Trumped

• The Revisions of Firearms License Requirements Final Rule posted in the Federal Register by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security rolls back the export restrictions for firearms and related ammunition and components. The BIS determined that the Interim Final Rule, published by the Biden administration, should – and will – be rescinded in its entirety.
• The US Dept. of Justice is prepared to defend the Biden ATF’s “engaged in the business” rule despite President Trump’s executive order on Second Amendment cases.
• No, Trump Should Not Declare Foreign Semi-Autos “Sporting.” In a nutshell, the Second Amendment ain’t about sports, period.

Litigation

• US District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas ruled that both the US Post Office’s own regulation and a federal law barring firearms possession in a “federal facility” cannot survive scrutiny after the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in the Bruen case. Judge O’Connor ruled that the long-standing federal ban on firearms inside United States Post Offices and on surrounding postal property is unconstitutional as applied to members of the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and two named Texas plaintiffs. He granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs, striking down 18 U.S.C. § 930(a) and 39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l) as applied to the prohibition on carrying firearms for self-defense at what the court defined as ‘ordinary’ post offices. These are stand-alone post offices not located on military bases or inside multi-use federal facilities that house other government functions where firearms would otherwise be prohibited.
• Points: No Historical Precedent: Post offices existed before the founding of the country. Despite 200 years of post office history, there were NO firearms restrictions until 1972.
• Not a “Sensitive Place:” The court rejected the government’s claim that all federal buildings are by default gun-free zones. Post offices don’t rise to the level of courthouses or legislative assemblies. (Never mind that “sensitive places” aren’t in the Constitution in the first place.)
• Government Can’t Hide From the Constitution: The government argued it could ignore the Second Amendment in post offices because it owns the buildings, so it was just banning guns there as a “landlord.” (Actually we the people own the buildings AND the parking lots.) The court saw right through this and rejected it outright.
• So, all of these 31,542 places:

• But also from the Northern District of Texas, Judge Mark T. Pittman (no known relation) erroneously upheld patently unconstitutional federal regulations that prohibit peaceable Americans from purchasing handguns from federally licensed dealers across state lines.
• US District Court Judge Victor A. Bolden in Connecticut has erroneously ruled that the state’s ban on lawful concealed carry in its state park system comports with the history and tradition of gun ownership. Judge Bolden largely relied on the Second Circuit’s previous bogus decision upholding many of New York’s “gun-free zones.”
• The Civil Rights Division of the US Dept. of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department due to their pattern or practice of infringing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens seeking concealed carry weapons permits. “The scope of this constitutional violation is staggering,” the complaint says. “Between January 2024 and March 2025, Defendants received 3,982 applications for new concealed carry licenses. Of these, they approved exactly two – a mere 0.05% approval rate that cannot be explained by legitimate disqualifying factors alone. This is not bureaucratic inefficiency; it is systematic obstruction of constitutional rights.”
• The LASD responded, saying it “respects the Second Amendment” and processes all gun carry permit applications “in compliance with (unconstitutional) state and local laws.” Right. And the sheriff himself said, “I wish we didn’t have to make people wait too long,” while his office statement denies that they make people wait too long. By the way, one second is too long.
• A new lawsuit filed against the National Shooting Sports Foundation alleges the organization obtained customers’ data from major gun manufacturers – via warranty registrations – whose customers never agreed to share their personal information for political purposes. The suit filed by two gun owners alleges “unjust enrichment” – that the NSSF benefited from using gun owners’ information without paying for it.
• Grassroots Judicial Report.

Enemies

• Gun ban group Everytown for Gun Safety’s new “firearms training” program, Train SMART, met stiff opposition from Everytown’s own members and longtime supporters, because their ilk don’t want gun safety. They want gun bans.

• Stephen Colbert. Still. Good riddance.
• Former FBI agent Christopher O’Leary went on MSNBC to tell President Trump to bend the knee and stop the deportations of people here illegally, or the attacks will not only continue, but they will escalate. No. We will fight back, or preemptively. Your move.

