The Suppressor Tax Win Is Real — and Much Smaller Than Advertised

HK 416 Review - Suppressor

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, and somewhere in the fine print of a sprawling reconciliation bill was a sentence the suppressor industry had been waiting ninety-one years to read: the $200 federal tax stamp on silencers, short-barreled rifles, and related NFA items was eliminated, effective January… Continue reading The Suppressor Tax Win Is Real — and Much Smaller Than Advertised

The Revolver Renaissance Is a Plinker Boom in Disguise

Heritage Rough Riders

In 2023, Heritage Manufacturing produced 178,743 revolvers at its facility in Bainbridge, Georgia. That is not a typo. A single company made roughly one in every five revolvers manufactured in the United States last year, and virtually every one of them was a .22 rimfire Rough Rider — a single-action, cowboy-style plinker that retails for… Continue reading The Revolver Renaissance Is a Plinker Boom in Disguise

“Get A Shotgun” Is The Wrong Answer to The Right Question

Shotgun Racking

In February 2013, then Vice President Joe Biden gave what is probably the most widely circulated home defense recommendation in American political history. Standing in front of a crowd in Danbury, Connecticut, he explained that he’d told his wife Jill that if something went bump in the night, she should walk out on the balcony… Continue reading “Get A Shotgun” Is The Wrong Answer to The Right Question