Ammoland Shooting Sports News

12/04/2025

“American AK experiment is dead,” and judging from early reactions, he might as well have dropped a frag gr***de in the middle of every gun forum in the country. Read the full story:

Is the American AK rifle experiment truly dead, or is it simply shifting into a niche role while the AR rifle dominates the mainstream?

12/04/2025

Buried in the Federal Register notice is the big one: the agency plans to remove the Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) notification requirement for NFA registration. Read the full Story:

Buried in the Federal Register notice is the big one: the agency plans to remove the Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) notification requirement for NFA registration.

12/03/2025

More than 21 million citizens are licensed to carry and many states have reciprocity agreements, enabling armed residents from one state carry in other states on their own state’s license/permit. Read the whole story:

No doubt that when The Trace posted an article purporting to show that 150 cities were showing “one of the greatest drops in gun violence—ever,” it unintentionally destroyed one of the greatest gun control myths—ever—in the process.

12/03/2025

In an unprecedented legal move, the United States filed an unopposed motion to vacate the conviction of Juan Peterson, who had been found guilty on November 9, 2023, following a jury trial for possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device under D.C. Code § 7-2506.01(b). Read the whole story on Ammoland: https://bit.ly/4rudWDj

12/03/2025

After the fallout with New York’s lawsuit against the Association and the resignation of former Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, the NRA had to change. So-called “reform” candidates got elected to the Board of Directors in 2024, with a sweep in 2025. In 2024, pro-NRA 2.0 Doug Hamlin assumed the seat vacated by LaPierre. Read the whole story:

Under NRA 2.0 leadership the National Rifle Association has announced some major changes are coming. Read about the mission and path.

12/03/2025

The AutoKey Card is not a machine gun. does not care about your rights, they will lock you up anyways. Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2023/04/auto-key-card-case-ruling-a-travesty-of-justice/

12/03/2025

The case began when four hunters from Missouri used an A-frame ladder during a 2021 elk hunt to step from one square of Bureau of Land Management land to another at the exact corner where they touched—without setting foot on private ground. The surrounding ranch, Elk Mountain Ranch, is owned by pharmaceutical executive Fred Eshelman through Iron Bar Holdings. Read the story: https://bit.ly/4rB8DSu

12/03/2025

According to G***K, V Series pistols will begin appearing on dealer shelves and be made available for media loan in December 2025. Each V Series pistol will be marked with a “V” on both the slide and the frame. Read More: https://bit.ly/4ph827h

12/03/2025

Licenses Delayed, Rights Denied demonstrates that the time allowed to process a carry permit in six states is seven times longer than the time allowed to process voter registration. Read the story on Ammoland: https://bit.ly/4iz2ySv

12/03/2025

Congress passed President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). This reconciliation bill sought to remove suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs from the National Fi****ms Act of 1934 (NFA) list. Unfortunately for gun owners, the Senate Parliamentarian, Democrat Elizabeth MacDonough, rejected the bill, believing it was not a tax. Republicans would modify the bill to reduce the tax cost to $0, while maintaining all other requirements, such as fingerprinting, passport photos, registration, and background checks. read the whole story on Ammoland:

Trump's DOJ is hailed as the "most pro-gun DOJ ever," but its response to the GOA lawsuit paints a different picture.

12/02/2025

Everytown for Gun Safety’s legal arm sent a blunt letter to Ruger’s general counsel on November 3, urging the company to pull the RXM from the market or redesign its internal trigger system. Read the whole story on Ammoland: https://bit.ly/4rzFMya

12/02/2025

In a now-deleted social media post on Facebook, the Sheriff’s Department claimed that the arrest started as a routine traffic stop when police discovered an AR-15 in the car. When officers examined the AR-15, it was determined to be equipped with a binary trigger, leading to the man’s arrest. Read the full Story: https://bit.ly/4rufQUJ