Author: The Notorious FDE

Qilin put the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on its leak site Wednesday morning. No file dump. No byte count. No ransom note pasted next to the name. Just the agency, sitting in a row with manufacturers. Hours later the ATF stopped pretending the post was noise. Tanya J. Roman, chief of ATF […]

For twelve years the joke of Los Santos was the hardware. You could jog past a salad bar with an RPG on your back and the guy watering ferns would keep watering ferns. Cops only cared once the barrel tipped toward them. That was the contract. GTA 5 let you move through the map like […]

July did not look like the winter raids. No tanks on local news loops. No secretary posing at a warehouse gate. The numbers still jumped. ICE arrested 49,571 people last month, according to government files shared with the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley and UCLA. That is the highest monthly total since October 2022 […]

James Delano is in custody. The 15 firearms Middleborough police say he took from a local home on July 25 are back in law enforcement hands. That part of the story is straightforward. How they got there is not. Detectives spent about a month stitching together phone data, plate readers, private cameras, and interviews. The […]

Ninety-two years of paperwork, fingerprints, photos, and waiting just took a serious hit. On August 5, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in the Northern District of Texas ruled that the National Firearms Act’s registration and approval requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and certain AOWs no longer hold up. The reason is straightforward. […]

Midnight tonight in Texas is set to deliver something gun owners have waited nearly a century to see. Gun Owners of America, Silencer Shop, Brandon Herrera, and Texas State Representative Wes Virdell have formally told the ATF and Department of Justice they intend to complete suppressor transfers at 12:01 a.m. CDT on August 13 without […]

Moriarti Armaments has spent over a decade carving out space in a crowded market by doing one thing consistently: building AR-platform firearms and components that prioritize function over flash. Based in Miami, Florida, the company operates as a licensed manufacturer, dealer, and distributor with Type 07 manufacturing credentials and SOT status. Since 2014 the team […]

ATF Director Rob Cekada just published a straightforward piece on The Hill that cuts through a lot of the noise surrounding the agency’s big regulatory package. The timing matters. Several of these proposals hit the Federal Register in May, and comment periods on key ones close today. Cekada’s article focuses on three areas that have […]

A federal judge in Texas just handed gun owners a major win against one of the oldest federal gun laws on the books. On August 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas ruled that the National Firearms Act’s registration, application, fingerprinting, and ATF approval requirements for suppressors, short-barreled […]

Three people died and seven others were wounded Saturday afternoon when a gunman opened fire at the newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. The suspect, 24-year-old Chad Williams, carried an AR-15-style rifle. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot after an armed citizen and an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper forced him away from […]