A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Firearms Act (NFA) no longer applies to suppressors and other items whose taxes were reduced to $0 in July 2025.

United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, granted a motion for summary judgement from attorneys representing the Silencer Shop Foundation Wednesday. In the 66-page opinion, Hendrix said that because taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other items had been reduced to $0 by legislation signed by President Donald Trump in July 2025, the registration and paperwork imposed by the NFA exceeded Congress’ authority under the taxation power.

I suspect that the fifth circuit will uphold this ruling and then it will go to the SCOTUS. With Ms. Barrett and Ms. Roberts on the court, it’s anyone’s guess what they do.

Watch the pronghorn turn on the afterburner and easily outrun a wolf.

Pronghorn.

“Second Amendment attorney Stephen Stamboulieh (@Stambo2A) has accepted a position with the Department of Justice,” Second Amendment legal reporter Rob Romano announced Monday to his followers on X. He included a link to Court Listener, And Stamboulieh’s Aug. 3 “Motion to Withdraw as Counsel” in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Well, there’s no law that stipulates you must have one job for the entirety of your career.

This is a huge gain for the DOJ, but my goodness what a loss for the 2A community that we won’t have easy access to his YouTube channel or the quick banter over email! At least, I assume he won’t be posting over YT.

Best wishes to our friend.

“He was trying to get a better angle, better focus,” said Richard Curylo, who is engaged to the injured man’s sister.

The incident occurred on Tuesday, July 21, near a boat launch at Proud Lake Recreation Area in Commerce Township, according to a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in a statement to PEOPLE.

The incident involved a 41-year-old man and was handled by local 911, per the spokesperson.

While speaking to local outlet WXYZ, Richard Curylo, who is engaged to the injured man’s sister, said he and his group had been swimming when they noticed movement in some nearby grass.

“We saw and heard the rattle and it was his first time seeing one, so he wanted to get a really good picture,” Curylo said while speaking to the outlet.

Curylo said he recorded video of the Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake before his fiancée’s brother then moved in even closer to capture a photo.

The Eastern Massasauga is the only venomous snake native to Michigan, and only one of two rattlesnake species native to the Great Lakes region, according to Michigan State University.

The family called 911, and the man was transported by ambulance to the University of Michigan, which was the nearest hospital equipped with antivenom, per WXYZ.

Don’t be stupid. A cat has quicker reflexes than a snake and will rarely lose to a snake. You aren’t a cat.

On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously ruled that warrantless searches of land marked as private violate that state’s constitution. The seven justices agreed that the “open fields” doctrine, a sweeping exception to the Fourth Amendment that the U.S. Supreme Court first announced in 1924, does not apply to the Pennsylvania Constitution’s privacy protections.

“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed that private land is not public property,” says Joshua Windham, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, which represented two hunting clubs that objected to warrantless surveillance of their land by the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC). “It’s yours, and that means you get to decide who enters it.”

The Punxsutawney Hunting Club and the Pitch Pine Hunting Club own land in Clearfield County: 4,400 acres and 1,100 acres, respectively. The properties include houses where members can stay overnight or longer. Although both clubs value their members’ privacy and have marked their land with signs, fences, purple paint, and locked entrance gates, PGC officers have never treated those indicators as legally significant.

Since 2013, Warden Mark Gritzer and other PGC officers “have entered the Hunting Clubs’ land without consent, a warrant, or probable cause at least 15 to 22 times to look for evidence of hunting offenses,” Justice Kevin Brobson notes in Punxsutawney Hunting Clubv. Pennsylvania Game Commission. “Warden Gritzer even placed a trail camera on Punxsutawney’s property in an attempt to develop probable cause for charges of illegal elk feeding. That camera remained on Punxsutawney’s property for 78 days.”

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court got it right because … you know … that’s what the constitution obviously stipulates.

Anthony Pollio, 33, was hiking in Montana’s Glacier National Park on May 3 when he “surprised an adult male grizzly bear on the Mt. Brown Lookout trail,” according to an interagency report on the first deadly bear attack at the park in nearly 30 years.

“Darkness and deadfall on the trail would have prevented the bear and Mr. Pollio from seeing each other until they were very close,” the report stated, saying the protective grizzly launched an “intense” attack.

Pollio, of Davie, Florida, “fully discharged” his bear spray — but plunged 93 feet downslope “probably while the bear continued its attack,” the July 20 report stated.

Pollio managed to climb 18 feet back up the slope as the bear briefly halted its attack — before it “reengaged and killed Mr. Pollio,” the report stated.

There are several lessons here. (1) Glacier National Park. (2) Bear spray was “fully discharged.” (3) The bear reengaged. Let’s cover that again. He didn’t give it up. He didn’t run away. He didn’t stop. He reengaged and killed the man.

In other news from Montana, “animal advocates ask the state to demand hunters and hikers carry bear spray.

On Tuesday a coalition of grizzly bear advocates filed a petition with the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission to require hunters and trappers to carry bear spray in the state. They argue that it will keep sportsmen safer and reduce grizzly bear mortality.

Local outlets are reporting 19 Montana groups and 46 individuals have backed the petition for “public safety.” The full text and the petitioning organizations and individuals have not yet been made available to the public …

Whatever. It’s just added weight. Carry a large bore firearm like a .44 magnum, .454 Casull or .45 SMC or Super.

It seems strange that this split would come from the third circuit. But here it is.

It’s a long-winded read and I haven’t gone through it all, but my first glance makes me happy that there is a circuit split, but disappointed that the militia angle was downplayed so much.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CMMG, INC. statement regarding law enforcement sales to restricted states with LE exemptions.

