National Shooting Sports Foundation: The ATF Should Regulate Bump Fire Stocks
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the firearms industry's lobby group. The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) sets the industry's technical standards. The NSSF and SAMMI issued the following joint statement, pretty...
Feinstein: ATF Can’t Regulate Bump Fire Stocks…We Need a Law
The NRA is catching hell for its apparent acquiescence to the effort to restrict the sale of bump fire stocks. As Wayne LaPierre stated last night, NRA merely wants to "look at that and see...
ATF Firearms Trace Numbers Continue to Soar. Who Cares?
Over the The Trace, they're tracing the number of traces performed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (And Really Big Fires). But even the staunch gun control advocates at Michael Bloomberg's...
Ghost Gunner CNC Machines Now Completing 80% Pistol Frames
Defense Distributed's Ghost Gunner desktop CNC machine has been turning 80% AR-15 lowers into functional receivers for years. Now, it's ready to sink its teeth into 80% pistol frames -- 1911s, GLOCKs, specifically, with more to come....
Exclusive: TTAG Shoots Defense Distributed’s First Ghost Gunner Pistols
https://youtu.be/G0hYdfVZBe0
Defense Distributed, makers of the Ghost Gunner desktop CNC machine and open-source providers of CNC and 3D printer firearms blueprints, has a big announcement today. Namely, that the Ghost Gunner can now finish 80%...
A Note From Rick Vasquez, NFA Expert Consultant and Former FTB Acting Chief
Rick Vasquez, former Assistant Chief and Acting Chief of the ATF's Firearms Technology Branch and current industry and government consultant on the National Firearms Act and other ATF and firearms classification matters, penned the...
ATF Alert to FFLs and NFA Dealers in Advance of Hurricane Irma
You may have read our earlier post regarding gun laws in Florida in advance or Hurricane Irma's landfall. Of particular note were Bennet Richt's warnings concerning NFA items carried across state lines. The ATF...
The US Now Has More Than 400 Million Privately Owned Firearms
The number of private firearms in the United States continues to soar. According to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, (ATF) figures just released, the number of firearms added to the private stock...
Mossberg 590 Shockwave, “Non-NFA Firearms” Legal in Texas Beginning September 1
Thanks to the byzantine regulations that define what guns are and are not legal for Americans to own, there's a classification of gats that fall into a sort of legal limbo. As they're technically...
BREAKING: Silencer Shop Form 4 Barcodes Slash NFA Wait Times
With support from Dead Air Armament and GEMTECH, Silencer Shop created software that digitizes all ATF Form 4 information into a single barcode. Instead of NFA inspectors having to manually enter everything on a physical...
Firearms Concierge: Machine Gun Madness
I was out to lunch recently when I got a call. Not wanting to deal, I sent it to voicemail and listened to the message. The caller was someone I'd met at the...
ATF Starts Instant Approval of Dealer-to-Dealer NFA Transfers
These days you can walk into almost any gun store and find silencers in stock. Just a few years ago that wasn't the case. You needed to order a silencer from a distributor and...