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10th Circuit to Colorado: Not So Fast on Ghost Gun Ban
Colorado's war on unserialized firearms just hit a federal wall—and the Tenth Circuit sent the case back with orders to actually consider shutting the ban down.
legislationGreen Beret Congressman's Bill: SOF Vets Can Carry Anywhere
The men who hunted terrorists in the dark can't legally carry a pistol in California. Rep. Pat Harrigan just introduced a bill to end that insult.
legislationThey Want Your Gun Records Forever—One Hearing Stops Them
One bill. One hearing. One date—April 28—and the only federal law protecting 100 million gun owners from a permanent government purchase registry goes on trial.
atf actionDOJ Is Quietly Reloading the ATF Brace War
Gun owners beat ATF in court — and now DOJ is filing paperwork that suggests the government isn't done trying to take your brace.
state lawTherapist on TV, Gun Control in the Bill: Virginia's Soft-Power Trap
They finally figured out that Bloomberg lobbyists make gun owners dig in—so now they're sending therapists.
court ruling10th Circuit Just Cracked Colorado's Ghost Gun Law Open
Colorado built its ghost gun law on a federal foundation that the Supreme Court may be about to demolish—and the 10th Circuit just forced a lower court to stare directly at that problem.
threatWyoming Just Handed Anti-Gun Lawyers Their Biggest Win of 2025
You stop a violent criminal. You survive. Then you lose everything anyway—in civil court. Wyoming just voted to keep it that way.
court rulingSCOTUS to Decide: Can Feds Strip Gun Rights from 44M Cannabis Users?
Right now, every single one of the 44 million Americans who used marijuana last year is a federal firearms felon the moment they touch a gun — and the Supreme Court is finally being asked if that's constitutional.
editorialThe 'Therapist Trick': Gun Control's Softest New Weapon
They couldn't sell you gun control, so now a credentialed professional is trying to *therapy* it into you—and Virginia is the test lab.
threatWyoming Just Betrayed Its Own Gun Owners—Is Your State Next?
Wyoming—the state that practically invented constitutional carry—just left its armed citizens naked in the courtroom, quietly killing a bill that would have stopped law-abiding gun owners from losing everything after a justified self-defense shooting.
court rulingSCOTUS to Feds: Prove It or Lose the Gun Ban on Pot Users
Buy legal weed Monday, buy a legal gun Tuesday—under federal law, you're a felon by Wednesday.
threatThey Take Your Guns Before You Can Say a Word
In 21 states plus D.C., law enforcement can show up at your door and seize every legally owned firearm you have—based on nothing more than someone else's accusation, signed off by a judge who never heard your side.
state lawMichigan's Own Courts Expose the Red Flag Trap
Michigan's court system just published the receipts on its own red flag law — and the numbers prove what gun owners have been warning about since day one.
state lawSC Makes Red Flag Enforcement a FELONY—6 States Moving Fast
South Carolina just turned the tables on red flag enforcers—any officer, bureaucrat, or court official who shows up to seize a law-abiding citizen's firearms without a full hearing and jury trial is now looking at a felony charge.
court rulingSCOTUS Dodges 2A Cases—Lower Courts Keep Gutting Your Rights
The Supreme Court just walked away from two major Second Amendment fights, and somewhere in California, New York, and Illinois, a rogue judge is smiling.
court rulingSCOTUS Had 18 Chances to Defend 2A. It Took Zero.
Eighteen Second Amendment petitions walked into the Supreme Court's conference last week. Eighteen walked out unanswered—and the justices knew exactly what they were doing.
atf actionATF Won't Tell You Which Braces Are Illegal—Until Arrest
The Biden brace rule is dead—and the ATF is using its grave as a trap.
threatGuilty Until Proven Innocent: How Red Flag Laws Work
They don't need to arrest you. They don't need to charge you. Under red flag laws, they just need someone to sign a piece of paper—and your guns are already gone.
state lawMichigan's Own Courts Just Exposed the Red Flag Machine
Michigan's own courts just handed Second Amendment advocates a weapon—hard judicial data proving exactly how many gun owners lost their firearms before they ever set foot in a courtroom.
state law5 States Just Made Red Flag Enforcement a Felony
Five Republican-led states are moving to make it a felony to enforce red flag confiscation orders — and the Bloomberg-funded press is panicking like it hasn't in years.
atf actionBrace Rule Is Dead—ATF Says It Can Still Nail You Anyway
The federal courts killed the ATF's pistol brace rule—and the ATF's response was to shrug and keep coming.
legislationSEALs & Green Berets Can't Carry in California. This Bill Ends That.
The same government that hands a Green Beret a sniper rifle and drops him behind enemy lines will let California tell him he can't carry a pistol to the grocery store — and Congress just introduced a bill to make that absurdity illegal in all 50 states.
state lawVirginia Just Banned Semi-Autos — Litigation Is the Last Line
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed a semi-automatic firearms ban into law — targeting the most common guns in America, the exact category the Supreme Court said government cannot touch.
legislationVets Bled for This Country — Now Congress Says Carry Nationwide
Retired FBI agents can carry concealed in all 50 states. Combat veterans who wrote a blank check to this country cannot. A bill moving through Congress is about to make that double standard impossible to ignore.
threatSCOTUS Had 18 Shots to Defend 2A—Took Zero
Eighteen Second Amendment petitions sat in front of the Supreme Court last week. The justices passed on every last one—then took a related case and carved the gun questions out of it like they were never there.
legislationDelta Force Vet Can't Carry. Retired Cop Can. Harrigan's Fix.
