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You Can Walk Out With the Can. SilencerCo Says Don’t Cross the State Line.
The injunction opened the counter. It did not open the highway. SilencerCo just wrote that down.
self defenseChesnee, 2 A.M.: A Stranger Forced the House. The Homeowner Ended It.
The call came at two in the morning. The stranger was already inside. South Carolina’s Castle Doctrine is not a slogan when the door is open.
litigationMaryland Issued the Permit — Then Banned Carry Where People Actually Go
Bruen forced Maryland to issue the paper. Annapolis answered by making the paper useless. The reply brief is the receipt.
litigation27 States Just Told SCOTUS: An AR Ban Cannot Depend on Your Zip Code
Cook County and Connecticut banned the rifle. Twenty-seven states just told the Supreme Court that is not how a constitutional right works. Geography is not a loophole.
crimeCedar Hill: A Chase Customer Stopped a Knife Robbery Before Police Did
The police response clock starts when someone calls. The robbery starts when the knife comes out. In Cedar Hill those were not the same moment.
litigationThird Circuit: Machine Guns Aren’t Heller Arms — Silencer Registration Survives Too
The Third Circuit will strike a rifle ban and still treat a machine gun like a wartime leftover. That split is now in a published opinion.
litigationHawaii Used Contract Law to Keep 18-Year-Olds Unarmed — and Closed the Case
You can vote. You can enlist. In Hawaii you still cannot buy a rifle from a dealer, or take one as a gift from your mother, until you turn 21.
federalDOJ Put Nine Names in the Federal Register. 925(c) Is No Longer a Dead Letter.
For three decades § 925(c) sat unused. The August 27 Federal Register is the first public list of people whose federal firearms disabilities were lifted under the revived process.
atf regulationFour Weeks After the NFA Injunction, ATF Still Hasn’t Posted the Rules
Dealers are transferring cans. States are still treating them like NFA items. Washington has had a month and has not put the compliance map on paper.
litigation26 Million AR Owners Are Now in the Supreme Court Record
Cook County and Connecticut banned the rifle. The petitioners just filed the numbers. Twenty-six million owners is not a niche hobby.
litigationA Georgia Trucker Asked SCOTUS: Why Does Carry Die at the Minnesota Line?
The Second Amendment follows the citizen. The Eighth Circuit treated it like a state sticker. A Georgia trucker just asked the Supreme Court to pick.
regulationATF’s July Form 4 Wait: 9 Days on eForms, 8-Day Median — 6.6 Million Cans on the Books
The wait that used to be measured in seasons is now measured in days for an individual eForm 4. The National Firearms Act did not go away. The queue did.
legislationSB 948 Cleared Both Houses. The Live-Fire FSC Bill Goes to Newsom Next.
Monday the bill was still on the floor. Tuesday the last legislative vote landed. Engrossing and enrolling is the clerk’s step before Gavin Newsom sees it.
federalNIST Told Congress Microstamping Is Disputed Science — Not a Proven Crime Tool
Gun-control offices treat microstamping as settled. NIST told the House it has not researched it, has no workstream, and that the published record is in significant disagreement.
state lawPhiladelphia Democrat Wants ‘Designees’ Inspecting Every Pennsylvania Gun Store
Three thousand FFLs. Annual inspections by whoever the State Police deputizes. A ‘disproportionate share’ of traces as the tripwire. That is the memo. There is still no bill text.
litigationLouisiana Tried to Drag DOJ Into an Under-21 Carry Fight. The Judge Said No.
Louisiana will let an 18-year-old carry without a permit. It will not give that adult the license that punches a hole in the federal school-zone ban. The state wanted Washington in the case. It lost that move.
crimeFBI: Murder Rate Ties 1955 — The Lowest in the Bureau’s Recorded History
The gun-control lobby spent a decade promising a bloodbath. The FBI’s 2025 tables show a 70-year-low murder rate.
legislationCalifornia’s Last Legislative Week: 3-D Printer Controls and a Four-Hour Live-Fire Certificate Are Still Alive
The FFL-killer package died in committee. This week’s floor list is the next incremental pile.
litigationBoston Judge Keeps Massachusetts’ Under-21 Gun Ban — Adults Who Can Vote Still Can’t Carry
Eighteen is old enough for a ballot, a contract, and a rifle in uniform. In Massachusetts it is still not old enough for a handgun.
litigation9th Circuit Tosses California and Giffords: They Couldn’t Prove the Ghost-Gun Rule Wasn’t Harsh Enough
Giffords sued because the kit rule had a hole. The Ninth Circuit said they never proved the hole hurt them.
litigationLA’s CCW Backlog Cracked — DOJ Drops Its First Affirmative 2A Suit After LASD Meets the 90-Day Clock
A permit delayed three years is a permit denied. Los Angeles County just got forced to stop running that play.
atf regulationDOJ Opens a Real 925(c) Door — Restoration Is an Application, Not an Amnesty
Congress left a restoration statute on the books and then starved it. Blanche just stood up the process again.
litigationTexas Judge Strikes the Biden Ghost-Gun Rule — After SCOTUS Already Upheld ATF’s Power to Write It
The Supreme Court said ATF had the statute. A Texas judge just said the Constitution still vetoes the kit ban.
state legislationFive California Gun Bills Reach the Floor — The FFL-Killer Bill Died in Committee
Sacramento moved five gun bills to floor votes on August 13. One dealer-killer stopped. The rest did not.
litigationNRA, SAF and FPC Sue New York Over Its Glock-Style Handgun Ban
New York turned a trigger-bar geometry into a handgun ban. The complaint landed August 14.
