check to buy.
court watchSeventh Circuit Upholds Illinois AR Ban — SCOTUS Is the Only Exit Left
Illinois gun owners lost the intermediate round: the Seventh Circuit upheld the Protect Illinois Communities Act on Thursday, reversing a lower court that had struck the state's AR-15 and magazine bans.
court watchVirginia's AR Ban Injunction Just Went Statewide — Enforcement Stops July 21
Virginia gun owners got the scope question answered: the preliminary injunction blocking Governor Abigail Spanberger's assault-weapon and magazine bans applies statewide — and it takes effect July 21.
litigationEven Easterbrook Says Lifetime Gun Bans Need Proof of Present Danger — Rose Remands
Judge Frank Easterbrook — no friend of the Second Amendment in Bevis v. Naperville — just handed gun-rights litigators the sentence they have been building toward since Rahimi: you cannot strip firearms for life without proof someone is dangerous right now.
state lawCalifornia's Anti-Gun Package Survives Summer Recess — Eight Bills Still Alive for August
California's Legislature broke for summer recess on July 2 with a stack of anti-gun bills still moving — from expanded red-flag ammo rules and mandatory four-hour safety courses to dealer inspection mandates and restrictions on 3D printers.
second amendmentAmerica at 250 — The Second Amendment Is Still the Founders' Bet on Independence
Fireworks will light the sky tonight for the 250th anniversary of American independence — and for gun owners, the day is inseparable from the right the founders wrote into law fifteen years later: the Second Amendment.
ArchiveSCOTUS Takes the AR-15 Case — Bans in 6 States Now on the Clock
The Supreme Court just took the AR-15 case — and every assault weapon ban in America is now one ruling away from the trash heap of unconstitutional law.
litigationSupreme Court Takes Up AR-15 Bans — Viramontes and Grant Cases Granted for Next Term
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will hear arguments next term on whether bans on AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles violate the Second Amendment — consolidating an Illinois man's challenge to Cook County's ordinance with gun owners' challenge to Connecticut's state law.
ArchiveSCOTUS Just Forced NJ to Defend Its AR-15 Ban — and It Can't
New Jersey built its entire AR-15 ban defense on one claim — and the Supreme Court just incinerated it.
litigationGOA and VCDL Win Block on Virginia 'Assault Weapons' Ban Days Before July 1
Gun Owners of America and the Virginia Citizens Defense League say they secured a preliminary injunction June 25 in Crump v. Katz, blocking Virginia State Police from enforcing Governor Abigail Spanberger's assault-weapons and magazine ban while the constitutional challenge moves forward.
court_watchSCOTUS Kills Hawaii's Carry 'Vampire Rule' in 6–3 Wolford Win
The Supreme Court on June 25, 2026 struck down Hawaii's so-called vampire rule in Wolford v. Lopez, holding 6–3 that states cannot presume concealed-carry permit holders are trespassers the moment they walk into a gas station, restaurant, or shop unless the property owner expressly invites the gun in.
ArchiveVirginia's AR Ban Is 6 Days Out — Wednesday Is the Last Exit
Wednesday morning, two judges hold the only thing standing between Virginia gun owners and a July 1 felony trap — and one court has already said no.
ArchivePepper Spray Failed. Her .45 Didn't. He's Alive. So Is She.
A Fort Worth woman tried it the gun-control way first. Pepper spray. It failed. Her firearm didn't. Both of them survived — because she had a backup the disarmament lobby wants to take away.
Archive9-0: SCOTUS Guts the Feds' Blank Check to Disarm You
Every single Supreme Court justice — including the ones who despise your gun rights — just told the federal government it cannot disarm an American citizen for smoking marijuana. The 9-0 ruling in United States v. Hemani rewrites the rules for every federal gun ban going forward.
ArchiveKim's New Bill Would Torch the Last Wall Against a Gun Registry
Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) just introduced a bill to repeal the Tiahrt Amendment — the only federal law standing between your gun purchase records and a permanent, searchable government database.
ArchiveCast Bullets Killing Your Revolver? Here's the 20-Min Fix
If you're running cast lead bullets through your revolver and skipping the deep-clean, you're silently killing your accuracy — and one bad session away from a locked cylinder.
ArchiveSCOTUS Just Handed Letitia James a Kill Switch for Gun Makers
The Supreme Court didn't even write a sentence. Two words — 'Petition DENIED' — and Letitia James just got the most dangerous anti-gun weapon in America gift-wrapped by silence.
