ATF stopped enforcing NFA approval and registration for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs and AOWs on October 9, 2026. A five-part growth plan for dealers who want the released demand to walk into their store instead of someone else's.
Some pistols get a new set of sights and call it an upgrade. Others get the full treatment. The SIG Sauer P226-X AGENCY belongs firmly in the second category. Unveiled at SIG NEXT, it brings together two names that need little introduction in the handgun world: SIG Sauer and Agency Arms. Th...
Welcome back to TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday. Today’s installment is a new product announcement: Taurus has added a shorter 8 3/8" barrel to its 350 Legend Raging Hunter that joins the 10-inch and 14-inch versions already in the line. TFB covered the 350 Legend Raging Hunter in anoth...
Hitting a drone with gunfire is hard for an unglamorous reason: by the time the bullet arrives, the drone has moved. SIG Sauer's answer is the XRAY9-CUAS, a counter-unmanned aircraft systems electro-optic unveiled at AUSA, and the idea behind it is to let a soldier point and shoot while the ...
Canik has spent a decade building pistols that undercut what people expect to pay for the feature set, then added suppressors , and has now launched CANIK OPTICS with four pistol red dots across two families. Let’s take a detailed look at the new red dots.
There is something faintly amusing about an Italian company making grips for the pistol that the U.S. military replaced with an Italian pistol, yet here we are. WOOX has added 1911 grip panels to a catalogue that until now has been rifle stocks, axes and knives. They are handcrafted in Ital...
A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed California's 24/7 audio and video recording mandate for FFLs in August, and the en banc petition landed October 13. What Penal Code 26806 requires, why home-based dealers carry the burden, and how customers actually find you.
If the Vikings had access to AR-15s, things might have gone a little differently. Judging by these images from Viking Brutality 2026 , they would also have needed a good pair of running shoes. Among the competitors at this year's event was a Viking-inspired shooter carrying an axe in one han...
At CANCON West 2026, Russell Phagan set up a miniature FAST stage at the Boulder Rifle & Pistol Club in Boulder City, Nevada, so attendees could get a taste of what his Firearms Action Shooting Trials matches throw at competitors. I stopped by the stage to talk with Russell about what he pack...
Every AR-15 since the original has relied on a pair of takedown pins to hold the upper and lower together. The X-Ordnance X1-15 drops them entirely. Its patented quick-release system lets the rifle be fully assembled or taken apart in seconds, with no traditional takedown pins to push out or get ...