In recent years, some of the most consequential changes to federal firearms enforcement haven't come through Congress — they've come through administrative action. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have used rulemaking authority, enforcement guidance, and prosecutorial priority shifts to significantly reshape the regulatory landscape for gun purchases and transfers. Two areas have seen particularly meaningful tightening: straw …

Forced Reset Triggers, better known as FRTs, have become one of the most talked-about aftermarket trigger accessories in the firearms community. Marketed as a way to speed up the reset of a semi-automatic trigger, these devices have generated significant attention — not just for their function, but for the mechanical issues owners frequently report. If you're researching FRT reliability, troubleshooting a malfunction, or simply trying to understand why these triggers develop problems over …

A Landmark Second Amendment Showdown Is Coming For more than a decade, lower courts have wrestled with a question the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to answer: can states and cities ban AR-15-style rifles and other semiautomatic weapons often labeled "assault weapons"? That era of avoidance just ended. On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two consolidated cases — Viramontes v. Cook County (out of the Seventh Circuit) and Grant v. Higgins (out of the Second Circu …