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ATF determines 'metal sliver' is a machine gun

by John Crump

6:00am Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Thanks to a Gun Owners Foundation and AmmoLand News Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the gun-owning community now knows that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has determined a metal sliver is a machine gun. The FOIA in question included a criminal examination letter by the ATF’s Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD) that examined a Noveske N4 AR...

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New York court: 'Innovative' gun control unconstitutional

6:00am Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Well, that was interesting. Our alert last week pointed out that “ [g]un control advocates are ceaseless innovators in the realm of limiting freedom ,” with one of these original ideas being so-called “red flag” gun confiscation laws. The alert added that these laws are open to challenge, citing United States v. Rahimi, 61 F.4th 443 (5th Cir. 2023), a case invalidating a federal firearms...

Ohio's 2023-24 deer hunting seasons approved

6:00am Monday, April 17, 2023

The Ohio Wildlife Council approved proposed hunting and trapping season dates for 2023-24, including deer bag limit changes in seven counties, during its regularly scheduled meeting April 12, according to an April 13 news release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. Deer hunting seasons Deer are Ohio’s most popular game animal. Seasons in 2023-24 will have similar...

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African American gun ownership is up; here's why

by Larry Keane

6:00am Friday, April 14, 2023

Policy-makers are confounded. A recent report by The Hill showed that African Americans are the most directly impacted by what they call “gun violence.” At the same time, firearm purchases by African Americans rose steeply in recent years. Those two facts are not mutually exclusive and are linked in ways that gun control groups don’t want to admit. In other words, it’s the crime, stupid. And...

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Alabama: House Republican majority moving anti-gun bills

6:00am Thursday, April 13, 2023

The supposedly pro-gun majority in the Alabama House has scheduled committee hearings for three anti-gun bills. House Bill 12 violates Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by making it a Class A misdemeanor for lawful citizens to not inform law-enforcement, upon request, that they are carrying or possessing firearms. House Bill 28 removes certain exemptions for carry permit holders in order to...

NICS: March 2023 is fourth-highest March for gun sales, background checks

by Dean Weingarten

6:00am Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) gun sales and background checks for March 2023 are the fourth-highest on record since recording of background checks started in 1999. In March 2023, there were about 1.51 million gun sales and about 3.04 million background checks total. Having about half of background checks done for gun sales falls well within the expected range in recent years...

Second Amendment vs. 'innovative' gun control

6:00am Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Gun control advocates are ceaseless innovators in the realm of limiting freedom. They continually devise new and bizarre policies to undermine the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) poses a serious problem for these gun control pioneers. In striking down New York’s discretionary carry...

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New York court rules due process must be considered for 'red flag' orders

by Larry Keane

6:00am Monday, April 10, 2023

A New York court affirmed that due process rights must be taken into consideration when enforcing so-called “red flag” laws and vacated New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive order for enforcing Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) or “red flag” orders. That is consistent with what NSSF has said from the beginning about ERPOs. If an individual is going to be deprived of fundamental...