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Virginia 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.
ArchiveFlorida Folded: 3-Day Gun Wait Is Dead by Court Order
Florida didn't lose in court—it quit. State officials accepted a Rule 68 offer of judgment in Dunn v. Glass on June 5, surrendering to a permanent federal injunction rather than let a judge make it even worse for them.
ArchiveThe $200 Scope That Embarrasses $400 Red Dots
Your battery dies at 2 a.m. and your red dot goes black—but if you'd bought this $200 ZeroTech, you'd still be on target.
ArchiveDaily Kos Is Lying to Your Face About This SCOTUS Gun Case
Daily Kos told its readers the Trump administration is 'challenging the Second Amendment' at the Supreme Court. That is not spin. That is a deliberate inversion of reality—and they built it to weaponize your confusion against you.
ArchiveCA Lawyer Can't Name One CCW Holder—9th Circuit Smells Blood
California sent a lawyer to the full Ninth Circuit to defend its open carry ban—and he couldn't tell the court how many concealed carry permits the state has actually issued. That's not a stumble. That's the whole argument dying on a live mic.
ArchiveBarrett Just Dropped Armor-Killing NGSW Rounds Into the MK 22
Barrett Firearms is testing a 6.8x51mm conversion kit for the Army's MK 22 — dropping the same round engineered to shred modern body armor at distance directly into the most capable multi-caliber sniper chassis ever fielded.
ArchiveYour Church Lobbies to Disarm You—Then Hires Armed Guards
Six of America's largest Christian denominations are spending your offering dollars to lobby Congress for gun control—then paying armed guards to protect the very buildings where they preach it.
ArchiveBear Spray In Your Pack Is Useless—Trainer's 23-Year Data Proves It
A bear closes 35 mph. You have under two seconds. Whether you reach for spray or steel is the wrong question—where you carry it is the only one that matters.
ArchiveFlorida AG Sues His Own State to Kill the Waiting Period
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier just filed against his own state's firearm waiting period — joining the NRA's federal lawsuit demanding a judge strike Florida Statute §790.0655 as flatly unconstitutional.
ArchiveSteal From a Gun Store, Do Federal Time—Graham's Bill Is Here
Sen. Lindsey Graham just introduced a bill that does the one thing gun-control zealots have spent decades refusing to do: punish the criminal who steals the gun, not the dealer who sold it legally.
ArchiveYour EDC Is Three Years Stale. Tonight's the Night.
You've been carrying the same unaudited setup for three years, and the anti-gun lobby is praying you never notice the problem before they do.
ArchiveSmall Shop Cracked the Physics Every Big Gun Maker Ignored
SIG, Glock, and Smith & Wesson had the engineers, the budgets, and the whiteboards — and a small American shop still beat them to it.
ArchiveBloomberg's Gang-Outreach Slush Fund Just Lost Its Federal Piggybank
Everytown for Gun Safety is in full meltdown mode—and their own report accidentally hands you every reason the Trump administration was right to pull the plug.
ArchiveSchool Ordered a 9-Year-Old to Remove His History Hat
A 9-year-old walked into school wearing a hat stamped with one of the most defiant phrases in American history, and a school administrator told him to take it off. The phrase survived a cannon standoff in 1835. It didn't survive third grade.
ArchiveShort Scopes Are Selling Fast—Here's What They Hide From You
That slick short scope looks lethal on the shelf—and the moment you get behind it under pressure, you'll find out exactly what the marketing sheet didn't tell you.
ArchiveThe Curtain-Rod Guy Humiliated Every American Gun Giant
In 1980, American cops carried six-shot revolvers and reloaded under fire hoping for the best—and a curtain-rod manufacturer from Austria was about to make every one of them look like a museum piece.
ArchiveCourt Already Said No. LA Did It Anyway. Now FPC's Suing.
A federal court struck down California's one-handgun-per-30-days limit. Los Angeles and Inglewood read that ruling—and kept enforcing the ban anyway. The Firearms Policy Coalition just made them regret that choice.
