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Cedar 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.
legislationBill Gives Special Ops Troops Nationwide Carry Rights
A new House bill would let America's most lethal warriors carry a firearm in all 50 states — ending the national disgrace of elite operators turned into criminals the moment they cross a state line.
legislationVeterans Deserve Nationwide Carry Rights — This Bill Delivers
Congress just dropped legislation that would give America's veterans what they earned in blood: the right to carry concealed firearms in all 50 states, no permission slip required.
court rulingPistol Braces Are Legal in 2025 — Know Your Rights
The ATF tried to turn 40 million law-abiding gun owners into felons overnight — and the courts crushed it.
legislationGreen Berets Shouldn't Need Permission to Carry
A combat-tested Green Beret who survived deployments to the world's most dangerous hellholes shouldn't have to beg a blue-state bureaucrat for permission to carry a firearm.
threatMichigan's Red Flag Report Exposes Mass Gun Seizures
Michigan's own court system just handed Second Amendment advocates a loaded weapon: a judicial report proving the state's red flag law disarms law-abiding citizens at scale — before any criminal charge is filed.
atf actionDOJ Filing Reveals ATF Still Targeting Pistol Brace Owners
The ATF's war on braced pistols is alive — a new DOJ legal filing proves the agency is still hunting for a way to turn millions of law-abiding gun owners into felons.
threatRed Flag Laws Let Courts Seize Your Guns Without a Crime
The government can take your guns before you've done anything wrong — and it's already happening in more than 20 states.
atf actionATF Hunts Brace Owners While Hiding the Rules
The ATF is threatening gun owners with federal prosecution over pistol braces while flatly refusing to identify which configurations are actually illegal — and that's not a gray area, that's a trap.
state lawEnforcing Red Flag Orders Now a Felony in South Carolina
South Carolina just made enforcing a red flag gun confiscation order a felony — and a wave of GOP states is moving fast to follow.
victoryDOJ Drops Defense of Biden's ATF Dealer Overreach Rule
The DOJ just surrendered in court rather than defend Biden's ATF power grab against private gun sellers.
atf actionATF Brace Rule Dies — Agency Claims SBRs Anyway
The ATF's pistol brace rule is dead — and the agency is already maneuvering to keep millions of law-abiding gun owners in legal jeopardy anyway.
atf actionTrump's ATF Keeps Biden Ghost Gun Rule — No End in Sight
Trump's ATF is enforcing Biden's gun rule — and gun owners who voted for change are getting stonewalled.
court rulingSCOTUS Will Decide Who Can Be Disarmed — And Where
The Supreme Court is about to draw lines that will define your Second Amendment rights for a generation — and the pressure points are already under assault.
atf actionATF's Billion-Record Gun Registry Exposed at Senate Hearing
The ATF has quietly amassed over one billion records on American gun owners — and a Senate hearing just made sure no lawmaker can claim ignorance.
legislationHarrigan Bill Gives Special Ops Nationwide Carry Rights
The men who hunt terrorists in the dark shouldn't have to disarm when they come home — and Congressman Pat Harrigan is done letting that stand.
court rulingSCOTUS Ducks 2A Cases — The Fight Falls Back to Us
The Supreme Court just handed anti-gun politicians a gift: two major Second Amendment cases rejected without a word of explanation, leaving unconstitutional restrictions standing across multiple circuits.
atf actionATF's Pistol Brace Rule: 40 Million Gun Owners Targeted
The ATF's 2023 pistol brace rule threatened 40 million law-abiding Americans with felony charges overnight — no congressional vote, no democratic process, just a bureaucratic decree.
legislationBill Would Let Special Forces Vets Carry in All 50 States
America's most elite warriors can storm terrorist compounds overseas but get legally disarmed the moment they cross into California — a new House bill aims to end that absurdity.
legislationCongress Moves to Arm Special Ops Troops in All 50 States
Congress just introduced a bill that strips blue-state bureaucrats of their power to disarm the most elite warriors America has ever produced.
victoryPistol Braces Are Legal in 2025 — Know Your Rights
The ATF spent years trying to turn millions of law-abiding gun owners into felons overnight — and they lost.
