Category: In the news

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Word hit the streets fast. On October 21, 2026, Smith & Wesson Brands closed on Savage Arms in a deal that values the bolt-gun specialist at roughly $160 million. The announcement came the same day the paperwork finished, which tells you both sides were ready to move. Smith & Wesson’s official release spells it out. […]

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 […]

The G36 has been the German soldier’s rifle since the late 1990s. That run is finished. First rifles reached Panzergrenadier Battalion 122 at Grafenwöhr in December 2025. Training is now spreading through the units scheduled to receive them. By the end of 2026, roughly 20,000 of the short-barrel G95KA1 should be in the force. Heckler […]

Erin Piacenti was 32, a Bank of America vice president from Chester, New Jersey, and a little more than three weeks past her second wedding anniversary when a stranger pulled two knives from a Target bag in Times Square. Police say the attack on Monday afternoon was random. It lasted about 20 seconds between the […]

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 […]

This week, the ATF announced a solid win: they shut down what looks like a major stash house in Lincoln County, North Carolina, tied straight to the Sinaloa cartel. According to the details, agents hit the location after getting intel that a cartel source was stockpiling weapons in the area for smuggling south into Mexico. […]

Jordan Derrick—better known online as Dugan Ashley from the pioneering gun channel CarniK Con—made headlines again in May 2026. This time, it wasn’t for reloading tips or firearms humor. Federal authorities arrested the 40-year-old Missouri man on charges related to manufacturing explosives without a license, unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device, and distributing information […]