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.
Elisjsha Dicken stopped the Greenwood mall shooter in 15 seconds from 40 yards. CPRC puts armed-citizen stops at 36.6%, not the FBI's 3.9%. Read the original story: FBI Data Put Armed-Citizen Stops at 3.9%. A 12-Year CPRC Review Finds 36.6%, and 58.3% in 2025
Twenty-seven states are urging the Supreme Court to strike down Illinois’ and Connecticut’s AR-15 bans, arguing that commonly owned rifles cannot be prohibited under the Second Amendment.
In this episode, we review recent firearms-related legislative and judicial developments at the state and federal levels. We discuss several California bills, a New York challenge to the state’s ban on convertible pistols, and cases involving AR-15s, waiting periods, ghost guns, and post office...
A knife-wielding suspect reportedly entered a Texas Chase Bank and demanded money from employees before an armed customer intervened and opened fire.
The FBI reports that violent crime recorded its largest one-year rate decline since national estimates began, while the 2025 murder rate tied the historic low set in 1955 and 1956. Years of record firearm purchasing did not produce the bloodbath gun-control advocates predicted.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a revolver with the front of its trigger guard removed on purpose. This is a 1937 Colt Detective Special in 38 Special, built in the factory Fitz Special configuration and shipped to the FBI’s New York office. The recipe came from Henr...
Ruby Ridge began with an alleged National Firearms Act violation involving two shotguns. Thirty-four years later, the NFA registration scheme behind that prosecution is finally beginning to fall in federal court.
The FBI has finally confirmed that Christopher Wray’s “Tommy Gun” gift to Merrick Garland was a $268.16 replica. The 21-page FOIA response answers whether the gun was real but sheds little light on how it reached DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The NICS numbers come from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and they are a rough correlation to firearms sales in the U.S.; licensed dealers must check the NICS database before a sale, and when you add up all those queries, you have your NICS numbers for the month.