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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
George Peterson’s NFA Suppressor Case Exposes the Danger of Federal Gun Registries - Ammoland.com
George Peterson was a law-abiding citizen and federal firearms licensee (FFL) who believed in the principles of the United States Constitution. He was raising his children in his Louisiana home, living the American dream. He had a loving family and his dream of owning a firearms business. Nothing could be any better.
That all changed one Thursday morning in 2022, just days after former President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) into law. It started with a knock on the door. Then a rush of 50 to 100 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents and local law enforcement officers barged into the home that Peterson shared with his wife and juvenile children. These agents came in with ballistic helmets and body armor, armed with M4 rifles. The agents of the federal government held the man’s children, ages 12, 16, and 18, at gunpoint. At the same time, his FFL business was also raided.
“So, this happened back in 2022, where it was just a typical Thursday morning, and knock on the door, next thing I know, we have 50 to 100 ATF agents and local law enforcement in my home and in my office, where my FFL was, my little shop was,” Peterson told AmmoLand News. “And basically they came in with ballistic helmets, body armor, pointing M4 machine guns, assault weapons at my children and me, my juvenile children, ages 12, 16, and 18. They had machine guns pointed at them. And this was all over paperwork basically.”
The raid would be understandable if he were a dangerous, violent criminal, but Peterson was a family man with no criminal record. The show of force was out of the blue.
Click the link to read the whole article: Peterson’s NFA Case Exposes Danger Gun Registries
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Saturday, May 9, 2026
Pennsylvania Gun Owners Push Constitutional Carry and Preemption Bills in Harrisburg - Ammoland.com
Pennsylvania gun owners have two major Second Amendment bills moving in Harrisburg, and anti-gun cities should be paying attention.
SB 357 would bring Constitutional Carry to Pennsylvania. SB 822 would put real enforcement behind statewide firearm preemption. One bill protects the right to carry without a government permission slip. The other puts financial consequences on local governments that keep trying to create illegal gun-control traps.
If SB 357 becomes law, Pennsylvania would become the 30th Constitutional Carry state, confirming what gun owners already know: permitless carry is not an outlier. It is the normal rule across most of America.
Pennsylvania Gun Rights, the state affiliate of the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), is now urging gun owners to contact key senators and push for SB 357 to pass the full Senate “with no anti-gun amendments.” Their action alert notes that Pennsylvania has fallen behind the 29 states that already have Constitutional Carry laws on the books and says Republicans need to hear from gun owners as the bill moves forward.
Click the link to read the whole article: PA Gun Owners Push Constitutional Carry and Preemption
Tennessee Deadly Force Bill SB1847 Heads to Gov. Lee After Narrowing Property Defense Language - Ammoland.com
The Tennessee Legislature has sent Gov. Bill Lee a narrow but important reform to the state’s deadly-force law, and the fight over SB1847/HB1802 shows how much can change between a bill’s introduction and the final version that reaches a governor’s desk.
The Tennessee Legislature passed SB1847 on April 23, the last day of the legislative session. SB1847 includes the legal justification to use deadly force to protect property under certain limited circumstances. In this correspondent’s reading of the law, the legal ability to use deadly force under the bill is not very wide or broad. In the previous law, residents could use force to protect or recover property, but not deadly force.
The new language allows residents to use deadly force to prevent “the other’s imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or aggravated cruelty to animals; “if the resident reasonably believes the property cannot otherwise be protected and the use of lesser force would expose the resident or a third party to “a risk of death, serious bodily injury, or grave sexual abuse.”
Click the link to read the whole article: Tennessee Deadly Force Bill SB1847 Heads to Gov. Lee
SAF Urges Ninth Circuit To Strike California Open Carry Ban - Ammoland.com
SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros cut straight to the heart of California’s open-carry problem.
“The plain text of the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms – openly or concealed – and open carry has been the default manner of lawful carry for most of American history. California’s ban has no foundation in our nation’s tradition, and this Court should reaffirm that open carry is protected just as the Founders and generations of Americans understood it to be. As our brief argues, neither open nor concealed carry may be banned today.”
The Second Amendment protects the right to “bear arms.” California does not get to rewrite that command into a narrow government-approved privilege. The right is not limited to concealed carry. It is not erased because a state leaves behind a different, heavily regulated pathway to legally carrying. The Second Amendment is certainly not subject to California’s public-safety panic language dressed up as constitutional law.
Click the link to read the whole article: SAF Urges Ninth Circuit To Strike California Open Carry Ban
ATF Draft Form 4473 Changes Marijuana Question, Opens Door to Direct Gun Shipping - Ammoland.com
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has released a draft of its new “Firearms Transaction Record” form (ATF Form 4473), which has been shortened and simplified.
The first change to the form is the removal of “Non-Binary” under “Sex.” There are now only two choices: “Male” or “Female.” Some have claimed that the elimination of “Non-Binary” is a de facto transgender gun ban, but that claim doesn’t square with reality. Gun buyers are instructed to choose the sex they were assigned at birth. Since everyone is born either male or female, the question doesn’t prevent anyone from buying a gun.
In its current form, the 4473 asks the potential firearms buyer whether they are the “actual transferee/buyer” of the item in question. The way the question is worded makes it seem like you cannot legally buy a gun for another person.
That is not and never has been the law.
The new change to the question specifically calls out straw purchasing, which is against federal law. The change addresses concerns among family members and friends about buying firearms as gifts for others.
