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FPC Challenges D.C.'s Legal Catch-22
FPC is asking the full D.C. Circuit to kill a decades-old rule that blocks Second Amendment lawsuits unless plaintiffs risk felony prosecution first — and to let its challenge to D.C.'s magazine ban finally be heard on the merits.
Federal's 6.5 Creedmoor +Peak Wins Top Award
Federal's 6.5 Creedmoor +Peak took Best Ammunition New Product at the 2026 NASGW-POMA Caliber Awards, pushing a high-pressure Peak Alloy case into a cartridge that fits rifles shooters already own.
DOJ Resists Expanding NFA Injunction
ATF's NFA Truce Has An Expiration Date
ATF Makes NFA Non-Enforcement Official
ATF Halts NFA Enforcement Nationwide
Democrats Fight DOJ Handgun Opinion
Denver's Carry Trap Challenged
Visiting North Carolina With a Gun: Rules for Nonresidents
Buffalo Gun Show
Buffalo, MO · O'Bannon Community Building
The IDPA Match for has been Canceled.
Sciota, PA · Blue Ridge Cherry Valley Rod & Gun Club
Protective Operations Supervisor Training (POST)- Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas, NV · Progressive FORCE Concepts – Headquarters
Competition Match
Frederick, MD · Precision Point Shooting & Training Center
Visiting North Carolina With a Gun: Rules for Nonresidents
Driving Through Georgia With a Gun: FOPA Safe Passage and State Carry Rules
Guns, Bars and Alcohol in Ohio
Carrying a Gun in Your Car in Pennsylvania
Home Defense Firearms: Shotgun vs Pistol vs AR-15
Somebody breaks your front door at 2 a.m. You've got maybe seconds to get to your firearm, get your family clear, and be ready. The gun sitting in your nightstand better be one you can actually run -- not the one that looked cool at the gun store six months ago.
Concealed Carry Holster Types Explained
You bought the gun. You took the class. Now you're standing in a gun store or scrolling through Amazon at midnight, staring at roughly four hundred holster options and wondering how any of this is supposed to make sense. It doesn't — until someone explains what the trade-offs actually are.
Beginner's Guide to Shotgun Sports: Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays
You show up at a clay range for the first time and someone hands you a shotgun, points at an orange disc screaming across the sky, and says "just follow it." You shoot. You miss. You shoot again. And somewhere around the third or fourth broken clay, something clicks -- and you get it.
Walther P99
Complete reference on the Walther P99 — specs, variants, trigger systems, history, notable users, and an honest shooter's assessment of this German duty pistol.
CZ 82
Complete reference on the CZ 82 (Vz. 82): specs, history, variants, performance, and honest assessment of the Czech military surplus 9x18 Makarov pistol.
SIG Sauer SP2022
Complete reference on the SIG Sauer SP2022 — specs, variants, history, French police contract, and honest shooter's assessment of SIG's polymer workhorse.
History of Firearms
A comprehensive overview tracing 800 years of firearms history — from Chinese fire lances to 3D-printed receivers — across seven major eras of innovation.
CAT Outdoors
Cadillac, MI
Pelcher Outdoors
Lansing, IL
Extreme Stress Shooting
Great Falls, MT
Xcel Shooting Sports, LLC
Kalispell, MT
Great Falls Shooting Sports Complex
Great Falls, MT
OBUR
Polaris, MT
Advanced Arms
Pittston Township, PA
Michigan Shooting Centers, LLC
Lake Orion, MI
Elmos
Brownsville, PA
Idaho Arms and Ammo LLC
Meridian, ID
The History of Firearms
800 years from fire lances to 3D-printed receivers. An interactive timeline through the complete evolution of firearms technology.
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