The Hughes Amendment, added to the 1986 Firearms Owners’ Protection Act, banned new civilian machine guns after a controversial House voice vote. Here’s how it happened.
Delaware wants the federal challenge to HB 451 kept on ice despite binding Third Circuit law recognizing adults ages 18 to 20 as part of “the people.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Freedom from Taxes Act would reduce remaining NFA transfer and making taxes to $0 and eliminate the Special Occupational Tax, sharpening the constitutional fight over the NFA registry.
As of January 1, 2026, the $200 NFA tax stamp has been reduced to $0 for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs. Here is what FFLs and gun owners need to know about the change, what stayed the same, and how to stay compliant.
In one of the most-significant yet most under-the-radar legal battles going on in the U.S. right now, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a petition for a rehearing of the Defense Distributed v. Attorney General of New Jersey case. A three-judge Third Circuit panel has recently dismis...
1986 wasn’t just a bad year for machine guns. It was the beginning of a regulatory power grab that we’re only now in a position to challenge.