PORTLAND, ME – A federal appeals court has ruled that Maine’s 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases is likely constitutional, reversing a lower court decision that had temporarily blocked the law from taking effect. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued it...
HARRIS COUNTY, TX – A confrontation between two strangers in a residential neighborhood ended in a fatal shooting Wednesday afternoon, with the woman’s two young children witnessing the incident from inside her vehicle. The Harris County Medical Examiner identified the woman as 32-year-ol...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a landmark memorandum directing military installation commanders to allow service members to carry privately owned firearms while off duty on Department of War property. The directive establishes a "presumption of approval" for carry requests, reversing d...
The Firearms Policy Coalition has released its 2026 FPC Freedom Index, a state-by-state ranking that measures how well each state protects the right to keep and bear arms. The index is designed to give gun owners and policymakers a clear, objective look at where their state stands on some of the ...
In a new filing in VanDerStok v. Bondi, the ATF asked a federal court in Texas to stay the case for 90 days while it prepares a revised Frames and Receivers Rule.
It’s a year of anniversaries in the American shooting world, as the country celebrates its 250th anniversary and gun manufacturers put out commemorative edition rifles to go with that birthday. But in Newport, Rhode Island, local shooters are celebrating a big birthday of their own. The New...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a cased engraved Tranter double trigger self-cocking percussion revolver featuring English scroll engraving with lined borders. William Tranter’s distinctive double trigger system allowed either single-action or self-cocking double-actio...
Poland’s love for the PK series of machine guns cannot be overstated. It continues to serve today, even after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact nations and the USSR, with Western modernizations that may preserve the core reliability that made the original famous. It began when the PK entered ...