threatOklahoma Restores Gun Rights While Rhode Island Eyes Your Freedoms
Rhode Island Senate Democrats are keeping two radical anti-2A bills alive — and they're counting on gun owners not paying attention.
legislationVeterans Deserve Nationwide Carry — Bill Would Make It Law
America's veterans carried weapons defending your freedom overseas — now a new bill would let them carry one at home, anywhere in the country.
atf actionATF Enforces Brace Laws — Refuses to Say Which Ones
The ATF is prosecuting Americans over braced pistols right now — and deliberately refusing to tell gun owners which configurations will land them in handcuffs.
court rulingSCOTUS Takes Aim at Federal Gun Ban for Pot Users
A federal law criminalizes gun ownership for millions of legal marijuana users — and the Supreme Court may finally kill it.
legislationSOF Warriors Deserve Carry Rights: Harrigan's Bill Delivers
America's most elite warriors — Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta operators — can hunt terrorists across the globe but can't legally carry in California. Rep. Pat Harrigan's new bill ends that absurdity.
court rulingATF's Brace Rule Is Dead — But Your AR Pistol Isn't Safe Yet
Federal courts vacated the ATF's 2023 pistol brace rule — but millions of AR pistol owners still don't know where they stand, and that ignorance could land them in federal prison.
atf actionDOJ Filing Proves ATF Still Hunting Your Pistol Brace
The DOJ just reminded every pistol brace owner in America that the federal government's appetite to criminalize their legally purchased property is far from dead.
state lawSpanberger Signs Sweeping Anti-Gun Package in Virginia
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed a sweeping anti-gun legislative package into law Monday, delivering one of the most aggressive assaults on Second Amendment rights in the Commonwealth's recent history.
atf actionATF Still Calling Some Braced Pistols SBRs After Losing in Court
The ATF lost in court, but the agency is still working to turn law-abiding gun owners into felons over pistol braces.
victoryDOJ Drops Defense of ATF's Overreaching FFL Rule
The Department of Justice just waved the white flag on one of the ATF's most aggressive power grabs in recent memory — and gun owners won.
legislationGOP Bill: Let Special Forces Carry Nationwide
A Republican congressman wants to ensure that the men and women who defend America overseas can also defend themselves at home—without worrying about which state line they just crossed.
ArchiveHouse Bill Would Let Special Ops Heroes Carry Nationwide
The warriors who hunted terrorists in the world's most dangerous hellholes may finally get the right to carry a concealed firearm in all 50 states.
ArchiveATF Hoards 1 Billion Gun Records — Senate Finally Wakes Up
The ATF has stockpiled over one billion firearm transaction records — and a Senate hearing just exposed what Second Amendment advocates have been warning about for years: an illegal backdoor gun registry.
ArchiveGreen Beret Congressman Moves to Arm America's Elite Warriors
A Green Beret congressman just introduced legislation that treats America's most elite warriors like the trained professionals they are—giving them the same nationwide carry rights federal agents already enjoy.
ArchiveVICTORY: DOJ Abandons Defense of ATF's Licensing Power Grab
The Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss Texas v. ATF, effectively abandoning defense of a rule that would have turned countless private gun sellers into felons overnight.
ArchiveATF's Secret Gun Registry Exposed: 1 Billion Records and Counting
The ATF is sitting on over one billion firearm transaction records—a de facto gun registry built while Congress was told everything was fine.
state lawVA Gov. Spanberger Rams Through Midnight Gun Control Package
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger waited until hours before a midnight deadline Monday to launch her assault on Second Amendment rights — submitting sweeping gun control amendments while most Virginians slept.
atf actionATF Pistol Brace Rule: Regulatory Nightmare That Won't Die
With a stroke of a pen, the ATF attempted to turn millions of law-abiding Americans into felons overnight—and the regulatory chaos continues.
state lawVA Gov. Spanberger Rams Through Gun Control in Midnight Power Play
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed sweeping gun control legislation Monday in an eleventh-hour power play, pushing through last-minute amendments just hours before the deadline—dodging public scrutiny while dismantling firearm rights for law-abiding Virginians.