Studies

• You may have seen a report on a study that claims “pediatric homicides” in the home are lower in states with more gun control. Bogus.
• Exploring The Difference Between FBI Murders and CDC Homicides. (Mississippi & Jackson connections).
• The average school attack has a duration of 3 to 5 minutes, while the average response time by law enforcement is 5 to 10 minutes, and RARELY do responding police stop an attack.
• UPDATED: How mass killers pick out venues where their victims are sitting ducks. “Given that people are allowed to carry their permitted concealed handguns in the vast majority of public places, if these mass public shootings were random, 95% or higher of these attacks would take place in areas where permitted concealed handguns were allowed. Instead, the reverse is true, with 94% of those attacks taking place where general citizens are banned from having guns.”

The Only Ones

• Off-duty NYPD cop shoots man who tried to rob her and husband at NYC’s Penn Station. Of course the rest of us aren’t allowed to defend ourselves there. What makes them more worthy?
• An unidentified overweight Secret Service Uniformed Division officer allegedly fell asleep on the job – in full public view – while providing “security” at the United Nations General Assembly last week, according to multiple law enforcement sources. The same officer also has been accused of leaving his semi-automatic rifle unattended while taking a bathroom break from his security duties.
• An unidentified Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police sergeant was arrested by federal agents this week and charged with weapons charges, assaulting a police officer and fleeing the scene.
• Portland Police Bureau “dialogue liaison officers” are sworn police officers, though they act in the role of a liaison and “cannot get involved in enforcement action.” Paid for with your tax dollars.

DGUs

• “It’s good to have everything at your disposal, to be prepared.”
• The Armed Citizen:
  • America’s 1st Freedom – September 26, 2025
  • American Rifleman – September 26, 2025
  • American Rifleman – September 29, 2025

Not DGUs.

• You heard about the LDS church attack in Michigan. Pistol free zone unless you have permission. In this case the church denied permission and innocent people died. (In Mississippi you can legally carry in a church only with the enhanced CCW license, according to the unconstitutional law and illiterate cops and lawyers. (It also matters not whether you are a member or even have permission.) We also note that Brigham Young himself delivered his sermons while openly wearing two revolvers. But I digress. Well, the cops arrived just 30 seconds after the first 911 call and several people still died and were injured, while the cops terminated the attacker – a veteran “Only One” – some eight minutes after the call.
• UK Mass Stabbing Takes Place at Manchester Synagogue

Tactics & Stuff

• Why carry? For monsters. Really. Read it and weep.
• Dealing with astigmatism.
• Breaching doors with a shotgun.
• Best Small Handgun for Women: Five Contenders Put to the Test. Despite the denial, this is an apples vs. oranges list, since some are 1911-style single actions and some are not.
• Object lessons.
• Grizzly with a .223.

Obit

• John Calhoun Sullivan, Jr. One of our own.

Industry News

• Beretta has acquired a 7.735% stake in Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc., and does not CURRENTLY intend to seek control of the company but plans to engage in discussions with Ruger management and board about the business and potential operational or strategic collaborations.
• Big River Ballistics, formerly known as Pelahatchie Firearms in central Mississippi, has reportedly opened a new world class membership facility at Morton, MS. Up to 1,500 yards available. I am not familiar with these folks or the company.

Products

• Antithesis update. “Unfortunately, Franklin Armory falsely represented to consumers that these weapons are not ‘short-barreled rifles’ and that they could be transferred without complying with the National Firearms Act.”
• Budget guns. Even if you don’t need to stick to a budget, maybe you should have some budget guns.
• The Civilian Marksmanship Program has moved its auction operations onto Gunbroker.com. Since CMP is a non-profit, no extra fees will be charged on the GunBroker platform.
• Skeeter & Bart Skelton guns at auction.
• A company called Silent Steel USA – an extension of a Finnish company – is offering a few suppressors without baffles. They look quite a bit like glass-pack mufflers to me. Interestingly, they don’t seem to say how much sound reduction they accomplish. In fact, if you do a search for decibel or dB on their website, there are zero results.

• Yep, it’s real.