Category: News

Despite what Hillary Clinton tweeted after the horrible Las Vegas shooting, a silencer would not have made the shooting worse. I make this claim for three reasons: 1 – Silencers don’t work like she thinks they do, 2 – There is no current law preventing the shooter from using a silencer, and 3 – The […]

With the recent horrible shooting event in Las Vegas, Nevada, where 59 people were murdered and hundreds more were injured, the question about whether the shooter actually used a full-automatic machine gun has been popular. I may have inadvertently started this debate. When I first learned of the attack this morning, I saw a video […]

During his address to the NRA, President Trump said, “The 8-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.” We’re already starting to see the results! “Operation Chokepoint,” the banking initiative that targeted against FFLs, is over. This is great news for the firearms industry. Under “Operation Chokepoint”, banks considered FFLs/Gun […]

The ATF just released their July 2017 newsletter. These ATF newsletters are periodically released to help update the firearms industry on internal ATF news, as well as clarify and/or explain recent ATF rulings. This newsletter covered: Announcement – ATF stands up the National Firearms Act (NFA) Division Firearm Thefts & Burglaries Burglary and Robbery Statistics […]

The ATF revised the Form 4473 most recently in October 2016, and the new 4473 was required to be used starting on January 16, 2017. 4473 Paper Copies Unfortunately, the ATF shut off their eForm 4473 software because they didn’t update it in time for the new requirement – this meant that FFLs were required […]

“The 8-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end” – President Trump at the 2017 NRA Annual Meeting. Waiting to Get Your FFL? Like many Americans, you might have been hesitant to get an FFL because (1) you didn’t understand the process to get your FFL license, (2) you don’t […]

President Obama’s Proposed Executive Orders on Gun Control President Obama is set to announce executive orders on gun control later this week.  Today, a fact sheet summarizing Obama’s proposed gun control executive actions was published (see full text below).  The fact sheet outlines four key proposed initiatives of Obama’s executive actions on gun control: Keep […]