By Mark Houser Under the National Firearms Act (NFA), you can be imprisoned for owning an otherwise legal rifle or shotgun if it has a short barrel. Government agents might even kill you — you certainly wouldn’t be the first person killed in the course of enforcing restrictions on short-barreled firearms. And the worst part? You […]
The Army Corps of Engineers is soliciting comments on a notice of proposed rule-making that would make life easier for gun owners on 11.7 million acres of federal lands they manage. The Department of the Army, through the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”), is soliciting comments on its proposed revision of its regulation […]
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. Pandemic sales surge ravages the ammo market Crises — real ones — remind us that the world is not a […]
A notable decision came out of the DC District Court on Sunday. You may wonder what this has to do with guns, but please bear with me. Judge rules Cuccinelli appointment to top immigration post was unlawful, voiding some asylum orders [Judge Randolph] Moss said the June 2019 appointment of [Ken] Cuccinelli, a vocal proponent […]
This flag (that’s “come and take it” in Hebrew) should be flying outside every synagogue in the country, backed by people inside who are equipped to defend themselves from the next person who contemplates doing what was done to the Tree of Life congregation. Seen in the comments on our Facebook page:
In 2017, Pennsylvania became the last state to restore legal hunting of game with semiautomatic rifles. Hunting with semiautomatic rifles had been outlawed in the Keystone State since 1907. Last week, the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners voted to correct a strange twist of the Pennsylvania game laws. In five counties where rifles aren’t allowed […]
March 9th, 2018, a date which will live in infamy. You see, I never thought I would live to see it happen, but it’s happening. I’m not talking about Donald Trump as president, the Philadelphia Eagles beating New England, or even the fact that there’s a girl out there that likes me, thinks I’m amazing […]
On 2 January, 2018, the City of Bowling Green, Kentucky finalized an action that repealed the city ban on the carrying of concealed weapons in city buildings. The video of the Commissioners meeting can be seen here. Commissioner Nash (sunglasses on top of head, tie, second from left) was the lone dissenting vote. From bgdailynews.com: […]
The National Rifle Association’s decision to stand down over the issue of bump fire stocks has generated a lot of concern, both among TTAG’s readership and elsewhere in the gun owning community. From my current vantage point on a busman’s holiday in a Northern Michigan lakeside hamlet, geographically and emotionally removed from the Potomac, I’m […]
Introduced by Congressman Jeff Duncan (R, SC) on September 1st, H.R.3668 is a bill titled the “Sportsmen’s Heritage And Recreational Enhancement Act.” Or the “SHARE Act,” for short. Similar to how we saw the HPA tacked onto a natural resources bill in June, it has been added to the SHARE Act as well. Though, in […]
The Wagoner County Oklahoma Sheriff’s office held an auction of guns from its property room on August 19. For a segment of the gun auction, the auctioneer was a boy, about 12 years old. He does an excellent job. View the video on Facebook here. The firearms went for surprisingly low prices, compared to most […]
Pay Pal, Square, Stripe and other electronic payment processors have revolutionized the world of retail sales, both online and in person. They allow merchants to turn smart phones and tablets into cash registers, freeing them from the need to execute complicated arrangements with large credit card companies. You won’t find them used by gun shops, though. […]