Category: gun sales

An Age-Old Question

How Old Do You Have to be to Buy a Gun [More]

Tench Coxe said “sixteen to sixty” as fit for militia service, but never even hinted at ownership prohibitions on either side of that range.

U.S. Code says “The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age,” so how it can then require 21 for handguns is one of those paradoxes that can only be explained by pointing out fraud.

Michael Bloomberg says “25”… if you’re a minority male.

And, of course, we know the goal is Democrats would rather see you dead first.

We’re All Suspects Now

Gun store owner says FBI asked him to check firearm sales against list of names, pics in Guthrie case… He said none of the names returned a match for firearm purchases within the past year. According to Martin, the agent told him investigators planned to visit additional gun stores to determine whether anyone on the list had recently bought a weapon. [More]

Why didn’t they just ask ATF?

What did Inspector Clouseau say?

[Via Steve T]

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]