Fifth Circuit Rules Interstate Handgun Purchase Ban Unconstitutional
The Fifth Circuit ruled federal restrictions on interstate handgun purchases unconstitutional, but the decision doesn't immediately change how gun sales work.
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SAF Challenges New Jersey Gun Permit Denial Over Protected Speech
New Jersey upheld a firearm purchaser identification card denial based partly on offensive online posts. SAF argues protected speech cannot become grounds for denying Second Amendment rights.
Prodigy vs. Echelon: Hammer vs. Striker?
Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Ramon Ramirez wades into the striker-fired vs. hammer-fired pistol debate. In the article, he uses two pistols to demonstrate the different systems: the Springfield Armory Echelon and the Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy. Both guns were provided on loa...
FFL Direct: ATF Built a Real-Time Tap on Gun-Buyer Records
ATF calls FFL Direct a convenience for gun dealers. The program automates serial-number trace responses that can send purchaser information to Washington while the bound book stays with the dealer. Congress must confront the backdoor registry infrastructure before an anti-gun administration explo...
Straw Purchase Rule Change: What FFL Dealers Must Know
A 42-year-old woman was arrested in Dallas and charged with lying on a 4473 to buy the gun a felon used to kill four officers in Charlotte. ATF is simultaneously rewriting the straw-purchase rule. Here is what the two stories mean for the person behind your counter.
Newsom Signs 10 More Gun Control Bills in California’s Assault on the Second Amendment
Gavin Newsom signed ten more gun control bills as California continues piling restrictions onto the right to keep and bear arms. Anti-gun groups celebrated the package, but their approval does not change the Constitution: gun rights are civil rights, and government does not get to turn them into ...
Technical SEO for FFL Dealers: The 9-Point Site Audit
Most gun shops don't have a marketing problem — they have a plumbing problem. Nine technical fixes, in the order that gets an FFL's pages crawled, indexed, and found by nearby buyers.
TFB Review: Light-Bearing Carry With FALCO's TalonGuard Holsters
Carrying a pistol with a weapon light attached is one of those things that sounds simple until you go shopping for a holster. Add a light to your carry gun, and your holster options collapse from hundreds down to a handful, or none in some cases, and half of those that do fit your gun only suppor...
October 7 Is the Date: Massachusetts’ Highest Court Will Hear the Holyoke Man Denied a Carry License Over Decade-Old Charges That Never Led to a Conviction
The Massachusetts SJC hears Pratt v. Westbrook on October 7, a test of whether police chiefs can deny a carry license as ‘unsuitable.’ Read the original story: October 7 Is the Date: Massachusetts’ Highest Court Will Hear the Holyoke Man Denied a Carry License Over Decade-Old Charges That N...
73-Year-Old San Francisco Vietnam Veteran Shoots Masked Intruder in the Buttocks After He Drilled Through His Door and Knocked Him to His Hands and Knees at 5 A.M.
A 73-year-old Vietnam veteran shot a masked intruder in the buttocks after the man drilled through his door and knocked him down in his San Francisco home at 5 a.m. Read the original story: 73-Year-Old San Francisco Vietnam Veteran Shoots Masked Intruder in the Buttocks After He Drilled Through H...