Federal law prohibits any government agency from compiling a registry of gun owners and the firearms they own, but one Second Amendment group and multiple members of Congress say the ATF has done exactly that. Rep. Michael Cloud sent a letter to President Donald Trump this week urging the administration to take action and destroy more than a billion firearm records the ATF has obtained from firearm dealers that have gone out of business, arguing that the retention of these records has resulted in a searchable registry of gun owners in violation of federal law. Gun…

BANGKOK (AP) — Taiwan’s defense minister said Tuesday that existing U.S. arms sales to Taiwan remain unchanged, and that Taipei remains in talks with the U.S. over individual deals. A record $14 billion arms package to the island, however, remains stalled. The minister’s remarks come as concerns mount that President Donald Trump could halt arms sales to Taiwan. China has pressed Washington to halt the arms sales, most prominently during a May summit in Beijing between Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping. The United States paused the $14 billion arms deal after that meeting. “As for arms sales, we are…

The war against so-called assault weapons might never be fully resolved. While the Supreme Court will hear the Veramontes case and likely strike down the assault weapon ban as we know it, we also know that anti-gunners will never go quietly into that good night. It’s possibly the only thing to respect about some of them, if we’re being honest, and only barely. There’s no shame in backing down when you’re wrong, after all. But that doesn’t mean that so-called researchers won’t try to justify it.This time, we’ve got a study in Nature that claims…

The rush to build the next generation of military technology has drawn startups, Silicon Valley investors and former employees of companies such as SpaceX into the defense industry. One longtime investor says some newcomers are entering a field they barely understand. Van Espahbodi, a former Raytheon employee who was a co-founder of Starburst Aerospace, a startup, told Crunchbase News that investors who were backing software and consumer businesses now want to head into the defense technology sector. He has also talked to those in the beauty industry that are also defense-tech investors. “It creates what venture does best: tourists and…

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and a coalition of 24 other attorneys general and state officials have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging the justices to grant cert to Beckwith v. Frey, a challenge to Maine’s 72-hour waiting period for firearm transfers.  A district court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs but was reversed by the First Circuit, which held that waiting period laws don’t even implicate the Second Amendment. In fact, according to the appellate court, only when laws are so abusive that they effectively curtail the right entirely does the…

New legislation in Congress calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide rural veterans with direct loans so they can build their own homes. U.S. House Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) introduced the Veterans Owner-Buider’s Rights Act on Monday to expand VA home loans and give veterans a new path to homeownership as part of a five-year pilot program. “Building our own home was one of the hardest and most rewarding things I’ve ever done. While many vets have the relevant skills, they functionally can’t use their VA home loans and leverage their skills…

Four U.S. Navy personnel and two sailors suffered non-life-threatening injuries after the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier suffered an undisclosed “mishap.” The Navy said in an X post Tuesday morning that issues affected the two-seater plane when it was trying to land on the ship off the coast of Virginia on Monday, causing two aviators to eject from the plane and four shipboard personnel to suffer injuries. One sailor was taken to the hospital. “Our immediate priority is ensuring all personnel involved receive the care and support they need,” the Navy said in its statement. “Carrier crews regularly train…

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The city of Jacksonville, Florida is being sued, along with Mayor Donna Deegan and Sheriff T.K. Walters, over the disarming of several lawful gun owners in apparent violation of the state’s preemption law.  Florida Carry, along with Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation, filed the suit after several members ran headlong into what the organizations describe as “local firearm restrictions at Jacksonville venues,” some of which appear to be unwritten policies and practices. The lawsuit points to city-owned venues including EverBank Stadium (for a non-athletic event), the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts and…

FAIRFORD, England (AP) — A surprise decision by the U.K.’s counterterror police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot targeting a U.S.-operated air force base in England has raised questions and concern from many, including U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Five young British men were arrested early Sunday on explosives and terrorism charges near the RAF Fairford base, which has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including this year’s war with Iran. Counterterror detectives said they were investigating “multiple lines…

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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he’d signed a slew of gun control bills into law. In similarly surprising news, the sun rose in the east this morning here in Georgia and is still expected to set in the west.  One of the bills he signed would restrict 3D printers themselves, not just the 3D printing of guns as an activity.This is one we’ve spent a lot of time talking about, but now it’s here, and it has the potential to impact the entire industry, not just people stuck in hostile territory.So what does the law actually…