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They're Denying Gun Licenses to Black Lions — You're Next
The government has found a new way to strip law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights — and they're testing it right now on the Black Lions.
ArchiveVirginia Defies Federal Judge—Runs Banned Gun Checks Anyway
A federal court told Virginia State Police to stop running background checks on private firearm sales—so they stopped, waited, and then started again anyway.
ArchiveLicensing Used Against Black Lions—A Warning for Every Gun Owner
When the government weaponizes gun licensing against one pro-2A group, it has already built the tool it needs to come for yours.
ArchiveMinnesota's Sneaky Gun Ban Just Got Nuked by Its Own Rules
Minnesota anti-gun legislators hid a firearms ban inside a thousand-page budget bill and thought nobody would notice. They were wrong.
ArchiveCut the Ammo Cartel Out — 5 Calibers, One Press, Zero Apologies
Every box of factory ammo you buy is a vote to keep paying someone else's price — and right now, that price is still brutal.
ArchiveCongress Just Filed the Bill to Kill the 1986 Machine Gun Ban
For 40 years, a single chaotic floor vote has kept law-abiding Americans from buying a newly manufactured machine gun—and a Florida congressman just filed the bill to finally undo it.
ArchiveThe Timer Never Lies — Does the EDGE Beat the Kings?
Your shot timer exposes every lie you tell yourself on the range — and Double Alpha just built one that serious competitors need to reckon with.
ArchiveU.S. Army Just Licensed Federal Ammo's Secret Weapon
The U.S. Army just came knocking on Federal Ammunition's door—because the innovation civilian gun owners funded was too good to ignore.
Archive3 Recoil Secrets That Separate Elite Shooters From Everyone Else
Your first shot means nothing if your second shot misses—and most shooters have no idea why it does.
Archive4 Real DGU Cases the Gun-Grabbers Pray You Never Study
Four real Americans. Four violent confrontations. Four times a firearm meant the difference between victim and survivor—and every lesson is one the anti-gun lobby has spent millions trying to bury.
ArchiveShooting Near White House: Trump Responds to D.C. Criminal Violence
A deadly shooting erupted blocks from the White House, and President Trump responded directly — even as gun-control advocates moved faster to exploit the incident than to ask who pulled the trigger and why.
ArchiveSecret Service Drops Shooter at Washington Monument
A man opened fire near the Washington Monument and Secret Service officers put him down before a single additional shot could find an innocent target. Armed response, immediate result.
ArchiveCT Senate Passes Gun Restrictions in 3AM Vote
Connecticut's Democrat-controlled Senate passed a new gun control bill in the dead of night, burying it inside a marathon budget session and forcing it through when most law-abiding gun owners had no idea it was happening.
ArchiveTexas Gun Owners Just Ended a 24-Year Career
Four years ago, Texas gun owners made John Cornyn a promise. On Tuesday night, they kept it.
ArchiveMaryland Just Banned Glocks. The 2A World Is Suing.
Maryland banned the most popular defensive handgun in America—and three of the most powerful 2A organizations on earth didn't wait a single day to fight back.
ArchiveSpringfield's 1911s Now Ship Ready for a Bombproof Red Dot
Springfield Armory just killed the last argument for leaving a red dot off your 1911.
ArchiveHouse Votes to Stop VA From Disarming Vets Without a Trial
The federal government was stripping veterans of their Second Amendment rights for needing help with paperwork—and the House of Representatives just voted to make it stop.
ArchiveSAF & FPC Just Forced SCOTUS to Face Maryland's Bruen Killswitch
Maryland couldn't kill Bruen head-on, so it did the next best thing — it turned the whole state into a 'sensitive place.'
ArchiveHouse Passes Vets' Gun Rights Bill—Senate, Don't You Dare Bury It
The VA stripped more than 170,000 veterans of their Second Amendment rights without a single judge, a single hearing, or a single shred of due process—and the House just voted to make that unconstitutional power grab illegal.
ArchiveSCOTUS or Bust: SAF & FPC Force Showdown on Maryland's Carry Trap
Maryland handed gun owners a carry permit with one hand and a map of forbidden zones so thick with the other that the permit is essentially decorative.
ArchiveThe First NFA Forms Ever Filed—Found. 90 Years of Control Exposed.
Somewhere in the paper trail of American firearms history, a single form marks the exact moment Washington decided you needed its permission to protect your hearing—and RECOIL Magazine just found it.
ArchiveCircuit Split on Waiting Periods Puts SCOTUS on the Clock
A federal circuit split on gun waiting periods has grown sharp enough that even Bloomberg Law flagged it as a landmark judicial flashpoint for April 2026 — and that means a Supreme Court showdown is no longer a question of if, but when.
ArchiveYour Suppressor Is Lying to You—Wrong Ammo Is Why
You spent serious money on that can—and a bad ammo choice is quietly making it worthless.
ArchiveThe Rifle Born From Defeat That Changed Everything
Lose a war badly enough, and you either innovate or disappear — France chose innovation, and the Model 1874 Gras rifle changed military history forever.
ArchiveCMMG Built the AR Suppressors Always Deserved
Every suppressor problem you've ever fought — the gas in your face, the cycling drama, the fouling that never quits — exists because someone bolted a can onto a rifle that never asked for one. CMMG just decided to stop tolerating that.
ArchiveTrump's DOJ Is Arguing Against You in Court
While Trump's DOJ is cutting pro-gun ribbons in some courtrooms, it is quietly handing anti-gun litigants the legal knife they need in others.
