Litigation & Stuff

• Follow-up on corner-crossing public land. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Director Christy Clark reaffirmed the agency’s position that corner crossing remains unlawful in Montana.
• Third Circuit steps up?
• The Lynchburg, Virginia Circuit Court struck down the state’s “universal background check” law and permanently halted enforcement across the Commonwealth.
• Special Taxes on Firearms are Unconstitutional. I’ve been saying that for over 40 years, and that includes the Pittman-Roberston (no relation) wildlife tax.
• SCOTUS Slates Several More 2A Cases for Consideration in Conference.
• The Hidden Question for SCOTUS in Its Newest 2A Case (Restoration of rights.)
• The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), joined by New Jersey Firearms Owners Syndicate, have filed a new lawsuit challenging the confiscation of a New Jersey resident’s firearms after his wife was involuntarily committed for a mental health evaluation. This is also known as felony theft.
• Last week we shared proposed changes to the ATF Form 1 process – applying to make a Title II Weapon. We have since learned that ATF also published a notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment on proposed changes to the Form 4 – application to transfer a Title II Weapon (machine gun).
• Grassroots Judicial Report.

The new NRA

• It does appear that the reformers have taken over and are working in a positive direction. Wayne LaPierre and his cabal are gone. Game on.
• Organizational Changes at the NRA
• National Rifle Association Announces Big Changes
• NRA Foundation Clarifies Independence Amid NRA Restructuring
• NRA HQ Furloughs
• NRA v. Ack-Mac And Others Finally Dead Or Near-Dead
• The NRA is also back at the Supreme Court seeking permission to pursue damages against a New York official who last year was adjudicated to have violated the NRA’s First Amendment rights by discouraging financial institutions from doing business with it, blaming the group for gun violence. The NRA wants the justices to rule on whether Maria Vullo, the former superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, has what’s known as “qualified immunity,” or a shield from liability for her official actions unless they clearly violated a law.
• Several NRA Board Directors have resigned recently, reportedly for various reasons. However, they are mostly “old guard” members.

Enemies

• It turns out that far-left Socialist Democrat gun-banner Zohran Mamdani, who was just elected to be the next New York City mayor, himself misused guns. Go figure.
• This week, gun-banning Nancy Pelosi, the first woman elected Speaker of the US House, said – if she can be believed – she will not seek another term in the House of Representatives after 40 years. Good riddance. She will continue to represent San Francisco in Congress through her current term, which ends in 2027.
• Giffords and The Wall Street Journal: Increase in Defensive Gun Uses “Must Be Stopped.” (And the alternative would be…?)
• 14 Ways Social Media Grooms Us To Accept Lies As Truth. FYI, any media headline that contains adjectives is suspect.
• UK A 49-year-old man from Leeds, England has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for possessing a handwritten recipe for gunpowder. Here ya go: 75% Saltpeter, 15% Charcoal, 10% Sulfur. Now we can all go to jail.

The Only Ones

• Mansfield, Ark. Police Officer Stephen Eric Townley, 42, pawned two pistols he took (stole) from the police chief’s office to pay his electric bill. When the chief discovered the guns were missing, he ran them through a law enforcement database and found where they had been pawned. I guess they don’t check the IQ of their recruits.
• The Loudoun County (VA) Sheriff’s Department (Sheriff Mike Chapman) made a false gun arrest and then lied about state law in a social media post.

DGUs

• You don’t see this headline very often: Mississippi woman kills escaped monkey fearing for her children’s safety.
• Jasper County pastor says he killed escaped monkey to protect family.
• The Armed Citizen:
  • America’s 1st Freedom – October 31, 2025
  • American Rifleman – October 31, 2025
• “Statistically speaking, half of all Americans will experience a home invasion over the course of their lifetimes.” – Dr. Dabbs

Studies & Such

• Audit reveals Marine Corps weapon storage security concerns.
• For the hand-wringers worried about children and guns: “Over the ten years from 2011 to 2020, there was an average of 43 deaths per year for children under 10. Over that period for children under 18, it averaged 92 accidental gun deaths a year. Or those under 10, earlier research showed about two-thirds of those accidentally shot to death were shot by adult males, usually in their late 20s who have violent criminal records and are drug addicts or alcoholics.”

Tactics & Stuff

• Working stiff slides. Ayoob video. Good.
• “Am I Overreacting?” How women can tell if someone is really a threat.
• CCW Safe has announced its new lesson-based monthly series, “The Armed Defender’s Dilemma.” Aiming to bridge the gap between firearm proficiency and the legal complexities of self-defense, this series was developed by self-defense litigation expert Shawn Vincent.
• FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program provides funding support for target hardening and other physical security enhancements and activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack. Churches, are you listening?

Industry News

• Air Force Sig death – the rest of the story.
• The Everyclown gun-ban group wants Ruger to discontinue RXM pistol production, saying that because the RXM pistol uses a trigger design that’s similar to the Glock models at issue, it is as easy to illegally modify into firing in full-auto. It said Ruger should either discontinue the RXM or change the trigger design. We are unaware of any such illegal modifications ever made to a Ruger RXM pistol.

Stories

• “When one of the PDF soldiers leaned out of a stall to curse at him, Eubanks shot him in the mouth with a 40mm grenade.” My wife was a Eubanks. ‘Nuff said.
• Imagining a New World Without the NFA.

Products

• Palmetto State Armory has a daily deal on the 6″ stainless Colt Python revolver for just $900 after rebate. Hopefully it will still be on sale when you get this.
• The scuttlebutt is that Ruger is going to get back into the shotgun business. Yay!
• Witt Machine‘s RAVENER-12 is the industry’s shortest full-bore 12-gauge suppressor engineered for hearing-safe performance, rugged field use, and seamless integration with popular shotgun platforms via your choke tube threads. It is just 6.5″ long and 1-5/8″ in diameter. $700.
• Meanwhile, Banish has their Banish 12 shotgun suppressor for $1200. It won Guns & Ammo‘s 2025 Suppressor of the Year. I really don’t need to be quiet that badly.
• Angstadt Arms has announced its Vanquish 22 suppressed barrel, now made specifically for the Ruger Precision Rimfire platform.
• The Scope Bumper – an enhanced lens cover.
• Zero Foxtrot has woobie jackets and vests. At a price.
• The .30-06 Tommy Gun. Just something else to want, I guess.
• Aimpoint offers its Micro H-2 Red Dot Reflex Sight in Orange Cerakote. We don’t know why.

What I’m reading.