July background checks below 1M for the first time in six years. [More]

What did sales really tell us, anyway?
[Via WiscoDave]
Notes from the Resistance
July background checks below 1M for the first time in six years. [More]

What did sales really tell us, anyway?
[Via WiscoDave]
Bklyn’s Newest Gun Store in 50 Years Opens With Focus on Education and Safety [More]
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.
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]
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.

Republican Senator Fred Girod said he believed the point of the bill was to make guns more expensive. We disagree. The bill is clearly designed to make guns unavailable. [More]
Don’t look to the controlled opposition to deny a quorum.
UPDATE
I’m told the House decided a floor show was an appropriate people’s business concern:

An illegal alien from China pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for illegally exporting firearms, ammunition and other military items to North Korea by concealing them inside shipping containers that departed from the Port of Long Beach, California, and for committing this crime at the direction of North Korean government officials, who wired him approximately $2 million for his efforts… In May 2023, Wen purchased a firearms business in Houston, paid for with money sent through intermediaries by one of Wen’s North Korean contacts. Wen purchased many of the firearms he sent to North Korea in Texas and drove the firearms from Texas to California, where he arranged for them to be shipped. [More]
How did he pass NICS? How did he get an FFL? What was the name of his business? And where were all Joe Biden’s “zero tolerance” IOIs?
Funny, how “news” accounts by “real reporters” don’t seem to be curious.
How much more attention did he need to call to himself? Is it wrong to wonder if anyone’s palms were getting greased? Including not just his ATF overseers, but agents at docks approving shipments to hostile nations…?
What a Democrat dilemma that this illegal alien criminal will face deportation once he’s served his sentence. I can see heads exploding trying to figure which side to take.
UPDATE
Looks from the criminal complaint that he used “straw purchasers.”
I’m still not clear on what this “firearms business in Houston” is about, but then with all the stuff I gotta do today, I’ve only had time to scan the complaint, not go through it line-by-line.
[Via WiscoDave]
Citigroup lifts banking curbs on gun makers and sellers [More]
And I don’t see a firearms merchant category code…
It’s good to see them back in the business of being equal opportunity usurers, but I’m still not replacing the card I tore up after they decided to screw over gun businesses.
[Via Jess]
Reeves & Dola, LLP outlines what’s been said and calls our attention to an upcoming compliance conference where what it means for the industry/FFLs will be elaborated. [More]
There’s a new trend in gun ownership — more women are taking up firearms, not only for sport, but also for self-defense. According to Gallup, gun ownership among women rose from 15 percent in 2007 to 2012, to 20 percent in 2019 to 2024. [More]
Now watch NSSF gush!
As long as we’re sourcing Gallup:
U.S. Women Have Become More Liberal
[Via Andy M]
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to California ban on gun shows on public land [More]
They put about as much effort into it as most gun owners.
[Via Jess]
…and yet now I have a nagging feeling like I’m doing something wrong. Like I’m somehow putting myself and my partner at risk by having a gun in the house. [More]
I’ve never understood “gunfluencers” who think Democrats buying one is some sort of victory for “our side”…
[Via Michael G]
The FDIC will eliminate “reputational risk” from regulatory standards. Since President Obama began “Operation Choke Point,” Democrats and anti-gun financial institutions have weaponized “reputational risk” to de-bank the gun industry. [More]
See? Back and forth, back and forth…
[Via Jess]
The manufacturer will close its Bayonne operations and move jobs to its newly expanded headquarters in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. It will also move jobs to two additional facilities in nearby Ladysmith, Wisconsin. [More]
The state that elected this cheesehead governor…?

Oh, Henry…