Maine makes eligible gun buyers wait 72 hours even after a background check clears. SAF and the NRA want the Supreme Court to review the First Circuit’s ruling that treated firearm acquisition as outside the Second Amendment’s plain text.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester trying to invent the youth shooting market and packing it in a suitcase. Winchester came out of World War One with an enormous factory and not enough to build in it. The answer was to sell everything. By 1919 there were Wincheste...
The August NFA check surge proves demand for suppressors is real. The margin, though, is no longer in the paperwork fee or the can itself - it is in the bundle, the service, and an intake process that knows which customer is on which legal path.
Midwest Industries is most likely known for its various handguards, most notably its AR-15 and AK handguards. Today, with the massive amount of mission diversity that is necessitated by modern warfare, the ability to reliably mount a significant number of various accessories to a handguard is a g...
SAF and the NRA ask the Supreme Court to hear Beckwith v. Frey, calling the First Circuit's Maine waiting period ruling interest-balancing. Read the original story: SAF and NRA Ask the Supreme Court to Kill Maine’s Firearm Waiting Period After the First Circuit Ruled Buying a Gun Isn’...
Rick Sung’s guilty plea closes an eight-year Santa Clara County carry-permit corruption investigation. The case shows what happened when officials treated the right to bear arms as a favor.
Connecticut's convertible-pistol ban takes effect October 1 with felony penalties and two federal challenges pending. Virginia's attorney general has switched on civil enforcement, and the appeals courts now disagree about whether buying a gun is protected conduct.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Dakota Model 10 falling block, and the real story is what is stamped on the barrel. Don Allen founded Dakota Arms in Sturgis, South Dakota in 1986 building high end custom rifles, and in 1992 he rolled out a family of house cartridges. He...
Ammunition Depot's AmmoVault lets customers buy ammunition a little at a time, leave it in the company's warehouse, and request delivery later. Purchases can be made individually or on a recurring schedule, with plans starting at $5.
A divided Fifth Circuit panel has ruled that the federal laws blocking a direct handgun sale to an out-of-state buyer violate the Second Amendment. The September 18 opinion in Elite Precision Customs v. ATF reverses a Texas district court and enters judgment for a gun shop and its fellow pl...