Litigation

• 10th Circuit gives gun lovers small win in mixed ruling on ghost guns.
• The National Firearms Act imposed an unconstitutional $200 tax on short-barreled long guns, suppressors and the like. In 2025, Congress reduced that tax to $0, but left the remaining unconstitutional registration requirements. The Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition and their partners have filed three cases to fix that: Brown v ATF in the Eastern District of Missouri, Jensen v ATF in the Northern District of Texas, and Roberts v ATF in the Eastern District of Kentucky.
• SAF has also filed suit in Defense Distributed v. Blanche (formerly VanDerStok v. Bondi), challenging the ATF’s rule which expands the definition of “firearm” to encompass precursor parts.
• Why I don’t go to Illinois: An Illinois man was found not guilty of any shooting or assault-related charges after a defensive gun use, but was convicted of felony aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon in the same incident. So it’s legal to defend yourself, but a felony to be peacefully prepared to defend yourself.
• Grassroots Judicial Report—April 29, 2026.
• SCOTUS Gun Watch 4/27/2026.

Government

• Big Brother is still loading up. However, we have a report that “armed Federal Investigators” (1811 category) exist in every agency, and they are mandated to use certain equipment when executing warrants. These 1811 investigators can be grabbed and used to “support” other agencies’ missions at any time and anywhere in the world. They do not have a choice. I suggest that perhaps “armed Federal Investigators” shouldn’t exist in every agency. Every agency shouldn’t have its own police force. That’s why we have US Marshals and the FBI.
• Major Second Amendment Overhaul at ATF/DOJ. The official language of these measures has yet to be published in the Federal Register, as the new ATF director’s commission is still making its way through the bureaucratic process, and his signature as director is required on each rulemaking to make it official. But it’s a good start.
• The US Senate has voted to confirm current Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Robert Cekada in a bipartisan vote of 59-39.
• Trumped.
• “Career Criminal” Extremist Went To Church. The FBI Used SPLC To Launch A War On Catholics.
• A group of House Republicans is calling on the Department of War to protect US citizens’ Second Amendment rights on Army Corps of Engineers managed property. Two dozen GOP lawmakers led by Texas Rep. Pat Fallon penned a Tuesday letter to Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll asking him to direct the United States Army Corps of Engineers “to immediately finalize and implement” a rule change from President Donald Trump’s first administration. The updated guidance would allow Americans to carry firearms on the nearly 12 million acres of land the USACE manages, respecting state laws.

NRA

• Jeff Knox’s report on the NRA meetings. Very encouraging.
• The following officers were elected by unanimously by acclamation:
  • President – Bill Bachenberg
  • First VP – Mark Vaughan
  • Second VP – Rocky Marshall
  • Exec VP – Doug Hamlin
  • Secretary – John Frazer (Was on the ballot because the intended replacement backed out. John will remain in the Secretary’s position with the intention that a replacement found within the next 6 months)
  • Treasurer – Mike Erstling

Enemies

• Gun ban groups change horses: now they claim that the Second Amendment only protects those arms that are in common use for self-defense, and NOT “sporting” arms; essentially reversing decades of their public statements and policies. In other words, they lie however it suits them at the time.
• Everytown Gun Ban Group Using AI to Strip Away Our Second Amendment Rights. Well you know, since they don’t have any actual intelligence…
• Mississippi’s 2nd District gerrymandered-congressman-for-life-poster-child and gun banner Bennie Thompson (D) received an endorsement for his re-election campaign from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Action Fund on Monday. SPLC Action Fund is the 501(c)(4) affiliate organization to the Southern Poverty Law Center hate group, the same group the US Department of Justice charged with fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering last week. Makes sense.
• Just minutes after the third attempt to kill President Donald J. Trump, in addition to senior members of his staff, CNN’s Idiot-in-Chief Brian Stelter was calling for more gun control.
• Meanwhile, the NY Post called TWO firearms “an arsenal.”
• We have a report that Stellantis NV is deploying firearm-sniffing dogs at several of its auto plants.
• We reported two years ago that a Colorado activist in charge of an anti-gun and anti-violence organization called Heavy Hands, Heavy Hearts was arrested in the shooting death of a man at that man’s son’s fifth birthday party. Lumumba Sayers Sr. was originally charged with first-degree murder, and has now been convicted of second-degree murder.

The Only Ones

• James Bushey, former chief of police in the Town of Linn, a community of about 2,700 people in southeastern Wisconsin, has been implicated but not charged in a scheme to illegally import armor piercing ammo from Europe.

DGUs

• Homeowner Opens Fire on Alleged Intruders, Critically Wounding One
• Off-Duty New York State Trooper Shoots Knife-Wielding Carjacker at Yonkers Gas Station
• The Armed Citizen (American Rifleman) – April 24, 2026 and April 27, 2026

Not a DGU

• For the second time in as many weeks, a person was killed by wild elephants. This one was an American hunting antelope in the central African country of Gabon who “surprised” a herd of the pachyderms.
• You don’t often see this headline: “Woman Killed After Accidentally Stepping on Bear.”
• Man held up with his own stolen gun.

GFZs

• About that Mall of Louisiana shooting attack:

Tactics & Stuff

• The Rangemaster May newsletter is out. A couple of good discussions here.
• Criminals pretending to be police are becoming a national problem.
• Top Concealed Carry Errors Explained.
• KelTec P32: How we got here.
• Are the 9mm and 30 Super Carry magic bullets, due to rifling twist rate? Color me skeptical. Although its logical, no math or test data related to terminal performance is included. If you look at actual terminal testing, such as used in the FBI protocol, you just don’t see evidence of this “advantage,” compared with other, slower-twist rounds.
• Commas save lives

Industry News

• State of the Ammo Industry Spring 2026.

Products

• The “Best” Lever Action Rifles, Tested and Reviewed. Mann.
• New Fiocchi anti-drone ammunition. Be reminded that shooting at drones in the USA is a federal crime.
• Tokarev’s new TSP (Tokarev Stock Pump) shotgun uses a stock that pumps in lieu of a pump forearm to work the action. There’s also a semiauto version in which the stock pump replaces the charging handle. I see no advantages.
• TANDEMKROSS, in coordination with Davidson’s, has introduced their first complete rifle, the TKX22 Light Rifle. Claimed to be the world’s lightest premium .22 autoloading rifle at less than 3½ pounds, it’s built with the company’s receiver, the Spitfire lightweight barrel, fiber-optic sights, the Manticore LITE Trigger Assembly, KrossFire bolt and more. Looks like a 10/22. $1450.
• Bear Creek Arsenal’s BC-47 series is a family of 7.62×39 AK-pattern rifles, a type of AKM, with a stamped receiver. $900.
• Davidson’s has two new Exclusive Colt revolvers with round-butt grip frames and 2½ inch barrels in the Anaconda and Python lines. The Anaconda round-butt, Item#ANACONDA-RSP2TS, and the Python round-butt, Item#PYTHON-RSP2TS, both have an MSRP of $1,699.
• Steyr has a new series of straight-pull rifles. The RMS Wild builds on the Monobloc design, where the barrel and receiver are made from a single continuous piece of steel. .308 & .30-06 so far, and not available in the USA, yet.
• Girsan’s MC 1911 S Hunter is a long-slide (6″ barrel) 1911 in 10mm. $900.