At a vigil in Brunswick, Maine, focusing on the Brown University shooting, current and former Pine Tree State lawmakers took to the podium to brag about laws that they’ve managed to pass in their home state. And since the statements were made at a vigil for the Brown University attack, they must believe those laws ... Read more

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The U.S. Department of Justice’s new Second Amendment Section within the Civil Rights Division is already paying dividends. On December 22, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), alleging that the District government and MPD unconstitutionally ban the AR-15 and many other firearms protected under the Second Amendment. ... Read more

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It seems like every action movie features a familiar scene: an assassin threads a suppressor onto their pistol, and the resulting gunshot sounds like a polite cough or a champagne cork popping. The hero dispatches bad guys in crowded spaces, and nobody notices. It’s dramatic. It’s convenient for the plot. It’s also completely divorced from ... Read more

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Australia’s knife laws prove how fast “public safety” can erase civil liberties—and why Americans should pay close attention before Washington follows suit.

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We recently reported how so-called “mainstream” media were lapping up gun-ban group Giffords’ annual scorecard for the states, which is completely upside down and backward when compared to reality. Now, the good folks at the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) have delved deeper into the scorecard process and found some interesting revelations. In a report ... Read more

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When I was at the SHOT Show in 2024, I had a chance to shoot a suppressed Ruger American in 400 Legend. I loved the big-bore, soft-shooting cartridge. I was already shooting .350 Legend, and its bigger brother looked like more of a good thing. Being an AR guy, the idea of a big-bore semi-auto ... Read more

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Images by the author Nextorch was new to my radar until recently. I was checking one of the gun magazines and saw an ad for a flashlight that caught my attention… just what it was supposed to do, I guess… Anyway, I started exploring and contacted the company for a review sample or two. First ... Read more

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As TTAG readers know, registration leads to confiscation. It always has and always will. And licensing of gun purchasers is a gateway to registration. So, it should come as little surprise that Democrat gun-ban advocates in the U.S. Senate have introduced a new measure to require lawful Americans to have a federal firearms license to ... Read more

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A recent series of Wall Street Journal stories besmirching concealed carry practitioners has drawn the attention of John Lott, one of the nation’s foremost experts on criminal violence. And Lott, head of the nonpartisan Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), wasn’t content to let the author’s lies go unchallenged. In a commentary at realclearpolitics.com headlined, “WSJ’s ... Read more

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The idea for this setup came after watching Bear Independent’s discussion on light squad weapons for civilian resistance operations. We’re not replicating a SAW.  We’re closing the gap between a standard AR and a weapon that can realistically fill the “light squad weapon” role for the average American who doesn’t have $12K to spare for ... Read more

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We’ve previously documented how the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice has taken the wrong side in court cases challenging the National Firearms Act (NFA), now that the $200 tax has been removed. President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, signed on July 4, removed the $200 tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), shot-barreled shotguns (SBSs), ... Read more

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An ongoing trend of Chicago police officers wrongfully arresting lawful Black gun owners on firearms charges despite the fact that they have valid FOID and CCL licenses is turning some heads. According to a report at CBS News Chicago, several instances have occurred in which police stopped Black gun owners for minor traffic violations and ... Read more

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While the Trump Administration has said it would protect the Second Amendment and even recently created a Second Amendment Rights Section within the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, it continues to fight to save the NFA’s registration power now that the $200 tax is gone. And that staunch defense of what is arguably unconstitutional, ... Read more

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I’m lucky enough to have spent a lot of time running suppressed handguns. Although they’re often extremely simplified on both television and video game mediums, one component that almost always gets left out is the suppressor piston (also known as a muzzle booster, booster piston, booster, piston assembly, or historically as a Nielsen device). This ... Read more

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Angry that he didn’t get enough support to actually call a special session of the legislature to try and pass more gun control restrictions, on December 16, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed two executive orders on guns. Fortunately, neither is likely to have much impact. Purported to address “gun violence,” gun-ban advocates’ name for criminal ... Read more

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Gun owners and other freedom lovers cheered on the 4th of July when President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill with provision included that nixed the $200 tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs) and “any other firearms” as defined by the National Firearms Act (NFA). With the law set to ... Read more

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Eugene Stoner designed the AR-10 in the late 1950s and it has been revised repeatedly ever since. While the core concept remained sound, decades of manufacturer-specific changes led to multiple large-frame standards that were often incompatible. As a result, AR-10–pattern rifles became heavier, less standardized, and more complex than their AR-15 counterparts. Ruger took a ... Read more

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There is a pattern that repeats itself in nearly every mass-casualty attack, regardless of location, weapon, or ideology: the violence ends when the attacker encounters effective resistance. Not legislation.Not media narratives.Not policy debates held months later. Resistance. The Bondi Junction attack in Australia underscores the reality that this is impossible to ignore. After being disarmed ... Read more

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The ATF will temporarily shut down eForms after Christmas to implement the new zero-dollar NFA tax, deleting all draft Form 1 and Form 4 submissions in the process.

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The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners filed a response brief opposing Massachusetts’ ban on firearm ownership for adults aged 18 to 20.

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