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
In an October 2 motion to dismiss Zimmerman v. Blanche, the Justice Department argued that 18 U.S.C. § 930(a) does not bar lawful self-defense carry in National Park Service visitor centers and other buildings open to the public. The filing contradic
The Supreme Court opened its October 2026 Term by denying review in dozens of Second Amendment petitions, including challenges to the federal felon-in-possession statute and Minnesota’s refusal to honor out-of-state carry permits. The mass denial kee
New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed an October 1 certiorari petition asking the justices to review the Third Circuit’s decision striking down the state’s assault-rifle and large-capacity magazine bans. The petition asks the Court to