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Friday, September 4, 2026
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Third Circuit Upholds Machine Gun Ban, Creates Bruen Loophole for Gun Registration - Ammoland.com
The Third Circuit ruled that machine guns are protected “Arms,” then upheld the federal ban anyway. Its treatment of suppressor registration may be even more dangerous for gun owners.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit handed the federal government two victories Monday, upholding Joseph Paul Berger’s convictions for possessing machine guns and unregistered suppressors.
The machine gun ruling in United States v. Berger is bad enough. The court acknowledged that machine guns fall within the Second Amendment’s plain text, only to uphold the federal ban by declaring them unsuitable for lawful civilian use.
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ATF Statement in Rare Breed Trigger Litigation Raises Questions on Legal Authority - Ammoland.com
The Justice Department is again lending the federal government’s weight to Rare Breed Triggers’ private patent-enforcement campaign, and ATF is remarkably candid about what it hopes to accomplish.
DOJ filed a seven-page Statement of Interest on August 31 in In re: Rare Breed Triggers Patent Litigation, the consolidated litigation pending before Chief U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant III in the Eastern District of Texas.
“The government, through the ATF, has a strong interest in promoting the safe use of firearms by the public, and in this particular case, in discouraging unregulated manufacture of forced reset triggers that allegedly infringe Rare Breed’s patents,” the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives asserted in a Monday filing in United States District Court.
“The government submits this Statement of Interest to provide the Court with the ATF’s views on public interest considerations for the four-factor test for a preliminary injunction,” ATF declared. “For a preliminary injunction, the four-factor test requires a showing of (1) a likelihood of success on the merits; (2) a likelihood of irreparable harm (with no adequate remedy at law); (3) the balance of the hardships is in favor of the party seeking injunction; and (4) that an injunction is in the public interest.”
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California Passes Conditional Ban on 3D Printers Without Firearm-Blocking Software - Ammoland.com
California has passed AB 2047, the California Firearm Printing Prevention Act, and the bill is now on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk.
The measure, authored by Assembly Member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, would eventually require consumer 3D printers sold or transferred in the state to include “firearm blocking technology” intended to identify and stop print jobs for firearms and certain illegal parts, including machine-gun conversion devices. After weeks of amendments, the Legislature sent the enrolled bill to the governor in the closing hours of the 2026 session. Newsom has until the end of September to sign or veto it.
The version that reached his desk is far narrower than the bill that first cleared the Assembly in May. The Senate stripped several of the most aggressive enforcement tools after lawmakers and industry groups argued they were technologically infeasible or overbroad. Gone are the original criminal misdemeanor for disabling the software, the $25,000-per-violation civil penalties, the mandatory manufacturer self-attestation process, and a public roster of “compliant” models.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Qilin Hackers Leak ATF Investigation Files After Ransomware Breach - Ammoland.com
For a brief period on Monday, the Russian-linked ransomware group Qilin posted over 6GB of files it claimed were stolen from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The dump followed last week’s public listing of the ATF on Qilin’s leak site, first reported by AmmoLand News. Although the files have not been officially authenticated by the bureau, AmmoLand News sources inside the ATF have said the material is genuine.
Qilin is a Russia-based cybercrime syndicate that sells ransomware-as-a-service. Affiliates use its tools to break into target networks, steal data, and then post a countdown on Qilin’s dark-web blog. If the ransom is not paid by the deadline, the group publishes the stolen files. The ATF timer hit zero on Monday. Qilin then released more than six gigabytes of data for a short window before taking the files down. When Qilin pulls a dump, it often means a ransom was paid. There is no public evidence that the ATF paid.
Even after the files disappeared, enough of the package was recovered to identify the compromised environment. The breached system was the ATF’s Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) system.
Click the link to read the whole article: Hackers Leak ATF Investigation Files
Judge Uses ‘Infancy Doctrine’ to Uphold Hawaii’s Under-21 Gun Ban - Ammoland.com
A federal judge has upheld Hawaii’s sweeping gun ban for adults under 21 by treating Founding-era restrictions on minors entering contracts as evidence of a historical tradition of denying them access to firearms.
In a 43-page order, U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake denied the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, granted Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez’s counter-motion, and directed the clerk to enter judgment for the state and close the case.
The lawsuit was originally filed as Pinales v. Lopez but is now captioned Roache v. Lopez following the dismissal of plaintiff Elijah Pinales. The remaining plaintiffs are Juda Roache, the Second Amendment Foundation, and Hawaii gun dealers Aloha Strategics LLC and JGB Arms LLC.
AmmoLand previously covered the lawsuit when SAF challenged Hawaii’s prohibition on otherwise qualified adults between 18 and 20 acquiring firearms or ammunition.
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