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| NFA tax stamp | $0 |
| Permitless carry | 29 states |
| Suppressors legal | 42 states |
50+ NFA, carry and gun-law terms in plain English, updated for 2026.
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30 gun, ammo and optics terms, from Guns & Gadgets Daily.
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Henry Repeating Arms‘ “Guns for Great Causes” program is issuing a “call to arms” to put an end to childhood cancer for good in honor of two-year-old Ethan Shaw–and if you’d like to join Ethan’s Army, all you need to do is open your heart and your gun case to a limited edition Henry “Ethan’s…
It didn’t exactly take Nostradamus to predict this would happen…but what comes next? Last month, we drew an article from our “no duh” files about how the FBI’s NICS checks for the month of May 2020 had shattered all previous records…and predicted that June would be the same, only much more so. There’s really nothing…
Ima is a gun-grabbing guest contributor to Freedom’s Lodge, and a friend of our regular columnist Trace Munson. She occasionally gives us insight from the anti-gun side of the aisle, in an effort to help bring us all together (and maybe have a laugh or two). It’s recently come to my attention that there are…
Say hello to “The Tactical Rabbi”…unless you’re a would-be synagogue shooter. (Then say “oops.”) Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) seems to be among the few political advocacy groups that remembers the awful lessons of the 20th century: The way you’ll know you’re about to need your guns more than ever before is…
Isn’t it weird how the city council doesn’t have to worry about self-defense, but you do? What happens when you want to disband the police, but have no plan at all to replace them? Well, in Minneapolis what’s happening is that the city council is spending thousands of dollars in private security for three council…
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has a sunny prediction: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms‘ (CCRKBA) Alan Gottlieb has a prediction: COVID-19, and the civil unrest and riots following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, has created millions of new gun…
Update, August 20, 2026: the federal rule that grew out of this era of “ghost gun” litigation has now been partly undone. On August 17, 2026 a federal judge held the ATF’s 2022 Frame or Receiver Rule unconstitutional — though only as applied to specific plaintiffs and products. Read the 2026 ruling. The anti-gunners are…
As many concealed carriers have discovered to their disappointment (or worse), sometimes the last people to find out how the gun laws in their state are meant to be enforced are the police charged with enforcing those gun laws. Recently, a Florida appellate court spelled it out on behalf of their state’s armed citizens, stating…
About six weeks ago, we asked you to listen for the dog that yelps the loudest about guns at protests. My grandmother used to say, “Throw a rock into a pack of dogs; the one that yelps the loudest is the one you hit,” and right now we’re hearing some very informative yelps. The rock,…
A few days ago, pro-2A people were deeply disappointed when the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a number of Second Amendment-related cases, believing that victory was assured with a Court that leans “conservative” by a narrow margin. Although many Second Amendment activists see this as a missed opportunity, and it may well have…
No, this isn’t a repeat of the story of the toy gun on Zoom that triggered a police investigation… Not even three weeks ago, the gun-owning public was shocked, angered, and a little amused by the story of a seven-year-old boy, the toy gun that was visible on a Zoom call with his school, and…
Editor’s note, 22 September 2026: this article was published on 2020-06-14 and describes an offer or giveaway that ran then. It has ended — check current pricing and availability with the retailer before acting on anything below. BOOM: The unthinkable has happened, and you have been forced to shoot an attacker. There’s a lot of…