ArchiveOhio Just Broke the Federal Gun-Ban Trap — 6 to 1
Ohio's Supreme Court just ruled 6-1 that the government can't use a conviction twice — once to ban you, then again to block you from ever getting your rights back.
ArchiveMissouri Just Created Armed School Rangers — Every Dem Voted No
Missouri just built the most serious school defense program in the country — and every single Democrat in the legislature voted to kill it.
ArchiveTaurus Built an MP5 Clone for $700 and It's Embarrassing $2,000 PCCs
Taurus just put a roller-delayed, MP5-action 9mm carbine with a 32-round magazine on the street for $700—and it shoots softer than PCCs that cost three times as much.
ArchiveDelaware Court Could Nuke Every Under-21 Gun Ban in America
Gavin Birney wanted to buy a rifle before his 21st birthday. Delaware made that a felony. Now the Delaware Supreme Court is deciding whether that was constitutional — and a single ruling could detonate under-21 gun bans across 18 states.
ArchiveVA Judge Kills Gun-Ban Hearing—19 Days Until You're a Criminal
A Lancaster County judge just yanked Virginia gun owners' emergency hearing off the docket—and with 19 days until SB749 turns AR-15 owners into criminals, there is now zero judicial cover standing between law-abiding Virginians and a felony charge.
ArchiveForce Recon Still Runs the 1911. Here's Their Exact Build.
While the internet argues about round count, active-duty Force Reconnaissance Marines are running a John Browning design from 1911 downrange—on real deployments, right now.
ArchiveDOJ Names Philly's Mayor in Federal 2A Probe — Permits Canceled on 'Vibes'
Philadelphia has been revoking residents' gun permits on criteria so vague the city cannot legally define them — and now the U.S. Department of Justice has put Mayor Cherelle Parker's name on a federal civil rights letter.
ArchiveSCOTUS Drops Two 2A Bombs Before July—Hawaii & Weed
Within weeks, the Supreme Court will either gut Hawaii's de facto carry ban and protect millions of gun owners from losing their rights over marijuana—or hand anti-gun courts the crowbar they've been begging for.
ArchiveTwo Armed Strangers Stopped a Missouri Massacre—Chief Says So
A man yanked a rifle from his car and opened fire in a Missouri grocery store parking lot on Memorial Day. Two armed citizens heard the shots — and moved toward them.
ArchiveMD Court: Suspecting You're Armed Is NOT a Crime
A Maryland appellate court just told Baltimore police what the Supreme Court already made clear: suspecting someone is legally armed is not a reason to stop them.
ArchiveCongress Killed the $200 Tax. The Feds Kept Your Fingerprints.
The federal government collected $0 in suppressor taxes this year—and is still fingerprinting, photographing, and registering every buyer in a national database it can no longer legally justify keeping.
ArchiveAero Precision Is in Receivership. Your Order May Not Survive.
Four of the most-trusted names in the AR-15 market just lost control of their own companies—and if you have an open order, a warranty claim, or a dealer account with any of them, the clock is already running.
Archive$263 Press Makes Politicians' Ammo Taxes Irrelevant
They can't tax ammo you made yourself — and for $263, a proven progressive press puts that power on your workbench.
ArchiveYour AR-15 Can Run a Belt — No NFA Stamp, No Apologies
Anti-gun politicians have spent thirty years insisting you don't need more than ten rounds. The FightLite MCR just showed up with a belt.
ArchiveDelaware Lost in Court. Appealed Anyway. Now 18-Year-Olds Could Be Criminals.
A Delaware court already ruled it unconstitutional. The state's AG refused to accept that and appealed — and now the Delaware Supreme Court is deciding whether 18-to-20-year-old adults are criminals for owning a handgun that the U.S. military trusts them to carry into combat.
ArchiveVirginia AG: Your State Constitution Doesn't Protect Your Guns
Virginia's own attorney general just walked into federal court and argued that the Virginia Constitution gives you zero individual right to own a firearm — and he wants judges to ignore Heller and Bruen while they're at it.
ArchiveDOJ Opens Federal Probe Into Philly's Carry Permit Revocations
The Trump DOJ just opened a federal civil rights investigation into Philadelphia's carry permit practices — and Mayor Cherelle Parker has some hard questions to answer.