Click the link to read the whole article: ATF Draft Form 4473 Changes
Friday, May 8, 2026
Movie Review: Project Hail Mary
This coming Sunday is Mothers Day and it is also my 58th birthday. As a present one of my sons and and my middle daughter took me to Corpus Christi to the AMC theater to see Project Hail Mary.
The movie is based on a book by Andy Weir, the author of "The Martian" which was also made into a film, which starred Matt Damon.
One thing I will acknowledge, is that Andy Weir's use of technology in his works seems to be based on real world theoretical studies. Both in "The Martian" and in "Project Hail Mary". Thinking logically about it, it all hangs together.
Now on to the review.
First, I would like to point out a few things which took a lot of my enjoyment out of night out. The screen time said the show started at 7:15 p.m. After all of the advertisements and previews it was 7:57 p.m. before the opening credits crawl even started. And the VOLUME of those previews and advertisements, I am hard of hearing, but I am NOT THAT HARD OF HEARING!!
Sitting in the wheelchair accessible row in the center in my mobility chair, the sound was so loud, it was painful. Yes, I have frequencies I cannot hear very well. However there are some frequencies I can hear EXCEPTIONALLY WELL. And those previews and advertisements cranked to 11 were hitting those frequencies. I have issues hearing normal speaking frequencies, but I can hear ultrasonic alarms, and infrasound is actually painful for me to hear. But in the middle where people speak? That usually sounds like the person speaking is under water or speaking through glass. And the volume was so loud, it was if I had shoved my head into a speaker cabinet during a heavy metal concert.
Other than that, the theater was very clean, and maintained, the lighting was sufficient to safely navigate to the handicapped seating area without any issues.
All that being said, I will say, that Project Hail Mary is one of the movies I will be buying in both DVD and Blu-Ray format. The suspension of disbelief, the writing, the acting, the special effects, which were believable, not far fetched, all come together into a coherent whole that I found extremely enjoyable.
I do have just a couple of small quibbles, with things that happened during one of the spacewalks, but they are so minor, unless you were as heavy into space and technology like I have been most of my life, you wouldn't even notice them. So I don't need to even go further about them.
All in all, it was and is a very enjoyable movie which has what I consider to be a happy ending, even though it didn't look like it at first.
And YES! I want a Rocky Plushie.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Connecticut Glock-Style Pistol Ban HB 5043 Heads to Gov. Lamont - Ammoland.com
After clearing the Connecticut House in April, the so-called “convertible pistol” bill passed the state Senate 22–11 after an overnight debate and is now headed to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk. Local reporting says senators debated the bill from about 3 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. before approving it Wednesday morning.
HB 5043 is not a narrow bill aimed only at criminals caught with illegal machine-gun conversion devices. It targets the future sale and importation of common semiautomatic pistols, Connecticut politicians claim, can be “readily” converted with a so-called Glock switch.
The bill defines a “convertible pistol” as a semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be altered by hand or with a common household tool so the pistol can be converted into a machine gun by installing or attaching a pistol converter. The bill excludes hammer-fired pistols and certain shielded designs, but the target is obvious: Glock-style striker-fired handguns, among the most common defensive pistols in America.
If signed, the ban takes effect on October 1, 2026. The bill would make it a Class D felony to import, advertise, sell, offer, or expose for sale covered “convertible pistols,” with penalties reported as up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Click the link to read the whole article: Connecticut Pistol Ban Heads to Gov
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
CTRLPEW Expands Federal Lawsuit, Accuses California Of Policing 3D Gun Speech In Florida - Ammoland.com
Earlier this year, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sued CTRLPEW, LLC and The Gatalog for providing firearms computer-aided design (CAD) files over the internet. California law prohibits sharing files that allow users to 3D-print firearms at home. Although the law applies only to California residents, The Gatalog makes the files freely available to anyone on the internet via Odysee.com. California claims the two websites are violating the law even though neither is hosted in the state.
Alexander Holladay (known online as CTRLPEW), CTRLPEW, LLC, Centurion Partners Group, LLC, Jonathan Adams, and Trey Bickley are now suing the state of California. They allege that the state is infringing on their First and Second Amendment rights and assert claims of extraterritorial overreach and retroactivity.
Mr. Holladay is a designer and author of numerous CAD files for guns. Centurion Partners Group, LLC is a federally licensed firearms manufacturer (Type 07 FFL) that uses CTRLPEW resources for lawful business purposes. Mr. Bickley and Mr. Adams are Florida residents who receive, view, archive, and use the content. (Adams lawfully manufactured and possesses a Plastikov V4 firearm using CTRLPEW materials.)
Click the link to read the whole article: CTRLPEW Expands Federal Lawsuit
ATF Revised Machine Gun Definition Does Not Go Far Enough - Ammoland.com
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a slew of new and proposed rules today. One of these is the rule titled “Revising Machine Gun Definition in Response to Supreme Court Decision” (FR Document: 2026-08926). The rule is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on May 6, 2026, and becomes effective on that date.
The rule responds to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 14, 2024, decision in Garland v. Cargill. The Supreme Court ruled that the ATF exceeded its authority with the 2018 final rule (“Bump-Stock-Type Devices”), which had classified bump-stock-type devices as “machine guns.” The Court held that a semi-automatic rifle equipped with a (non-mechanical) bump stock does not fire more than one shot “by a single function of the trigger” or “automatically,” as required by the statutory definition in the National Firearms Act (NFA, 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b)) and the Gun Control Act.
The new rule removes the two sentences added by the 2018 bump stock rule. This change is the direct result of the Supreme Court’s Cargill ruling.
Click the link to read the whole article: ATF Definition Does Not Go Far Enough
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
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