A Delta Force operator who spent a career clearing buildings in Kandahar can't carry a firearm under federal authority once he separates — but the retired beat cop from Akron can. That's not a policy. That's an insult.
threatSeized Before You're Charged: The ERPO Trap Explained
They don't need a crime. They don't need a conviction. They need one willing judge, one ex parte hearing you'll never attend, and about 24 hours.
threatMichigan's Own Courts Confess: Red Flags Strip Guns Before You Speak
Michigan's own court system just published the receipts—and they're a confession.
atf actionATF Won't Tell You Which Braces Are Illegal—Until It's Too Late
The Biden brace rule is dead, you put your brace back on, and ATF is still building cases against braced-pistol owners—while deliberately refusing to tell you which configurations will land you in federal court.
state lawSC Bill Makes Red Flag Enforcement a Felony
South Carolina Republicans just made enforcing a red flag order a felony—and the Bloomberg-funded gun-control press is running a 1,300-word panic attack trying to stop it.
court ruling10th Circuit Revives Colorado Ghost Gun Fight — State Ban Now Exposed
Colorado's ghost gun ban just lost its legal shield — and the Second Amendment Foundation is moving in for the kill.
legislationDems Move to Kill Gun-Owner Privacy Apr. 28
In days, a congressional subcommittee will put the last wall standing between your gun records and a permanent federal database on the witness stand.
state lawSpanberger Signs 3 Gun Bans—Virginia Just Got a Lot Less Free
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just signed three gun-control bills into law—and with a single pen stroke, she turned law-abiding Virginians into potential criminals for exercising rights the Constitution guarantees.
court rulingSCOTUS Had 18 Gun-Rights Cases—It Dodged Every Single One
Eighteen Second Amendment petitions sat on the Supreme Court's conference table April 24, 2026—and the justices walked away from every last one of them.
legislationVets Cleared Fallujah. Now They Beg CA for a Carry Permit.
The Marine who cleared houses in Fallujah under fire has to grovel to California for a carry permit—while a federal bureaucrat who never touched a weapon in anger retires with nationwide concealed carry on day one.
legislationBlue States Can't Disarm SEALs Anymore—This Bill Says So
A retired Delta Force operator can neutralize a threat in the dark with his bare hands—but right now, New York says he needs a clerk's permission slip to carry a gun on a public sidewalk.
legislationGreen Berets Can't Carry in Chicago. Harrigan's Bill Ends That.
A Delta Force operator who spent a decade killing America's enemies overseas can't legally carry a pistol walking through downtown Chicago—and a congressman who wore that uniform just introduced the bill to end that disgrace.
threatWyoming Killed Gun Owners' Legal Shield — No State Is Safe
Wyoming just handed anti-gun lawyers their biggest proof of concept yet: you don't need to beat the Second Amendment in court — you just have to make it too expensive to use.
atf actionATF Won't List Illegal Braces — You Find Out at Arrest
The Biden brace rule is dead — and ATF is using that victory to hide something far more dangerous: a secret enforcement standard that could turn millions of law-abiding gun owners into federal criminals without a single word of warning.
editorialThe 'Gun Safety' Con: Control Dressed in a Therapist's Voice
They stopped calling it gun control. Now they call it 'gun safety'—and they hired a therapist to make it sound like medicine.
court rulingSCOTUS Could Restore Gun Rights for 40M+ Legal Weed Users
Forty million Americans are living inside a federal trap right now: use marijuana legally under your state's law, and the U.S. government says you forfeit your Second Amendment rights — forever, no hearing, no individual finding of danger required.
court ruling10th Circuit Cracks Colorado's Ghost Gun Ban Wide Open
Colorado thought it could criminalize a firearm that existed legally for the entire history of this republic—the Tenth Circuit just said: not so fast.
atf actionATF Lost on Braces—Now Running a Backdoor End-Run
The ATF took its brace rule to court, got demolished, and apparently decided the lesson was: try a different angle on the same tens of millions of guns.
state lawSpanberger Just Signed VA's Semi-Auto Ban—NRA Says See You in Court
Virginia's new governor signed a semi-automatic firearms ban, age-based gun restrictions, and concealed carry crackdowns into law this week—and the NRA-ILA says every single bill is unconstitutional.
legislationApr. 28: Congress Puts the Last Wall Against a Gun Registry on Trial
There is one set of laws keeping the federal government from building a searchable registry of every gun and every gun owner in America — and on April 28, Congress puts them in the hot seat.
court rulingSCOTUS to Decide: Can Feds Strip Your Guns for Legal Weed?
Right now, today, millions of Americans who own guns and use state-legal marijuana are federal felons—and the Supreme Court is about to decide whether that insanity survives the Constitution.
legislationFeds Carry in All 50 States. Vets Who Bled for Them Can't.
A federal bureaucrat with a badge can carry a concealed firearm in all 50 states. The Marine who kicked in doors in Fallujah so that bureaucrat could keep his desk job cannot.
state lawWyoming Just Made Self-Defense Unaffordable—No Excuses
You survived the attack. You were justified. Now hand your lawyer $150,000—because Wyoming Republicans, with zero anti-gun excuses on the table, just killed the bill that would have stopped that from happening.
legislationGreen Berets Can't Carry in Chicago. This Bill Fixes That.
The same Green Beret who cleared rooms in Fallujah can be arrested for carrying a pistol in downtown Chicago. A new House bill just called that what it is: insane.
editorialVA Therapist's 'Gun Safety' Pitch Is Gun Control With a Smile
A Virginia therapist is making media rounds selling gun control—she's just not calling it that.