August 12, 2026

Ninth Circuit Forced to Deliver Rare Second Amendment Win Against Hawaii’s ‘Vampire Rule’

The Ninth Circuit reinstated an injunction against Hawaii’s private-property “vampire rule” after the Supreme Court held that the default ban on licensed carry violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.

Comparison Between Chicago and All of Florida’s Major Cities Very, Very Telling

If gun control works, as anti-gunners repeatedly claim, then the lack of gun control should lead to predictable results.

Silencer Shop Puts ATF on Notice: No-Form-4 Suppressor Transfers Set for Midnight

Silencer Shop has notified DOJ and ATF that it plans to transfer suppressors to Brandon Herrera and Wes Virdell without Form 4s, advance ATF approval, or NFA registration when a federal injunction takes effect.

What Does and Doesn’t Change If Stay Expires in NFA Case

We’re still waiting to see if the Department of Justice will tell a federal judge in Texas that it plans on appealing his decision that many NFA regulations on suppressors, short-barreled firearms, and “any other weapons” are invalid now that the making and transfer taxes on those items has been zeroed out.

NYPD Commission Won’t Give Credit to Bruen Where It’s Due

When the Bruen decision was handed down, anti-gunners lost their minds.

New Study Finds Oregon’s Measure 114 Led to a Surge in Gun Sales

A new study found firearm-related background checks surged 157% after Oregon voters approved Measure 114, producing the opposite short-term result gun-control advocates promised.

Creator of ‘The Everytown Mag’ Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison

A well-known member of the 3D printed firearm community has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for building and possessing machine gun conversion devices.

GOA, Silencer Shop, and Two Republican Candidates Turn Up the Heat on DOJ Over NFA Registry

Today is the deadline for the Department of Justice to inform a Texas judge whether it plans to appeal last week’s decision striking down the NFA’s registration and paperwork requirements on items that no longer have a making or transfer tax, and the plaintiffs in the combined Jensen and Silencer Shop cases are turning up the heat on the DOJ and Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Why the Senate’s Newest Carry Reciprocity Bill Should Be Rejected

The Second Amendment is the only enumerated right that stops at the border of the state where you live.

New Jersey’s War on 3D Printed Guns Heads to SCOTUS

New Jersey’s crackdown on computer code written to 3D print gun parts will soon receive the Supreme Court’s attention.

Republican Lawmakers Urge DOJ to Adopt NFA Ruling As Policy

The ATF got a bit of a body blow recently when a court ruled that the continuation of the rule requiring suppressors and short-barreled long guns to be registered was unconstitutional.

Gun Owner’s Nearly 900 Day Legal Nightmare Is Over, but Damage Has Been Done

On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Company, Gun Owners Action League executive director Jim Wallace said that in the state of Massachusetts, the process is the punishment for legal gun owners caught up in the web of draconian gun control laws and overly broad discretion for gun owners.