Month: September 2026
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New DOJ Rules for Gun Rights Restoration: Key Dates & Details
If you have a nonviolent felony on your record, or you know someone who does, you’ve probably assumed your gun rights were gone for good. For over three decades, that was true in practice even though it wasn’t true on paper. Federal law has allowed the Attorney General to restore firearm rights to certain prohibited…
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ATF Confirms Compliance with Texas NFA Ruling
We covered the Texas NFA ruling back in August. A federal judge struck down the registration paperwork for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns once Congress zeroed out the tax that justified it. The injunction took effect August 13. Then the ATF went quiet for three weeks. On August 29, that silence ended. ATF Director…
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9/11, 25 Years Later: A Day I Still Remember
I was more than 50 miles from home that morning, in the north part of Houston, doing an install for a new customer. I do not remember how we first heard the news, but I remember pulling up the CNN home page and seeing it stripped down to one image of the towers and a…
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A Texas Judge Struck Down the ATF’s Frame and Receiver Rule
in LegalOn August 17, a federal judge in Fort Worth threw out a major piece of the ATF’s ghost gun rule. The ruling came out of Defense Distributed v. Blanche, heard by Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division. Defense Distributed is the Austin company known for selling…
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Impact of Gun Law Changes: DOJ’s Position on Buffer Zones
Most of the time, when the federal government weighs in on a Second Amendment case, it’s a friend-of-the-court brief filed months after everyone else has already picked sides. On August 4, the Department of Justice skipped that step entirely and sued a local government directly. That doesn’t happen often, and it’s worth understanding why. How…
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2025 FBI Report: More Guns, Less Violence
Gun control advocates have spent decades telling the American public that more guns in circulation means more violence. On August 14, the FBI released the final, full-year data for 2025, and the numbers tell a very different story. The numbers According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, 2025 marked the largest year-to-year decline in…