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SAF, NRA, others to challenge National Firearms Act as unconstitutional

6:00am Monday, July 07, 2025
With the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBB), which eliminates the excise tax on silencers and short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns and “Any Other Weapons,” the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners have issued a joint statement indicating their intention to challenge the remaining registration requirements for the affected arms under the National Firearms Act as...

Independence Day 2025

by Rick Jones
5:00am Friday, July 04, 2025
“FREEDOM”. We say it often, exclaiming our rights by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, but is it really free? Daily, there are people who are ready, willing and able to chip away at our most basic freedoms as guaranteed by the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution, and it is these people who we must fight against.

Armed churchgoers prevent mass attack as Michigan lawmakers plot more gun control

6:00am Tuesday, July 01, 2025
Just over an hour away from the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan — even as lawmakers worked feverishly to pass various gun control measures, including expansion of “gun free” zones — a chilling reminder unfolded of the critical need to fight for the rights of law-abiding citizens to arm themselves for self-protection anywhere they have a legal right to be.

Pro-gun language stripped from reconciliation bill, put back in - sort of

by John Crump
5:00am Monday, June 30, 2025
Late Friday night, Republicans introduced new watered-down text to the reconciliation bill, trying to satisfy the Senate parliamentarian’s view on the Byrd rule. The new text will keep short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, any other weapons, and suppressors under the National Firearms Act of 1934 but would reduce the tax stamp fee to $0.

Anti-gun Ohio lawmakers keep trying with new (same old) bills

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, June 17, 2025
On Monday, June 16, we highlighted three new Ohio House bills that Buckeye Firearms Association could support, including two backed by legislators not typically known for their pro-firearms stance. Today, we're detailing nine new House bills and one new Senate bill that BFA opposes — though "new" is a stretch. These are largely the same ineffective measures rebranded with fresh bill numbers.

Despite SCOTUS rejection, Mexico pressing forward with lawsuit against gun retailers

by Larry Keane
6:00am Friday, June 13, 2025
After taking a loss at the U.S. Supreme Court with her country’s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. firearm manufacturers, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum is still planning to go ahead with a similar lawsuit that is pending in federal court against five Arizona federally licensed firearm retailers.

SCOTUS urged to lift lifetime ban on firearms possession by nonviolent felons

6:00am Thursday, June 12, 2025
The National Rifle Association, along with the Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, and FPC Action Foundation, filed an amicus brief June 11, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to the federal lifetime prohibition on firearms possession by nonviolent felons.

Is Citigroup doing a 180 on gun sales discrimination?

6:00am Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Last week, banking giant Citigroup announced, “We will update our employee Code of Conduct and our customer-facing Global Financial Access Policy to clearly state that we do not discriminate on the basis of political affiliation in the same way we are clear that we do not discriminate on the basis of other traits such as race and religion.”

Anti-gun activist lies about surviving school shooting that never occurred 

by Lee Williams
6:00am Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Calvin Polachek wants to be thought of as a hero who survived a deadly school shooting in the small town of Dallas, Pennsylvania. He claims the shooting occurred eight years ago and killed 11 of his classmates, including both his brother and his best friend. Except, that never happened.

BFA testifies for HB 108 to protect victims of violent crime from being victimized a second time

6:00am Thursday, June 05, 2025
On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, Buckeye Firearms Association (BFA) testified before the Ohio House Judiciary Committee in support of House Bill 108 , which would create a pretrial procedure for a person asserting self-defense, defense of another, or defense of that person's property. The bill, sponsored by Representative Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.), seeks to prevent crime victims who defend...

More than 17,000 guns reported lost or stolen from firearms dealers in 2024

by Dave Workman
6:00am Friday, May 30, 2025
Data posted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows more than 17,200 firearms were reported lost or stolen from federally licensed firearms dealers in 2024, which at least partly explains how criminals invariably seem to manage to get their hands on a gun, while also demonstrating that restrictive gun laws don’t work.

House votes to remove suppressors from NFA, but short-barreled long guns still up in air

by Dean Rieck and Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Wednesday, May 28, 2025
In a historic vote last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1, known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." The bill removed suppressors from the NFA, but it didn't include short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns.

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