Category: Firearm News

The latest FBI background check figures for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System stand at just over 3 million for March 2022. When compared to the 4.6 million seen in the same month in 2021 and the 3.7 million seen in March 2020, that’s a big drop. However, it is still the third-highest since… Continue reading Background Check Numbers in a Three-Year Low…But Still Over 3 Million

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, amid a reelection bid, says he is keeping a circa 2017 campaign promise from the last time he ran to sign a constitutional carry bill into law. Lawmakers in the GOP-controlled state legislature sent Kemp just such a measure last week and, once he signs it, Georgia will become the 25th… Continue reading Half the Country Now Has Permitless Carry

Mossberg continues to mine gold with their 940 series of autoloading shotguns. While the past installments have been Jerry Miculek series competition guns and a line of sweet-shooting hunting 12 gauges (Pro Goose, Pro-Turkey, etc.), the newest addition to the program is the optic-ready 940 Pro Tactical 8-shot semi-auto shotgun. It’s got all the bells… Continue reading Mossberg Debuts 940 Tactical

Sig Sauer has made some rimfire pistols in the past to include the almost universally-hated Mosquito (made 2005-2014) and a Umarex-made 1911-22 (2011-2014). However, for the better part of a decade, the company has left the .22LR pistol category to the other guys. That changed on 3/22 (get it?) with the introduction of the new… Continue reading Sig Re-enters .22LR Pistol Market with P322

Earlier this month, the ATF rejected 847 pending Form 1s– the paperwork needed to legally “make” a registered NFA item such as a suppressor, SBR, or SBS. The reason for the heartbreak is that the applicants had listed that they intended to use some sort of solvent trap to create a legal suppressor. Provided you… Continue reading Congress wades into Solvent Trap Issue

While the export of small arms and munitions from U.S. manufacturers to overseas customers in friendly countries is common, ITAR and Department of Commerce regulations usually mean it takes months of paperwork to get cleared– even if the items are already paid for via escrow– before it can ship out of the country. For more… Continue reading Gun Industry fast-tracking Ukraine items

Sig Sauer this month filed a lawsuit in a New Hampshire federal court against an attorney and his law firm over what the company says are “false and defamatory statements about, and animations of, the P320 model pistol.” The lawyer has represented police officers who experienced claimed “unexpected discharges” of their P320s without the trigger… Continue reading Sig goes after the Lawyer that went after them

 21 states WGov. Kay Ivey signing a bill on March 10th Speaking of election years, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, is making “constitutional carry” a corner post of his platform for November, a factor which will likely see him inking a proposal now winding its way through Atlanta right now. Should that hattrick hold,… Continue reading Permitless Carry Makes a Big Jump

Sig Sauer has (wait for it) announced a new model of the P320, the Spectre Comp. As the name would point to, it adds the Spectre treatment (stippled LXG Tungsten X-Series grip module, a Blackout Cerakoted optics-ready slide with a titanium nitride gold barrel and flat skeleton trigger, and X-RAY 3 day/night sights) with an… Continue reading New! Sig P320 Spectre Comp

On Feb. 28, Ammo Inc., with a factory in Wisconsin, responded to Ukraine’s President Zelensky’s apparent plea for ammunition (“I need ammo, not a ride…”) by donating 1 million rounds of non-specified “high-performance” ammunition to the country’s armed forces. Richard Childress, the NASCAR guy, is on the board of Ammo, Inc, and spoke to local… Continue reading Ammo Makers Pony Up for Ukraine