The federal NFA change settled one question and reopened another: what your state requires. Florida, Montana, Alaska and Maryland answered differently this month. Here is how to find and vet a dealer now.
Transfer customers pick a shop before they ever call: fee, hours and turnaround decide it. What an FFL listing has to answer, and how to audit your own.
October's adjusted NICS checks rose 7.9 percent while the raw FBI count fell 8.1 percent. The election did not change this quarter's demand, but it changed the state map that sets your 2027 compliance costs and product mix.
ATF has stopped enforcing NFA suppressor approvals, two states read the same policy in opposite directions, and the under-21 handgun case is still open. A dealer-focused digest of the week in firearms regulation and retail operations.
One demand signal, four compliance signals: what the midterms, the ATF vacancy, Colorado's permit-to-purchase ruling, and the closed restoration portal actually mean for a licensed dealer.
Americans increased firearm purchases ahead of the 2026 midterms, pushing October's adjusted background checks to their third-highest level on record. With Democrats now set to control Congress, gun owners face renewed uncertainty over the future of their Second Amendment rights.
Ruger has worked through the grip colours on the RXM. Black, Stealth Gray, Flat Dark Earth, OD Green. When you run out of frame colours, there is only one place left to go, and Ruger has gone there: six new RXM models with PVD-coated slides in copper and blue are here.
October's adjusted NICS checks rose 7.9% and a new Congress is seated in January. A 90-day operating plan for the surge: counter throughput, first-time-buyer follow-up, and the listing details that decide who gets found.
Democrats' victories in the 2026 midterms could trigger another gun-buying surge. October firearm background checks were already up 7.9%, and gun-rights advocates warn that the prospect of new restrictions on semiautomatic firearms could send Americans rushing to gun shops.
One fire at a single Swiss plant is now a line item on dealer backorder reports. The work that follows is deposits, allocation status and honest lead times — not guessing at dates.