A gun control activist accused of defacing the 9/11 Memorial used the names of fallen Americans to promote his campaign for universal background checks and a national gun registry. His demands expose a broader threat to Second Amendment rights.
A final rule effective November 27 lets FFLs run voluntary NICS checks on employees and contractors with inventory access. It is a useful tool, not a compliance checkbox.
California requires home-based firearms dealers to record audio and video around the clock. The Goldwater Institute is asking the Ninth Circuit to reconsider a ruling upholding the mandate, warning that it threatens constitutional privacy and free speech rights.
Retail background checks slipped 2.3% in September while NFA checks doubled. The week also brought a new federal suit against New Mexico's waiting period, a straw-purchase indictment, and another PTR sales reorganization.
A Firearms Research Center analysis exposes how gun-recovery statistics are used to cast suspicion on lawful firearm dealers. The implications reach every FFL: a gun’s later recovery does not establish that the dealer who handled it did anything wrong.
Suppressor and NFA transfer demand is the biggest under-managed revenue line at most FFLs. Here is the growth playbook to capture it, plus how customers find an FFL dealer near them.
The industry got its deregulation package, but the 38,000 public comments on it show the real fight has moved to dealer records, retention, and online sales.
A 42-year-old woman was arrested in Dallas and charged with lying on a 4473 to buy the gun a felon used to kill four officers in Charlotte. ATF is simultaneously rewriting the straw-purchase rule. Here is what the two stories mean for the person behind your counter.