Jeremiah Cottle, who invented and patented the device, which he calls a slide stock, ran his Moran, Texas-based company Slide Fire Solutions for eight years before the Las Vegas shooting. “And then the government came after me,” Cottle said. On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman in Las Vegas killed 58 people at an outdoor concert … Read more
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. https://youtu.be/R7Zn2Xo35QI FGC-9: The plastic arm of the free world I’m excited to announce that the plans for the FGC-9 was … Read more
By NRA-ILA The 2020 presidential contest is now underway in earnest. On Tuesday, President Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign to a packed house at the 20,000 seat Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. Earlier that day, one of the two dozen or so contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination tried to have a rally … Read more
Every time we write about the ATF’s bump stock ban, plenty of commenters write that they can’t understand why anyone would want one. They opine that no one will miss them now that they’re officially verboten. That’s completely missing the issue at stake and why the ban is so dangerous. Bump stocks facilitate a fast … Read more
Last week and DC District Court judge OK’d President Trump’s bump stock ban which arbitrarily re-classifies bump fire stocks as machine guns. Now the Firearms Policy Coalition and their co-plaintiffs have filed for an expedited appeal with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Here’s their press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2019) — Today, attorneys … Read more
As we’ve written a number of times, the Trump administration appears to to be about to announce a virtual ban on bump fire stocks. If the rule they’ve published is adopted, the stocks will be considered the equivalent of machine guns and fall under NFA regulation, (months-long permission requests and a $200 tax stamp). And … Read more
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