atf regulationATF’s Cekada Defends the Reform Package — NRA Says the Agency Is Finally Correcting the Record
Gun-control groups called the ATF reform docket a public-safety collapse. The director put the receipts in The Hill.
litigationClyde and Plaintiff-State AGs Press DOJ: Make the NFA Ruling Work Nationwide
The political pressure is one demand: stop administering two NFA systems.
atf regulationNSSF to Dealers: The NFA Win Is Live — But the Compliance Map Is a Minefield
Do not read a plaintiff-limited injunction as a nationwide repeal. NSSF just put that in writing for every FFL.
litigationDOJ Let the NFA Injunction Take Effect — Then the First Unregistered Suppressor Transfers Followed
The emergency deadline passed. The paperwork regime for covered suppressors is no longer theoretical — it stopped.
litigationWisconsin Court: Foster Parents Can’t Be Forced Into Extra Gun Rules
Signing up to foster shouldn’t mean listing your guns for the state like a parolee.
state legislationNorth Carolina Constitutional Carry Is One House Vote From Law — Clock Ticking
Almost every red-legislature state already has permitless carry. North Carolina is stuck in the veto graveyard — for now.
atf regulationATF Wants Same-State Guns Shipped to Your Door — NICS Still Required
If you live hours from a dealer, ATF is finally proposing to treat Title I firearms more like the remote transfer world NFA buyers already know.
litigation5th Circuit Tees Up the Question: Is a Living-Room Gun Really Interstate Commerce?
A handgun in a New Orleans living room is a lot of things. Interstate commerce may not be one of them.
cultureFree Press Culture Shift: Ex-Park Slope Mom Asks, “Should I Get a Gun?”
The cultural tell isn’t a SCOTUS cert grant. It’s a blue-city writer admitting the anti-gun story stopped making sense.
atf regulationClyde to ATF: Cap 4473 Retention at 20 Years — And Destroy the Digital Registry
ATF’s “reform” retention rule still smells like a registry. House gun-rights members just put that in writing.
litigationDOJ Sues Montgomery County — Wolford Says Daily Carry Can’t Be a Maze of Gun-Free Bubbles
The Justice Department just told a Maryland county that Wolford wasn’t a suggestion.
litigationTexas Judge: NFA Registry for Suppressors and SBRs Is Unconstitutional
A Northern District of Texas judge just told ATF it cannot keep a gun registry for items Congress stopped taxing.
atf regulationATF Comment Clock Ends Today — NRA Just Filed on Straw Buys, 4473s, and Dealer Rules
If you were waiting to tell ATF how reform should actually work, the window is hours from slamming shut.
litigationVirginia’s AR Ban Stays Dead — Court Locks Injunction Until SCOTUS Rules
A Virginia state judge just froze the litigation clock on Richmond’s assault-firearm ban — and left the statewide injunction running the whole time.
ArchiveKelTec's $511 Folder Now Shoots the Round That Beats Soft Armor
KelTec just stuffed a NATO armor-defeating round into a carbine that folds smaller than your laptop and costs $511 out the door.
ArchiveTrump Yanks Suppressors From State Dept. — Manufacturers Win Big
The Trump administration just ripped suppressor exports out of the State Department's Cold War weapons-control framework and handed oversight to the Commerce Department — a regulatory gut-punch to bureaucrats who spent years treating hunters' ear protection like Javelin missiles.
ArchiveThe Number That Could Kill Your AR-15 (And SCOTUS Invented It)
Your AR-15 isn't protected by the Second Amendment right now — it's protected by a headcount, and one Second Amendment plaintiff says that loophole is a loaded gun aimed straight at your rights.
ArchiveVirginia Just Told a Court You Have No Individual Gun Rights
Virginia's lawyers just walked into a courtroom and argued your right to keep and bear arms isn't yours — it belongs to the militia, and the state decides what that means.
ArchiveDSA Published a 28th Amendment. It Bans Every Gun That Reloads.
The Democratic Socialists of America put it in writing, on their own website, in plain English: repeal the Second Amendment and replace it with a constitutional ban on every pump-action, semi-automatic, and automatic firearm in America — and they had the audacity to call it a compromise.
Archive7 Groups Just Stormed Maryland's Highest Court Over Its Carry Permit Blacklist
Maryland has a policy: your carry permit means nothing here. Seven major Second Amendment organizations just showed up at the state's highest court and told them to try defending that in writing.
ArchiveLouisiana Says 18-Year-Olds Can Carry — Then Traps Them in 1,300 Invisible Gun-Free Zones
Louisiana handed 18-year-olds the right to carry a handgun — then quietly surrounded them with 1,300 invisible federal felony zones they can never legally escape.
ArchiveOhio Fair: Check Your Gun at the Barn Door
Ohio is a shall-issue state. The Ohio State Fair opens July 23. And a state bureaucracy just decided that a prize-winning pig is worth more than your constitutional right — the moment you cross a barn threshold, you're disarmed and on your own.
ArchiveTrump's DOJ to USVI: Your AR-15 Ban Is Illegal — Back Down
The Justice Department just told the U.S. Virgin Islands what Biden's DOJ never would: your ban on AR-15s and standard-capacity magazines violates the Constitution, the Third Circuit already said so, and you don't get to ignore it.
ArchiveHe Died at His Desk in 1926. His Pistol Still Breaks Their Ban Logic.
John Browning's heart stopped inside the FN factory on November 26, 1926 — blueprints spread across his desk, pistol unfinished. That pistol went on to arm over 50 nations, outlast the Soviet Union, and make every 'high-capacity' magazine ban look exactly as stupid as it is.
legislationNew 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.