Our country’s founders made a bold stance 250 years ago, a position of opposition to the overbearing restrictions placed onto them. They put their lives, their reputations, their possessions and their futures on the line. The Rights so boldly listed in that Declaration were listed and penned specifically to announce our freedoms and liberties. Over time, those words seem to have faded and our liberties have eroded slowly.

At this time, CMMG would like to renew our statement on sales of products to states that restrict the freedom of it’s citizens. Simply put: CMMG will only fulfill state and local government agencies and officers to the same configurations as they restrict to their own citizens. We do not have 2 classes of citizens in the country; we are ALL subject to the constitution. CMMG will fulfill orders in restricted areas if the Chief of Police or Sheriff of that respective department makes a public and written statement refusing to enforce those unconstitutional restrictions on the citizens in that jurisdiction. This includes firearms, parts, magazines and suppressors. If a state cannot trust us with equipment, we cannot and will not trust them.

They do make it clear in the comments that this doesn’t include fully automatic firearms. They have to maintain their FFL in order to be a company that does what they do.

But if the other large manufacturers would follow suit this become something special.

Oregon voters have moved one step closer this week to potentially banning hunting, fishing and animal agriculture.

On Thursday, activists submitted a final batch of signatures to state officials for a ballot measure that would effectively criminalize such practices.

The proposal, known as the People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions (PEACE) Act, has not officially qualified for the ballot yet. State officials have until August to decide whether it goes to a popular vote in November elections.

The measure, Initiative Petition 28, would remove hunting, fishing and livestock husbandry exceptions from the state’s animal abuse law.

“We want to see the state of Oregon stop killing animals,” David Michelson, who is spearheading the campaign, told KGW of the effort, his third attempt to get such rules on the ballot.

Lol. This not only effects hunting and fishing, this would put an end to cattle ranching or farmers harvesting chickens for meat.

Make no mistake about it. This is about worshiping the creation rather than the creator.

I suppose there is a little bit of good news. “Twenty-two states recognize the right to hunt and fish in their constitution, according to the National Rifle Association, while 11 states have bans on Sunday hunting.”

Whether the Second and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles … Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 25-566 is granted as to the question presented by the petition in No. 25-238.

The supreme court order is found here.

I have long advocated that the supreme court take up an AR ban case and decide this issue once and for all. Delaying this has done nothing good for either citizens or jurisprudence.

However, there is no reason to necessarily conclude the supreme court will decide this issue in the affirmative, especially with Barrett and Roberts having to be persuaded. But what it will do is stop this incessant whining in state legislatures over the issue. Either the supreme court judges in the affirmative and the issue of decided, or they don’t and states pick off God-granted rights one by one and citizens have to decide whether to fight the political battle (rather than reflexively lean on that tired platitude that “we aren’t voting our way out of this”), or decide to be ready when the SWAT teams come to the front door in the middle of the night.

This will be an extremely clarifying moment in American history.

The attorneys arguing the case are Cooper and kirk.  They did the Peterson 5^th circuit NFA case and a bunch of others, including Vanderstok, which lost. I don’t know much about them beyond that.

But I do know that if they argue the ridiculous trope about ARs being just some other firearm with extra cosmetic features and that those cosmetic features don’t really have any effect on the use of the weapon, they will lose. It’s not about that. It was never about cosmetic features. It’s about effective firearms for the amelioration of tyranny. “Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of Americans. The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.” – Tench Coxe, an American political economist and delegate to the Continental Congress, best known for his passionate defense of the right to bear arms. In a 1788 article published in the Pennsylvania Gazette under the pseudonym “A Pennsylvanian.”

This notion of military style weapons is and always has been a misdirect and a bald and stupid emotional appeal. There is no such thing as a non-military style weapon. Every weapon was at one time a military style weapon, from rocks to spears and then to knives and swords and then on to bows and then to muskets, bolt action rifles, and semiautomatic and fully automatic rifles.

The U.S. Marine Corps used Benelli shotguns for room clearing in Now Zad, Afghanistan, and I can prove it.

Door gunners used revolvers in Vietnam, and I can prove it.

MACV-SOG used revolvers and Marlin .444 lever action rifles in Laos, and I can prove it.

And bolt action rifles are still in use today with snipers. Make no mistake about this issue. It’s about disarming the public, not “military style weapons.”

And it’s about far more than just all of the above. A high-powered optic will convert a bolt action deer rifle into a sniper rifle if certain gun controller states get their way.

And I want to be able to carry an Ohio Ordnance HCAR, full auto, 30-06, anywhere I want to go. We all have our "wants."

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) June 25, 2026

In this decision, they held that:

Hawaii’s law prohibiting licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the public without the property owner’s express authorization violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.

Reversed and remanded, 6-3, in an opinion by Samuel Alito on Jun 25, 2026. Justice Barrett wrote a concurring opinion, which Justices Thomas and Gorsuch joined as to Part II-B. Justice Kagan wrote a dissenting opinion. Justice Jackson wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justice Sotomayor.

A federal appeals court’s Thursday ruling could force the Supreme Court to decide if suppressors and magazines fall under the definition of “arms.”

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday in Comeaux v. United States that suppressors fall under the category of “arms” and are protected under the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment Foundation noted the “circuit split,” when two appellate circuits disagree on similar cases, in a series of posts on X, while SAF Director of Legal Research and Education Konstadinos Moros specifically mentioned the Ninth Circuit case Duncan v. Bonta.

“There is now a circuit split on whether suppressors are arms,” Moros posted. “This is of critical importance to those of us in states that totally ban them. While everyone else is arguing about whether registration is constitutional, we can’t even register them under the NFA if we wanted to!”

So what? The cowardly SCOTUS will ignore the circuit split just like they’ve ignored trampling 2A rights by failing to grant certiorari to AR ban cases.

Reminder: I still favor a complete 1-for-1 swap between the Fifth Circuit and the supreme court.