ArchiveThe Compact Scope Trap: What They Don't Put on the Box
That super-short riflescope on the shelf looks perfect — right up until you're dialing for 800 yards and hit a hard wall the marketing copy never mentioned.
ArchiveVirginia's AG Defied a Court Order. The Judge Said Do It Again.
Virginia's Attorney General looked at a binding federal court injunction and decided it was optional — so a judge had to order the Virginia State Police to obey it. Again.
ArchiveDOJ Sues Denver, D.C., L.A.—Virginia Is Next
The DOJ just dragged five gun-grabbing jurisdictions into federal court in six months flat — and the same division the Left used as its private grievance machine for decades is now treating the Second Amendment like the civil right it always was.
ArchiveATF's Own Lawyer Admits Biden Gun Rule Did Nothing
Bloomberg's gun-control mouthpiece The Trace sat down with ATF General Counsel Robert Leider expecting a scandal—and walked away having demolished their own argument for Biden's 'engaged in the business' rule.
ArchiveNJ AG Is Building a Public Glock Owner List. Your Name's on It.
New Jersey's attorney general is subpoenaing ten years of Glock sales records from licensed dealers statewide—and the moment that data lands in a civil court file, any reporter in America can publish every name on it.
ArchiveThe $299 Earbud That Makes Foam Plugs Look Criminal
Every shot you've ever fired with a foam plug was a bet against your own hearing — and the house has been winning for years.
ArchiveBloomberg's Mouthpiece Panics as DOJ Sues 5 Anti-Gun Govts
Michael Bloomberg's favorite news outlet just burned 1,500 words warning readers that the Trump DOJ is suing cities and states for trampling your Second Amendment rights—and they meant every word as a warning, not a celebration.
ArchiveBloomberg's Snitch Network Is Already Inside Your Kid's School
Michael Bloomberg's in-house gun-control propaganda shop just handed a full promotional spread to federally funded research that does one thing with ruthless precision: builds the peer-reviewed justification for turning your child's school into a red-flag tip line.
ArchiveBloomberg's Reporters Spent Months Trying to Bury Cekada. Their Own Data Exonerated Him.
The Trace sent reporters through 600 federal prosecutions to take down ATF Director Robert Cekada — and came back holding the receipts for his defense.
ArchiveOhio Supreme Court to Feds: You Don't Own Our Courts
Ohio's Supreme Court just blew up the anti-gun machine's favorite courtroom trick: the ruling confirms state judges can restore gun rights on their own terms, and federal prosecutors don't get a veto.
ArchiveOhio Supreme Court: Felons Can Fight to Reclaim Gun Rights
Ohio's Supreme Court just ruled that federally prohibited gun owners can petition state courts to restore their Second Amendment rights — and the gun-control lobby's favorite lie, that federal firearms bans are permanent and untouchable, just took a direct hit.
ArchiveSen. Sununu Just Put Every GOP Holdout on Blast
A sitting U.S. Senator just published his name on national concealed carry reciprocity, and every Republican holdout in the Senate is now officially out of excuses.
ArchiveTrump's ATF Just Nuked 30 Gun Rules. Brady Is Screaming.
In roughly 100 days, Trump's ATF has done more to reclaim gun-owner rights than Congress managed in years — and the anti-gun lobby is publicly losing its mind about it.
ArchiveFlorida Goes Tax-Free on Guns, Ammo, and Suppressors
Florida just stripped the sales tax off firearms, ammunition, suppressors, and firearm accessories — a direct statement that the Second Amendment is a right to be protected, not a revenue stream to be milked.
ArchiveLaPierre Loses Final Appeal — NRA Claws Back Millions
Wayne LaPierre spent years burning your dues on private jets and luxury suits — and yesterday a New York appellate court made him pay it back.
