In a 5-2 ruling issued today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that the state’s bar on license-to-carry permits for adults under 21 is consistent with founding-era militia traditions and affirmed a 20-year-old’s unlicensed-carry convicti
Foxtrot Mike Products introduced the ISU-9, a patented integrally suppressed 9mm upper receiver listed at $499 through FM Products, Primary Arms and Silencer Shop.
The Justice Department has filed a notice of appeal seeking to reverse a Texas district court judgment that vacated ATF’s Biden-era firearms-dealer definition rule. The appeal puts the Gun Owners of America win that blocked the expanded ‘engaged in t
NSSF FOIA data show ATF cut volume-weighted average processing for high-volume NFA forms from 73 days in FY2021 to about 18 days, even as application volume roughly tripled. The drop is the clearest operational snapshot yet of how the bureau is handl
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating whether Pennsauken, New Jersey, used extreme wait times on purchase and carry licenses to deny Second Amendment rights. The inquiry puts a municipal permitting scheme under federal civil
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found that every one of the nine largest national banks maintained policies limiting services to lawful firearms makers and retailers on reputational rather than credit-risk grounds. The report documents
The en banc Third Circuit held that two Pennsylvania DUI convictions do not historically justify a lifetime federal firearms prohibition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). In a companion en banc ruling, a divided court said a terroristic-threats felony is
Reps. Mike Thompson, Jamie Raskin and Lucy McBath led 174 members of Congress in a letter asking the Justice Department to rescind its opinion that the Gun Control Act’s ban on FFL handgun sales to 18- to 20-year-olds may not be enforced. The request
Gun Owners of America, the Virginia Citizens Defense League and two Liberty University students filed Boyer v. Katz on Oct. 6 seeking to enjoin Virginia’s ban on handgun and assault-firearm purchases by adults under 21, plus revived private-sale back
Effective Oct. 9, ATF will not enforce making, transfer, registration or tax-stamp requirements for short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers and any other weapons after Congress zeroed the NFA tax. The bureau’s nationwide guidance fo
The Justice Department told a Missouri federal court that nine states cannot win nationwide or statewide relief from NFA registration after the Texas Silencer Shop ruling. The brief seeks to confine suppressor and SBR deregistration to the original d
The CDC corrected its firearm-injury webpage, raising the lower bound of annual defensive gun uses from 60,000 to 500,000 after restoring National Academies research it had removed in 2022. The agency now cites a range of 500,000 to 2.5 million DGUs