Category: gun sales

Fair Share?

NSSF Touts Bill Banning Unfair Gun Taxes [More]

Anyone care to name a fair one?

NSSF: Isn’t that the group that “celebrates firearm and ammunition manufacturers topping $17 billion in excise tax contributions to the Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund since its inception in 1937″?

I’m not a hunter. If I ever decide to, I’ll pay my way. Until then, why should I indirectly fund a socialist Fudd tax on the price of guns and ammo, especially when so many of them are out there undermining my right to keep and bear arms?

[Via Nicholas]

And Another One Gone, and Another One Gone, Another One Bites the Dust

Firearms manufacturers that closed down operations and filed for bankruptcy in 2025 included SCCY Industries LLC, whose assets were seized by the Volusia County Tax Office of Florida at its Daytona factory on March 11, 2025, for non-payment of tax debts of almost $250,000… And now, struggling firearms maker and dealer Custombilt Firearms Manufacturing LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after battling the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over its license in 2023 and 2024. [More]

So, unlike Big Rock, they’re both being shut down by governments headed by “pro-gun” administrations…?

[Via Jess]

The Going Rate

AP: ‘Experts’ Warn that 2-Year, 44% Decline in Mass Killings Is Not Necessarily Cause for Optimism [More]

How that squares with all those new gun owners is left unsaid.

Still, they have a point. And it won’t take all that much to affect rates, especially as hatred against traditional Americans is being ratcheted up and at some point the restraints are gonna come off.

[Via bondmen]

I’ve Got Mine!

Federal Judge: Biden ATF Rule on Firearms Sales Cannot Be Used Against NRA Members [More]

Speaking as Life Member who is now covered, let me just say that equal protection should demand it apply to everyone else, as well.

Note the difference in that attitude, and the attitude of “Only Ones” benefiting from LEOSA but unwilling to invite those of us on the outside in.

[Via bondmen]

Trading Up

The Commission should support this effort by rooting out and helping to remedy any activities by the Biden-era FTC that may have improperly aligned the agency with anti-Second Amendment non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”) or otherwise infringed upon Second Amendment rights. [More]

I’m all over Larry Keane and NSSF when they suck up to tyranny, so I gotta give them credit when they do good.

The FTC commissioners are all Republicans, so there’s no excuse for them not taking a leadership position in protecting firearms commerce.

So why haven’t they already declared new policy? Why do they have to be publicly prodded?

[Via Antigone]

UPDATE

By all means, educate me on their leadership:

It shouldn’t be this hard to find.

Pushing Back

The gun lobby claims it is “winning” the fight against Australia’s longstanding crackdown on firearms, pointing to a sharp increase in licensed gun owners and weapons since laws were introduced in the aftermath of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre as a sign of its strength. [More]

I wish them luck.

They gotta work on that “licensing” thing.

[Via Jess]

To Their Credit

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under Director Russ Vought on Tuesday closed a Biden-era investigation against Credova, a subsidiary of Public Square that provides consumer financing for firearms, believing this is yet another example of weaponization of government that the Trump administration hopes to end, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. [More]

This good cop/bad cop makes my head hurt.

[Via bondmen]

Where Credit is Due

According to the actual complaint, a Florida gun dealer became suspicious of Delgado after he tried to purchase his fourth Barrett rifle, which can retail for $10,000 or more. As a result, the gun dealer contacted the ATF directly. [More]

If he hadn’t reported suspicions he’d have been treated as a co-conspirator. That, to me, is the greater issue.

Don Jr.’s $econd Amendment

Trump Jr. takes gun company public at NYSE hoping to end ‘woke’ mindset in new ‘cultural shift’ [More]

Great. I’m a big believer in 2A and capitalism (just not the connected crony public/private partnership/fascist kind). That said, you’ll forgive me for wondering if it’s all about Phase 3 for the guy.

It’s not exactly like he actually did anything when there was no money in it for him.

And speaking of money…

[Via Andy M]

Our Hero!

This was a heroic action by the employee and undoubtedly saved who knows how many lives. [More]

So the position of the industry is “gun control” works but NICS needs a vigilante assist?

Doesn’t that also play into the hands of lawfaring gun-grabbers who argue dealers without psychic abilities are negligent and liable? And can they still do that if the person is the “wrong” color?

I note they’re prosecuting the guy for lying on the 4473. Guess he didn’t have the right dad.

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