Retail FFL numbers are falling while direct-to-home shipping and online marketplaces rise. These five growth strategies — local search, NFA authority, used-gun digitization, transfer revenue, and rule-change positioning — still work for dealers who execute.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a rifle that lost its trials and still set the course for every US service rifle since. This is an early Artillerie-Inrichtingen AR-10 in 7.62 NATO, built in the Netherlands in the Portuguese contract pattern. Eugene Stoner had the AR-10 in ...
A Texas federal judge struck down NFA registration for suppressors and short-barreled rifles in 15 states, and DOJ declined to appeal. Here's what FFL dealers need to know about the sales boom, pending guidance, and compliance risk.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1903 Springfield chambered for a British cartridge. This is a Remington built 1903 prototype from around 1941, an M1903 reworked for 303 British on a Springfield receiver made in 1911. Britain needed rifles badly in 1940 and 1941 and went ...
Somali pirates have seized another commercial tanker, but international maritime policy still treats armed ship crews as a greater danger than the criminals boarding vessels with guns.
Part of a key firearms law lapsed after a federal court ruling — and suppressor sales are booming while dealers wait on ATF guidance. Plus: the ghost guns ruling, retail platform news, and compliance reminders for FFLs.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a revolver with the front of its trigger guard removed on purpose. This is a 1937 Colt Detective Special in 38 Special, built in the factory Fitz Special configuration and shipped to the FBI’s New York office. The recipe came from Henr...
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturer of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . While things are still up in the air with the NFA Court ruling, the market has already changed. People are buying s...
There are plenty of electric bikes on the market that look great on a product page but are really designed for paved roads, bike paths and relatively tame gravel. Then there are e-bikes that are built with a much more ambitious mission in mind: getting you farther into the woods, across rough gro...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a percussion pistol built for an emperor. This is a 20 bore over/under by Bernhard Wilhelm Ohligs of Vienna, made around 1862 for Franz Joseph I of Austria. Ohligs held the title of armourer to the Imperial Royal Court, and he showed his wor...