NIST’s review of firearm microstamping research found significant disagreement over whether the technology can reliably produce repeatable, legible markings. The findings arrive as California moves toward a conditional 2028 mandate for semiautomatic pistols.
CDC has restored defensive gun use estimates to its website, citing a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive uses a year. Read the original story: CDC Puts Defensive Gun Use Back on Its Website: 60,000 to 2.5 Million Times a Year
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.
When the mission demands precision fire beyond what standard medium-caliber platforms can reliably deliver, SWORD Defense Systems has an answer in the MK18 SA-ASR. The Semi-Automatic Advanced Sniper Rifle has been in development since 2010 and is built around a short-stroke gas piston system pair...
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.
O’Connor granted Defense Distributed and SAF summary judgment on their Second and Fifth Amendment claims while siding with the government on three Administrative Procedure Act claims.
A federal judge ruled key portions of ATF’s Biden-era ghost gun rule violate the Second Amendment and Fifth Amendment. Here’s what the decision actually does.
Brandon Herrera’s Democratic opponent, Katy Padilla Stout, says legal adults under 21 should be barred from purchasing commonly owned semiautomatic rifles because their brains are not sufficiently developed.
In military, law enforcement, and professional shooting environments, equipment is judged by performance under pressure, not by specification sheets or marketing claims. An optic either tracks correctly, holds zero, and remains usable under stress, or it doesn’t. Apex Optics was developed with ...
Five people were wounded at Virginia State University, but police were still determining who fired and why. Sandy Hook Promise nevertheless invoked the familiar “gun violence” narrative and the same disputed logic used to promote additional restrictions on lawful gun owners.