Category: Current Events

Tehran’s line on Wednesday was simple enough: the United States sent something back. Not a press conference. Not a signed deal. A response. Iranian officials say Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi put it in front of President Masoud Pezeshkian at a Cabinet meeting after New York, Doha, and a week of shuttle talk through Qatar. Government […]

Read the copper headlines and you’ll hear about data centers, EVs, and grid wire. Fair enough. Those uses swallow metal by the trainload. What doesn’t make the bank notes is the small, stubborn pile of copper sitting in every brass-cased cartridge. Cartridge brass is roughly 70 percent copper. Jacketed bullets are copper over a lead […]

The ATF still will not publish a list. That part matters more than the press-release language. Director Robert Cekada told an FFL crowd in Dallas that some products sold as forced reset triggers are the real thing, and some “may be” machine guns. He would not say which ones. Manufacturers are supposed to guess. Dealers […]

Seven weeks after a Texas judge blocked National Firearms Act registration for covered suppressor and short-barreled firearm transfers, ATF Director Robert Cekada finally answered the question dealers have been asking since August. An FFL found transferring suppressors on a Form 4473 will not be cited for that practice. Former NFA Division Chief Steve Albro went […]

Federal agents say the second sale arrived in a toaster pastry box. Fifty small conversion devices. Three hundred dollars. That works out to six bucks apiece for parts the law treats as machine guns the moment they exist. The buyer was an undercover ATF agent. The seller, according to a Sept. 3 criminal complaint in […]

Copper does not care what you paid for 9mm last spring. It set a COMEX record of $6.8035 a pound on September 9, then cooled a few cents. That is still roughly 36 to 40 percent above the $4.54 area from mid-September 2025. Cartridge brass is about 70 percent copper. Jacketed and plated bullets wrap […]

Officers were called Saturday for a flourishing. The man who flagged them down said his neighbor had been yelling at him with a gun in her hand. He told police she said she was going to shoot him, then racked the slide on a loaded firearm. The yelling did not stop there. Court documents say […]

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, asking a St. Louis-area court to stop the government from forcing law-abiding residents to register suppressors and short-barreled rifles. The case lands in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Hanaway is joined […]

Cook County told residents they cannot own the rifle millions of other Americans already keep at home. On September 4, 2026, Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation put that fight in front of the Supreme Court, joined by Century Arms, Canik USA, B&T USA, and Fostech. The brief is filed in Viramontes v. […]

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) put a label on the event before he put a time on the calendar. The House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement will hold a roundtable Wednesday at 2 p.m. in 2154 Rayburn titled “Suppressing the Second Amendment: Examining the DOJ’s Posture Toward Firearms Suppressors.” Livestream is on the committee site. […]