Litigation & Government

• The federal government’s brief in the AR-15 case before the US Supreme Court in Viramontes v. Cook County (7th Circuit) argues that AR-15s are arms, and they’re in common use. Therefore, DOJ concluded, AR-15 sales bans are incompatible with the Second Amendment. BUT, DOJ wants SCOTUS to determine that AR-15s are in common use by measuring how widely regulated a weapon happens to be, rather than by how widely possessed they are, saying “If Congress and a significant majority of the States have long banned or severely restricted a class of arms, that practice is strong evidence that the arms are not in common use.” No. You can’t outlaw something and then claim it’s not in common use after you prohibited its use and then use that fact to justify yourself. Arguments in the case, which has been consolidated with Grant v. Higgins (2nd Circuit), will be heard Dec. 2. The Court granted cert on only the question presented in Viramontes, which inquires: “Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles.” More here. We note that the “dangerous and unusual” concept is NOT in the Constitution.
• Related: “The more effective an arm is for the purposes for which a militia would require arms, the harder it should be to argue that its effectiveness somehow removes it from constitutional protection.” Yer darn tootin.
• Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has sued the BATFE and DOJ in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, asking a federal court to end National Firearms Act (NFA) registration for suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and “any other weapons” (AOWs). The case is Marshak v. ATF.

• Former US Navy Sailor Patrick “Tate” Adamiak has been issued a full and unconditional pardon by President Donald Trump. In a perverse and corrupt case, Adamiak was wrongfully arrested, falsely charged and convicted of illegally possessing a toy machinegun after 40 Biden-era BATF and other gestapo agents stormed his house, and the ATF tampered with evidence and their expert witness perjured himself in court. The feds also stole over $100k worth of Adamiak’s possessions. Adamiak has been serving a 20-year sentence in a federal pen. Four others were pardoned as well. No word on federal felony charges for the criminals who prosecuted and decided the case. If you break the law and/or perjure yourself to send an innocent man to prison, you should at a minimum serve that sentence. Adamiak will be attending the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas, Texas, scheduled for Sept. 25-27.
• The BATFE has quietly reversed part of its longstanding position on suppressor repairs, giving qualified manufacturers substantially more room to rebuild damaged silencers and convert registered suppressors to different calibers without treating the work as the manufacture of another National Firearms Act firearm.
• The US Fish and Wildlife Service is making more than 1,000 modifications to existing regulations, with an emphasis on clearer rules and better alignment with state wildlife regulations. ‘Bout time. All you really need is seasons and bag limits.
• Grassroots Judicial Report—September 9, 2026.
• SCOTUS Gun Watch 9/8/2026.

Enemies & Liars

• Fast & Furious. It will never go away.
• The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This time they didn’t say ban guns. They said make sure local governments can ban guns. I assume they also want local governments to be able to ban churches. After all, they’re both in the Bill of Rights.

Survey Says

• The survey we reported on last week, conducted by Georgetown University’s William English, found that over one-third of American gun owners have used a firearm in self-defense.

The Only Ones

• Upper Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, Police Cpl. Sean Farrell, 58, was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old who had arrived at a wrong house.
• A Georgia National Guardsman assigned to the Washington, D.C. mission is facing felony charges after he allegedly drew his weapon and aimed it at another guardsman during an argument about Army grooming regulations. Spc. Zion Mitchell, 21, was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.

DGUs

• Teen Sentenced to Probation After Shooting Mall Gunman
• Wheelchair-bound man is evicted from his apartment for shooting at robber
• The Armed Citizen (American Rifleman) – September 4, 2026 and September 7, 2026

GFZs

• Florida woman, 70, opens fire inside Port Orange police department lobby. Gun free zone.

Tactics & Stuff

• Condition Three. I keep telling people. Some are deaf.
• Weaselcraft.
• Heat, bomb threats, etc. He’s exactly right. If you can’t sit around in Tennessee heat at 10 am for an hour without having a heat stroke, you need to throw away your phone and get into an outside training program. Better yet, get an outside manual labor job.
• P&S has posted a list of curated instructors. Click on an instructor’s name and you will see what he teaches, what his background is, what his students say about his classes, and his training philosophy. Keep in mind that this list is not all-encompassing. It focuses primarily on instructors who have some association with the P&S website or podcast.
• Coming to a mosque near you.

Products

• Field Tested: BOSS Copper Shotshells.
• Rimfire Ammo: Evaluating Terminal Performance. Dated, but good info.
• Federal Ammunition’s new Cosmic shotshells have a UV-fluorescent Podium wad and neon colors on the shells and box that glow under black light for fun clay target shooting. The new 12-gauge load features 1⅛-ounce No. 8 shot at 1,145 feet per second. $17 per box of 25.

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“Shooting without a suppressor is uncivilized.” — Ethan Lessard

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