The Rules Are Loosening. The Fight Is Now Over Your Records.
The industry got its deregulation package, but the 38,000 public comments on it show the real fight has moved to dealer records, retention, and online sales.
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Orchid Launches FFL Marketing a Gun Store Can Buy
Orchid launched a Firearm Digital Marketing service for gun stores on Sept. 29, built around the channels Google, Meta and TikTok closed to FFLs: local search, cart recovery, email and marketplace listings.
Front Line Friday #34: Drone and Tech Tools Entering Patrol Work
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is an editorial, and the topic is the wave of drones, license plate readers, and other technology moving into patrol work, and what actually changes officer capability versus what just moves money around. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead Air...
Interstate Handgun Sales Ruling and ATF's NFA Timetable
A Fifth Circuit panel struck the federal interstate handgun sales ban and ATF told dealers in Dallas that NFA guidance is weeks away. What licensees should do now — and what not to change yet.
How Media Framing Makes Everything Scarier
Two Lower Courts Struck Hawaii’s Handgun Purchase Deadline and Police Inspection Rule. The Full Ninth Circuit Just Put Them Back.
The full Ninth Circuit reversed Yukutake v. Lopez, reviving Hawaii's handgun purchase deadline and police inspection rule under Bruen footnote 9. Read the original story: Two Lower Courts Struck Hawaii’s Handgun Purchase Deadline and Police Inspection Rule. The Full Ninth Circuit Just Put T...
Highland Park Lawsuit Subpoenas James Reeves, Treats Gun Reviews as ‘Advertising’
Firearms reviewer James Reeves says plaintiffs suing Smith & Wesson have subpoenaed years of information about his gun reviews while defining even unpaid social-media content as advertising.
A Dishonest Framing Can't Lead to Common Ground
One Permit or Fifty? Minnesota Gun Owner Asks Supreme Court Whether Americans Need a License From Every State to Carry
A Minnesota carry case asks the Supreme Court whether Americans need a permit from every state and whether Bruen requires reciprocity. Read the original story: One Permit or Fifty? Minnesota Gun Owner Asks Supreme Court Whether Americans Need a License From Every State to Carry
Ransomware Gang Names ATF; DOJ Calls Breach ‘Major’
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...