Author: The Notorious FDE

Late last month, the Swiss firearms maker B&T AG (Brügger & Thomet) saw its main facility in Thun go up in flames. The blaze hit in the early hours of October 29, 2026, around 3:10 a.m., at the Tempelstrasse site in the industrial quarter. Upper floors took the worst of it—windows blown out, walls blackened, […]

No nationwide 90-day blackout for civilians has been announced, and nothing suggests one is about to hit. The story making the rounds is a genuine Pentagon readiness program that social media and some outlets have stretched into a public doomsday scenario. What FORTRESS Actually Is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth introduced FORTRESS America—Federal Operations for Resilience, […]

Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took to his podcast in late October and told listeners the quiet part out loud: have 30 days of food and water on hand. He wasn’t talking about the end of the world tomorrow. He was talking about the kind of disruption that leaves people staring at empty shelves […]

The new lower, branded the Lima Six (Chop Suey) Lower Receiver, is a billet aluminum unit machined specifically to match the Lima Six’s stretched upper receiver. It features a matching parting line, an extended bolt catch/release, an oversized trigger guard, an M16 fire-control pocket, and a dedicated link clean-out port that lets spent links fall […]

Michigan’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, dropped a familiar line this week that gun owners have heard before. On The Moment Podcast with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos, he said American-manufactured guns are responsible for a lot of the cartels. He rejected using troops or drones south of the border and called for […]

Oral arguments hit the Supreme Court on December 2 in a pair of cases that could settle whether states and counties can keep banning the most popular rifle platform in the country. SCOTUSblog lists Viramontes v. Cook County as consolidated with Grant v. Higgins out of Connecticut. The question is straightforward: do the Second and […]

Two federal courts just expanded what counts as protected “arms” under the Second Amendment, and the timing is hard to ignore. On the same day in late October 2026, the Fifth Circuit struck down key parts of the federal Switchblade Act and a Western District of New York judge tossed New York’s ban on civilians […]

You have probably seen the headlines. An armed civilian stops a shooter, and the coverage treats it like a unicorn sighting. “Rare.” “Uncommon.” “Almost never happens.” Those words show up again and again, usually right next to a citation of the FBI’s active shooter reports. A new review from the Crime Prevention Research Center says […]

Nampa, ID — Cloak Industries announces the launch of a new dedicated stripped lower purpose-built for the incredibly popular Lima Six Belt Fed Upper. The company has given Tactical Shit exclusive rights to launch and sell the entire first production batch. The new lower, branded the Lima Six (Chop Suey) Lower Receiver, is a billet […]

A federal judge just punched a big hole in New York’s gun control playbook. On October 21, 2026, U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. ruled that the state’s ban on ordinary people buying body armor is unconstitutional. The decision comes out of the Western District of New York and says defensive armor counts as […]