Two Tucson gun stores were burglarized in one week, DOJ is fighting broader NFA relief after letting the suppressor ruling stand, a Las Vegas man got 33 months for unlicensed dealing, and bound-book software keeps consolidating.
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...
Illinois HB 3320 would license gun makers, tie their fees to state firearm injury costs, and fine violators $1 million a month. Read the original story: Illinois Wants Gun Makers to Pay the State’s Entire Firearm Injury Bill for the Right to Sell There
A divided Fifth Circuit panel has ruled that the federal laws blocking a direct handgun sale to an out-of-state buyer violate the Second Amendment. The September 18 opinion in Elite Precision Customs v. ATF reverses a Texas district court and enters judgment for a gun shop and its fellow pl...
The Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal government cannot prohibit lawful Americans from directly purchasing handguns across state lines, holding that the right to keep arms necessarily includes the right to acquire them.
The decision does not erase every provision. The court rejected the Second Amendment challenge to commercial-distribution restrictions. It also rejected the plaintiffs' First Amendment claim involving digital instructions for 3D printing because their record did not establish whether the cod...
A qualified manufacturer may obtain unregistered and unmarked suppressor parts from another qualified manufacturer, install them in a registered suppressor, and return the complete unit to its owner. That opens up repairs that the old guidance made difficult or impossible.
Gun Owners of America and Arizona resident Cynthia Ladd are challenging Oregon laws that block most nonresidents from obtaining a concealed-handgun license while recognizing no permits issued by other states.
ATF has expanded the repairs and caliber conversions qualified manufacturers may perform on registered suppressors without creating a new NFA firearm—but strict limits remain.
Federal prosecutors tied Dugan Ashley to the New Orleans terrorist through downloaded videos. AmmoLand’s source says the evidence shows no messages, meeting or personal connection—and raises questions about whether the published information would have worked.