ArchiveMinnesota DFL Racing Clock to Ram Gun Package Before You Can Fight Back
Minnesota Democrats are deliberately burning the session clock—because the moment it hits zero, your window to stop their gun-control bundle slams shut.
ArchiveOne Wrong State Line = Felony. Get the 2026 CCW Map Free
Cross the wrong state line with your carry gun and you're not a law-abiding citizen anymore — you're a felon, and the anti-gun machine is counting on you not knowing the difference.
ArchiveTrump's DOJ Is Fighting FOR You—and AGAINST You in Court
The Trump DOJ is winning Second Amendment battles in federal court—and in other courtrooms, it's the one you're fighting against.
ArchiveMinnesota DFLers Rush Gun-Control Package Before Session Ends
Minnesota House DFL members are forcing a vote on a sweeping gun-control package before the legislative session deadline — using end-of-session chaos to ram through restrictions they know can't survive real scrutiny.
ArchiveBloomberg's Propaganda Arm Is Recruiting Your Church to Destroy Guns
Michael Bloomberg's gun-control mouthpiece just turned your local church into a recruitment target—and they're using a grieving widow's collectible Colt to make disarmament feel like salvation.
ArchiveVirginia Sheriffs, Prosecutors Refuse to Enforce New Gun Ban
Virginia's new semi-auto ban isn't even law yet — and the sheriffs and prosecutors who'd have to enforce it are already saying no.
ArchiveNH Senate Kills Campus Carry—Then Refuses to Even Talk
New Hampshire's Senate didn't just gut campus carry—they killed it, buried it, and refused to let anyone dig it back up.
ArchiveThey Banned AR-15s. Now They're Coming for Flintlocks.
For two decades they swore the Second Amendment only covered flintlock muskets. Now they want to regulate those too—and that slip tells you everything you needed to know about this fight.
ArchiveIron Sights, 2 Guns, Zero Excuses: FAST Retro Rifle Match
The best argument against gun control has always been the American shooter—and right now, they're running stages, transitioning weapons under pressure, and getting better every weekend.
ArchiveAR Gun Lawyers Skip Appeals, Go Nuclear on Judge Fox
Gun-rights attorneys in Arkansas just pulled a weapon most lawyers never touch — a direct disciplinary petition to the state Supreme Court against a sitting judge, mid-case, no warning shot.
ArchiveWhite House Gunman Had Prior Secret Service Contact
A man arrested outside the White House with a firearm had already crossed paths with the Secret Service multiple times before the incident — and court documents confirm agents knew his name before he ever showed up armed at the most protected address in America.
ArchiveHe Was Already on Secret Service Radar — Then He Opened Fire
The federal government knew his name before he pulled the trigger near the White House — and did nothing.
ArchiveMN Senate Passes Gun Grab—One Chamber Left to Stop It
Minnesota's Democrat-controlled Senate just passed a sweeping gun control package on a party-line vote—and the only wall left standing between law-abiding gun owners and a new wave of restrictions is a Republican House that needs to hear from you today.
ArchiveSpringfield Just Fixed the 1911's Biggest Modern Problem
The 1911's one glaring weakness in a dot-dominated world just got erased — straight from the factory.
ArchiveIndiana Supreme Court Kills Gary's 27-Year Gun Lawsuit
After 27 years of trying to bleed the gun industry dry through litigation, the city of Gary, Indiana just got the door slammed in its face by the Indiana Supreme Court.
ArchivePatronis Just Dropped the Firearm Freedom Act — And It's a Fight
A freshman Florida congressman just did what most of Washington won't: put his name on actual legislation to stop the federal government from slowly strangling your Second Amendment rights.
ArchiveCekada Confirmed: ATF Director Joins Blanche in Biden Gun-Rule Rollback Push
Newly confirmed ATF Director Daniel Cekada and Acting AG Todd Blanche have gone on the record together pushing to roll back Biden-era gun regulations — a coordinated strike from the top of DOJ and ATF that has the gun-control press in full panic mode.
ArchiveCourt Kills NY's 'Vampire Rule' — Bruen Win Is Real
A federal court has struck down New York's 'vampire rule' — the CCIA provision that banned licensed gun owners from any public-facing private property unless the owner posted a sign explicitly welcoming them.
Archive2nd Circuit Splits on NY Gun Ban — The Fight Isn't Over
New York's war on legal gun carriers survived — partially — and Kathy Hochul is already counting it as a win.
ArchiveATF Drops 34 Pro-Gun Rule Changes—Biggest Pivot in Bureau History
The ATF just put 34 proposed rule changes on the table, every single one cutting in gun owners' favor—and it may be the most aggressive pro-Second Amendment regulatory reversal the bureau has ever attempted.
ArchiveBoebert Bill Kills the NFA's 90-Year Tax Trap
For 90 years, the federal government has been charging Americans a tax to exercise a constitutional right—and Lauren Boebert just introduced the bill to end it.
ArchiveCourts Killed the Brace Rule. ATF Is Still Enforcing It.
A federal court buried the ATF's pistol brace rule. The ATF didn't get the memo—or it just doesn't care.
ArchiveCourts Killed It. ATF Is Still Using It Against You.
A federal regulation the courts already struck down is still being used by ATF agents to go after law-abiding gun owners—and Congress wants to know why, under oath.
ArchiveEverytown Publishes Kill Playbook for National Reciprocity Bill
Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety just published a step-by-step lobbying blueprint to kill national concealed carry reciprocity in Congress — and every law-abiding gun owner needs to read it as the direct threat it is.