Chicago Targets Gun Vendors While Its Homicide Rate Rises

Chicago is preparing new purchasing requirements for firearm and ammunition vendors, but the order does not address the repeat offenders and concentrated violence driving the city’s bloodshed.

By Bill Cawthon •

FBI 2025 Crime Data: Murder Rate Ties Historic Low After Record Gun Sales

The FBI reports that violent crime recorded its largest one-year rate decline since national estimates began, while the 2025 murder rate tied the historic low set in 1955 and 1956. Years of record firearm purchasing did not produce the bloodbath gun-control advocates predicted.

By Bill Cawthon •

Sour Grapes: Gun-Ban Advocates Lose Their Minds Over DOJ Not Appealing NFA Ruling

Giffords, Brady and Everytown are predictably furious after DOJ declined to keep the NFA injunction on hold. Suppressors, SBRs and SBSs are suddenly being called some of America’s “deadliest weapons.” The post Sour Grapes: Gun-Ban Advocates Lose Their Minds Over DOJ Not Appealing NFA Ruling...

By Mark Chesnut •

S14E3: Old Iron, New Iron & Remembering a Giant

We cover recent firearms industry news, including the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s plan to sell former U.S. government M14 rifles to civilians in permanently semi-automatic form, and Auto-Ordnance’s short-barreled M1 Carbine with a 12-inch barrel and suppressor threading.

By Riley Bowman •
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