ArchiveNJ AG Subpoenas Glock Dealers to Build Secret Owner Registry
New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin has subpoenaed Glock dealers for sales records—not to solve a single crime, but to build a de facto gun registry through the back door, targeting the most popular pistol in America.
ArchiveNFA Checks DOUBLED in May—Here's What They're Not Telling You
While the mainstream press was busy eulogizing American gun culture, half a million law-abiding owners quietly doubled the rate at which they're registering suppressors and short-barreled rifles—federally, legally, on the record.
ArchivePSA Drops a 21+1 Compact 5.7 Carry Gun — Under $500
Twenty-one rounds of 5.7x28mm in a concealable frame, optics-ready from the factory, priced for the guy who actually pays his own bills — PSA just built the compact carry gun nobody else would.
ArchiveFederal Just Unlocked Hidden Power in Your 6.5 Creedmoor
Federal found more performance hiding inside your 6.5 Creedmoor—and all you have to do is feed it the right ammo.
Archive9th Circuit: Suppressors Not Protected by 2A
The Ninth Circuit just used a criminal alien's unregistered suppressor case to declare suppressors fall outside Second Amendment protection — and the ruling lands on every law-abiding NFA owner in nine states.
ArchiveBrady Sues ATF to Build a Hit List of Gun Dealers
Brady doesn't need Congress anymore—it's going straight to a federal courtroom to force ATF to hand over the dealer records it plans to weaponize against every licensed firearms retailer in America.
ArchiveFederal Just Broke the 6.5 Creedmoor's Speed Limit
Federal didn't redesign your rifle, your cartridge, or your magazine — they redesigned what's possible inside all three.
ArchiveThe 9mm Revolver Skeptics Said Couldn't Work — It Works
The gun community said a 9mm revolver was a compromise waiting to fail. A hard range test just proved them wrong.
ArchiveKaine Tells 2A Sheriffs 'Bad for Business'—Wrong Move
A sitting U.S. senator just told Virginia sheriffs to betray their oath or suffer the consequences—and the backlash came fast, loud, and organized.
ArchiveSAF Exposes ProPublica's ATF Hit Piece: Bloomberg's Own Staffer
ProPublica ran a splashy ATF enforcement hit piece and hid a bombshell in the footnotes: one of its star sources is a current Everytown for Gun Safety official who used to run parts of the very agency she's now trashing.
ArchiveWhy Your Red Dot Will Fail You — Unless You Do This
A red dot you haven't trained with isn't an upgrade — it's a liability you paid extra for.
ArchiveBudget 2011 Shootout: Springfield, Bersa, Girsan, Tisas Tested
You don't need $3,000 for a race-gun 2011 — RECOIL magazine just pit four affordable double-stacks against each other, and only one walked away the value champion.
ArchiveThe Shotgun John Browning Built to Last 130 Years
John Moses Browning designed the Winchester Model 97 in 1897. Nearly 130 years later, it remains the gun every pump-action shotgun gets measured against — not out of nostalgia, but because the engineering has never been beaten.
ArchiveFederal's +Peak Turns Your 6.5 CM Into a Magnum—No New Rifle
Federal just made your existing 6.5 Creedmoor faster without asking you to buy anything new—and that's not marketing, it's metallurgy.
ArchiveCANCON 2026: Suppressors, Smiles & Zero Incidents
While Bloomberg's machine works overtime to erase gun owners from polite society, hundreds of happy, law-abiding Americans spent the weekend sending rounds downrange through suppressors — and nobody got hurt, nobody got arrested, and everyone had a blast.
ArchiveGermany Begged WWI Commanders to Ban This American Shotgun
Germany didn't just fear the Winchester Model 97—they filed a formal diplomatic protest demanding it be banned from the battlefield as too inhumane to fight against.
ArchiveFederal Just Made 6.5 Creedmoor Faster — Same Rifle, Zero Excuses
Federal just handed 6.5 Creedmoor owners a magnum performance upgrade they didn't have to buy a new rifle for.