The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) has filed a collective lawsuit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), New York State’s Superintendent of Financial Services Maria T. Vullo and the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). The NRA claims Cuomo, Vullo and DFS knowingly went to banks and insurance companies to tell…
Read MoreAt the risk of reducing my own chances to win, https://www.weapon-blog.com/contests/ has been updated with all the gun and gear related contests that I am aware of for the month. Go forth and win… As always, feel free to share wherever you can. If you are aware of any that are not on the list,…
Read MoreWhich is worse? Richard discusses the topic, as everyone is all in a fluster now that Defense Distributed’s files have been released. But the fact that a magazine published details of how to manufacture a hydrogen bomb way back in 1979 is fine and dandy… 3D Printed Guns, Thermonuclear Weapons & the First Amendment
Read MoreA BELATED LEGAL scramble to stop public access to 3-D printed gun blueprints has succeeded, at least for now. Late Tuesday, a federal judge granted a temporary nationwide injunction against Defense Distributed from making its designs available online. Several hours after the ruling, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson has finally complied. The suit, filed Monday…
Read MoreTwenty states announced Monday that they plan to ask a federal judge in Seattle to immediately issue a temporary restraining order against Defense Distributed, a Texas-based group that has already begun making 3D-printer gun files available on its DEFCAD website after a recent legal settlement with the US State Department. “After almost 18 months I…
Read MoreOur friends over at The Firearm Blog have reported another odd direction with regards to a specific manufacturer’s implementation of .50 BMG bolt-action upper receivers. Read the article: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/07/30/breaking-news-atf-is-classifying-50-cal-bolt-action-ar-uppers-as-firearm/
Read MoreA federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees a right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, finding that Hawaii overstepped its authority to regulate firearms possession outside the home. The ruling by a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, makes the San…
Read MoreIn its settlement with Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed the government admitted that semi-automatic firearms below .50 caliber are not weapons of war. On July 10, 2018, Breitbart News reported that the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) brought a suit against the State Department on Wilson’s behalf. The suit was filed in 2015 and was the result…
Read MoreFN America, LLC announces today the expansion of the FN 509® Series of striker-fired pistols with the release of the FN 509 Tactical, an optics- and suppressor-ready 9mm pistol. The pistol features the company’s patent-pending Low-Profile Optics Mounting System™ that enables the platform to accept more than ten commercially-available miniature red dot (MRD) optics and…
Read More2023 Texas Gun Legislation
Legislation affecting gun rights in the 2023 session.
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