What Buyers Check Before They Pick an FFL Dealer Near Them
Transfer customers pick a shop before they ever call: fee, hours and turnaround decide it. What an FFL listing has to answer, and how to audit your own.
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The Rulebook Changed Hands: An FFL Week in Review
One demand signal, four compliance signals: what the midterms, the ATF vacancy, Colorado's permit-to-purchase ruling, and the closed restoration portal actually mean for a licensed dealer.
Wilson Combat Starts Making Remington 700 Barrels
Barrel announcements are usually where one stops scrolling. But this one is worth a minute, because the details Wilson Combat chose to publish say something about how the barrels are made, and barrel making is one of those processes where the unglamorous steps decide everything.
2A Display: Gun, Magazine and Blade Mounts
A safe full of rifles leaning against each other could be a waste of a collection and a waste of space. For those who live where it’s legal, 2A Display 's answer is a line of wall and safe mounts that hold firearms, magazines and blades in the open, and the company sums up its aim simp...
Structured Data for FFL Dealers: What Google Still Reads
Your shop's schema markup is probably inert. Here are the two fields Google actually requires, the three markup habits that stopped earning anything in 2026, and how to make your site, profile, and listing agree.
Why “Knockdown Power” Fails Every Big Game Hunter
Watch enough hunting footage and you’ll see the same two outcomes with the same cartridge. An animal shot squarely through the lungs and heart sometimes runs 30, 40, or 50 yards before it expires, and other times falls where it stood. Hunters describe loading an identical cartridge and bull...
The Paper Trail Is the Defense: This Week in FFL Compliance
A suppressor-transfer screening tool, free employee NICS checks from November 27, a Fifth Circuit appeal and California's recording mandate — four moves that all shift dealer risk from filing the right form to proving the right decision.
SIG Sauer XRAY9-CUAS Computes The Lead On Incoming Drones
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 ...
NFA Background Checks Jump 129%: This Week in Dealer News
Retail background checks slipped 2.3% in September while NFA checks doubled. The week also brought a new federal suit against New Mexico's waiting period, a straw-purchase indictment, and another PTR sales reorganization.
Same-Day Suppressors: Week One at the Dealer Counter
A Springfield shop sold a suppressor in the time it takes to run a background check - the first real retail read on ATF's October 9 guidance. Week one taught dealers that the federal paper moved, but the compliance load did not.