Week in Review: NFA Limbo and a NICS Warning for FFLs

Washington spent five days widening the gap between what gun law now allows and what ATF has told dealers to do. The FFL news digest for the week of September 21, and the decisions you should not make yet.

By Fred Thompson •

POTD: The Martz P.38 Carbine – The Gun Walther Never Built

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a gun Walther never built, made by a man who spent forty years building guns nobody built. John V. Martz served in the Navy during the war, put in twenty five years as an aircraft sheet metal man at McClellan Air Force Base, and started mes...

By Sam.S •

SHOP Show – 6 Oct, Raeford DZ…Be There!

Join SSD and over 100 vendors for SHOP Show 2026 a one-day dive into the newest and coolest kit available. Proceeds benefit the Unit Scholarship Fund.

By Eric G •

Two Federal Moves Just Widened the Handgun Market

In four days, DOJ stopped enforcing the under-21 handgun sales ban and the Fifth Circuit struck the interstate handgun purchase ban. Here is what the wider buyer pool does to FFL revenue and how to model it for Q4.

By Mark Edwards •

Silencer Saturday #450: 4473 vs. Form 4 Transfers

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . It has been more than a month since the first legal, non-stamp silencer transfer. More questions remain than answers, bu...

By Daniel Y •

Why Suppressors Keep Getting Shorter, and When a K Can Is Too Short

Count the 5.56 suppressors under six inches at your local gun shop’s suppressor counter, then think back to what that same shelf looked like in 2019. Short cans went from a niche request to a default recommendation in about five years, following some similar trends in other parts of the ind...

By Luke Cuenco •
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