A ransomware group has taken credit for breaching the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but the specifics of what happened remain thin. The Qilin gang listed the ATF on its dark-web leak site Wednesday, and the agency later confirmed it was investigating a cybersecurity inciden...
An ammunition manufacturer in Kearneysville, West Virginia, is getting its payment processing back after a state investigation, and the reversal follows a pattern the firearm industry has watched play out at company after company, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). What ...
New Mexico’s seven-day firearm waiting period has lost on the merits in federal court. The victory is significant, but the injunction currently protects only Samuel Ortega and Rebecca Scott.
Colorado and Maine waiting-period cases advance, Virginia's assault-weapons challenge is paused while SCOTUS weighs a similar case, and ATF's direct-to-home shipping rule closes its comment window. This week's digest for FFL dealers.
This week's top stories for FFL dealers: a suppressor sales surge amid regulatory confusion, a proposed direct-to-home shipping rule, and the NFA pipeline reopening.
Retail FFL numbers are falling while direct-to-home shipping and online marketplaces rise. These five growth strategies — local search, NFA authority, used-gun digitization, transfer revenue, and rule-change positioning — still work for dealers who execute.
A Texas federal judge struck down NFA registration for suppressors and short-barreled rifles in 15 states, and DOJ declined to appeal. Here's what FFL dealers need to know about the sales boom, pending guidance, and compliance risk.
A Philadelphia Democrat’s memo would send Pennsylvania State Police into every licensed gun dealer in the state once a year. Here is the plan. Read the original story: Pennsylvania Democrat Files Memo to Put State Police Inside All 3,000-Plus Licensed Gun Dealers Once a Year
In an effort to field Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) to the joint force, the Department of War Other Transactional Authority Consortium has asked industry for white papers for complete UGV systems to enable employment by Warfighters in both tactical and non-tactical environments. Based on what th...
A Texas court ruling deregulated suppressors and sent sales surging, but FFLs face a 27-state patchwork and an Oct. 5 appeal deadline. Here's the market data and the playbook.