Colorado’s sweeping new law regulating the sale of many semiautomatic firearms is officially in effect. And gun stores are already seeing the fallout. According to reporting by Denver7, the buying frenzy that preceded the law has been replaced by noticeably quieter showrooms as customers try to figure out what they can still buy and what hoops they’ll now have to jump through. “It’s pretty quiet,” employees at Englewood’s The Shootist told Denver7 after weeks of record-breaking sales leading up to the Aug. 1 deadline. What Changed? Senate Bill 25-003 doesn’t outright ban ownership of AR-15s and other popular semiautomatic firearms.…

New Jersey is set to get its very first dedicated veteran advocate. Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill nominated Michael Embrich, a U.S. Navy veteran who served in Iraq, to lead a newly created position within the Office of the Veteran Advocate. The New Jersey Legislature created the office in 2025 to serve as an independent voice for The Garden State’s veteran community. Embrich served during both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and is a former policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He served aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and received the Meritorious Unit Commendation, Navy Unit…

The gun laws in Massachusetts are a legal labyrinth that seems designed to impede the right to keep and bear arms at every turn. In addition to banning many popular semi-automatic long guns, the state’s “Approved Firearms Roster” also prohibits the sale of common handguns unless they have (among other things) “safety features” like loaded chamber indicators and magazine disconnects (though makes and models that were offered for sale before the roster came into existence in the late 90s are typically grandfathered in).   Firearms Policy Coalition and several individual plaintiffs are challenging the Firearms…

There’s an old saying that common sense isn’t so common anymore. Whether that’s true probably depends on who you ask. But every so often a story comes along that makes just about everyone scratch their head. The latest comes out of Georgia, where an 8-year-old special needs student was suspended after bringing what school officials reportedly classified as a “weapon” to school. The weapon? According to NRA-ILA’s write-up, it was a tiny LEGO keychain built from a handful of plastic bricks that happened to resemble a pistol. If your first thought was, “Wait… seriously?” you’re not alone. When Does a…

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched a new clinical trial to test the effectiveness and safety of psilocybin—the main ingredient in magic mushrooms—in treating veterans with treatment-resistant depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The trial, called “Psilocybin Intervention for Veterans Overcoming Treatment-Resistant Depression” (PIVOT), will be conducted at the following locations: Birmingham VA Health Care System and Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center in Alabama; VA Portland Health Care System in Oregon; Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia; and VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, Washington. The trial comes after President Donald Trump issued an…

A federal judge in Texas just handed gun-rights advocates one of their biggest courtroom wins in years. And it could have major implications for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and the future of the National Firearms Act. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that the federal government can no longer require the registration of suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and certain other firearms whose $200 transfer tax was eliminated under the One Big Beautiful Bill. The ruling came in Jensen v. ATF, one of several lawsuits backed by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) challenging what’s left of the…