Every Amicus Brief in Viramontes and Grant: Supreme Court Fight Over AR-15 Bans

The Supreme Court is preparing to decide whether governments may ban AR-15-style rifles. Here is every amicus brief filed in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins, including the arguments supporting gun owners and two supposedly neutral briefs that advance anti-gun positions.

By Duncan Johnson Editor in Chief •

Ayoob: The Pin Shoot Grand Finale

In 1969, an armed citizen named Richard Davis shot it out with a trio of armed robbers and survived — but was hit a couple of times during the melee. Deciding that there had to be something better to stop bullets with than one’s own flesh, he conceived soft, concealable body armor and became ...

By Massad Ayoob •

POTD: The Turnbull TAR-40 – Case Colors on a Black Rifle

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have an AR that looks like it wandered in from 1890. Doug Turnbull built his name up in Bloomfield, New York, doing bone charcoal color case hardening and period correct restoration work on Colts, Winchesters, Parkers and Foxes. The TAR-40 is wh...

By Sam.S •

How a 45-Day Moratorium Becomes a Permanent Gun Store Ban

Two Southern California jurisdictions froze new firearms retailer approvals within two weeks of each other. The mechanism was not a gun law — it was land use, and it moves faster than anything most dealers track.

By Claire Eason •

FBI Director Confirms NICS Surveillance Five Years After AmmoLand Exposed It

Five years after AmmoLand’s John Crump exposed a secret program monitoring lawful firearm purchases through NICS, FBI Director Kash Patel has confirmed its existence before Congress. ATF restricted the surveillance system in 2025 but did not eliminate it.

By Duncan Johnson Editor in Chief •

Vietnam’s Best Spec Ops Weapon? The Stoner 63

The names of firearms designers such as John Moses Browning, Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Morrison Stoner are synonymous with iconic firearms. Stoner was a prolific firearms designer who was responsible for the AR-7 U.S. Air Force survival rifle, the AR-10 rifle, the SR-25, and, of course, the ...

By Friedrich Seiltgen •

POTD: The Kittredge Brass Belt Box – The Henry Man’s Ammo Tin

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a little brass box that solves a problem nobody thinks about anymore. Kittredge and Co. of Cincinnati made these during the Civil War, originally to go along with the Frank Wesson rifles they were selling. The design belongs to Augustus Ben...

By Sam.S •

New .223 and 9mm PCC RTR Reticles for ACOG Compact Scopes

Trijicon has introduced enhanced RTR (Rapid Target Reticle) options for its ACOG Compact line, adding .223 and 9mm PCC-specific configurations to the 1.5x16 and 2x20 models. The reticles were developed through its Voice of the Customer process, which incorporates direct feedback from users in the...

By Eric B •
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