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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
First Circuit Says Second Amendment Does Not Protect Buying Guns in Beckwith v. Frey - Ammoland.com
In a stunning ruling, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that the Second Amendment does not guarantee the right to acquire or purchase firearms.
The case, Beckwith et al. v. Frey, was brought by several Maine residents and businesses against Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey. It challenged a 2024 Maine law requiring a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases (Me. Stat. tit. 25, § 2016). The law was enacted six months after the October 2023 mass shooting at a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, in which 18 people were killed, and 13 others were injured. In response, the state introduced the “cooling off” period.
The plaintiffs argued that the mandatory three-day waiting period violated their Second Amendment rights. A federal district court judge agreed, finding that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits, would suffer irreparable harm, and that the balance of equities favor
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SCOTUS Lets Illinois Public Transit Carry Ban Stand, Leaving a Dangerous “Sensitive Places” Theory in Place - Ammoland.com
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Schoenthal v. Raoul, leaving in place a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld Illinois’ ban on carrying firearms on public transportation. The denial appeared on the Court’s April 6, 2026, order list, where No. 25-541, Schoenthal, Benjamin, et al. v. Raoul, Att’y Gen. of IL, et al. was listed under “CERTIORARI DENIED.”
That means the Seventh Circuit’s September 2025 opinion remains controlling law in Illinois, at least for now. And the real problem here is not just the result in one state. It is the reasoning the lower court used to get there. The Seventh Circuit said Illinois’ public-transit carry ban is “comfortably situated in a centuries-old practice of limiting firearms in sensitive and crowded, confined places,” then went a step further and held that regulations in “crowded and confined places are ensconced in our nation’s history and tradition.”
Once a court starts treating “crowded” and “confined” as the metric for creating a “sensitive place” ban, anti-gun states are going to try to apply that logic everywhere they can.
If carry can be banned in a place because it is busy, enclosed, or hard to exit, the list of so-called sensitive places will never stop growing. Today, it is buses and trains. Tomorrow, it is train stations, public parks, entertainment districts, events, and any other place politicians decide feel is too populated for ordinary citizens to exercise a right. That is exactly the kind of interest balancing that Bruen was supposed to stop.
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Monday, April 6, 2026
ATF Set to Introduce New Frames and Receivers Rule - Ammoland.com
In a filing in VanDerStok et al, v. Bondi et al. (formerly VanDerStok v. Garland), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has asked the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, to stay the case for 90 days due to an upcoming rule change.
The ATF’s Frames and Receivers Rule (officially Final Rule 2021R-05F, titled “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms”) is a 2022 regulation issued by the ATF. It updated the regulatory definitions of “firearm,” “frame,” and “receiver” under the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA). The rule effectively restricts the sale or transfer of most unfinished firearm frames and receivers that are not serialized – colloquially known as “80% firearms.” Although the official term is privately manufactured firearms (PMFs), anti-gun groups have demonized these items as “ghost guns.”
The rule was published in the Federal Register on April 26, 2022, and took effect on August 24, 2022. It remains in force following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision in Bondi v. VanDerStok (2025), which upheld the rule against a facial challenge.
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Hegseth Signs Memo Allowing Soldiers to Carry Personal Sidearms on DOW Property - Ammoland.com
Military policy on carrying personal firearms just got flipped by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who signed a memo directing military base commanders to allow personnel—“namely, uniformed service members”—to carry privately owned firearms “while in their nonofficial duty capacity on DOW property within the United States.”
Hegseth signed the memo while announcing the new policy on a video posted on “X” on Thursday. In his announcement, which ran just over 2 minutes, 30 seconds, Hegseth noted, “Before today, it was virtually impossible—most people probably don’t know this—for War Department personnel to get permission to carry and store their own personal weapons aligned with the state laws where we operate our installations. Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones, unless you’re training, or unless you’re a military policeman, you couldn’t carry. You couldn’t bring your own firearm for your own personal protection onto post. Well, that’s no longer.”
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Sunday, April 5, 2026
Having internet issues in my area.
even using data on my cell phone, connectivity is really bad, whether I'm on Wi-Fi, wired direct, or on 4G or 5G. I don't know exactly what the issue is, but it started last night. After fighting with it for several hours I said the heck with it and went to bed. I just got up an hour ago, and I am STILL fighting with garbage connectivity.
So updates today may be scarce.
So updates today may be scarce.
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