The point being earlier made:
This is ‘for now’. We’ll see what happens the next time a virulenty anti RKBA administration is in power.

Comment O’ The Day:
2 things can be true. I can take @ATFDirectorRC at his word, but I can also 100% believe that there are still anti-gun elements within the ATF that are keeping their powder dry, waiting for shift change. We only need the Adamiak case as evidence.

Robert Cekada, current ATF director

UPDATE>Jensen v. ATF
FACTS> CLICKBAIT.

There’s a lot of misinformation circulating about the recent NDTX ruling in Jensen v. ATF; including a headline claiming, “ATF is Furious and We Are Planning Brutal Revenge on Gun Owners.”

The source? You guessed it: unnamed anonymous sources. It’s completely FALSE.

**More importantly – ATF respects the Court’s ruling and the rule of law. We are following the order and will not take enforcement action against protected parties inconsistent with that ruling. We are working diligently on clear guidance. Getting it RIGHT matters more than getting it out fast.

That means carefully navigating federal and state laws so that manufacturers, FFLs, and law-abiding gun owners aren’t left with legal problems – today or under a future administration.

Thank you for your patience as we focus on developing the guidance. It will be posted online as soon as we are done. The American public and the 2A community deserve facts NOT clickbait.

Well, they ain’t Santa Claus; But

A 2A Lawyer Says the ATF’s Anti-Gun Wing Is Keeping a List

The registration-free suppressor you carry out of the shop today could become a federal headache the day the political winds in Washington shift. Here’s the actual exposure — and the three things that might blunt a “revenge tour.”

Nobody selling you a suppressor right now wants to dwell on the downside. The tax stamp is gone, a Texas court has the ATF on its heels, and in a growing list of states you can walk out with a can after nothing more than a Form 4473 and a NICS check. It feels like the war is over.

In a recent video — “Lawyer Warns: ATF Is Going Full Revenge Mode?” — he relayed what he says he’s hearing in off-the-record conversations with people who have contacts inside ATF and DOJ: the ideological, anti-gun faction within those agencies is privately promising a reckoning. Not today. Later — the next time their side is back in power. And the target, he says, is precisely the paper trail being generated right now by every registration-free suppressor transfer.

He’s transparent that he’s relaying what he’s being told, not reporting a confirmed plan, and he allows that it may amount to nothing. But strip away the “revenge tour” branding and the underlying legal exposure he’s describing is real, specific, and worth understanding before you assume the fight is won.

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NSSF Guidance on NFA Transfers

On Aug. 8, 2026, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled in Silencer Shop v. ATF that most of the National Firearms Act (NFA) is unconstitutional, stating that portions of the NFA that no longer collect tax revenue as a result of cuts in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill can no longer be justified as a lawful exercise of Congress’s taxing authority. The court concluded that the registration requirements and other regulations on items like silencers (suppressors), short-barrel rifles (SBRs) and short-barrel shotguns (SBSs) that are ostensibly justified as part of the tax collection process are unconstitutional.

The court entered a permanent injunction providing relief to only the plaintiffs in the legal challenge, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to seek an emergency appeal or stay of that decision, which means that the injunction is now in effect. However, DOJ still has until Oct. 5, 2026, to appeal or seek a stay of the final judgment, and there are many unanswered questions about the implications of the injunction.

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Gun Control – Dismantled

2026 National Firearms Survey: Results from the Second Wave, Including Current Ownership of AR-15 Style Rifles, Other “Assault Weapons,” and Magazines that Hold More than 10 Rounds

Ownership is demographically diverse:
45.7% of validated gun owners are female, 25.6% do not identify as White (alone), and the gap in ownership rates between White Americans (34.6%) and Black Americans (33.0%) has narrowed to less than two percentage points.

The survey finds that 37.6% of gun owners have used a firearm to defend themselves, their property, a family member, or a member of their household, and it estimates that guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 2.2 million incidents per year.

In most defensive incidents no shot was fired (76.3%), about half (50.8%) involved more than one assailant, and in 70.6% of incidents respondents report that the defensive use was successful, such that no crime remained to be reported to the police.
8.4% of defensive incidents were directed against animal threats rather than criminal threats.
Separate from these self-defense incidents, 34.7% of gun owners reported that the mere presence of a gun has deterred criminal conduct.

A majority of gun owners (70.0%) indicate that there are some circumstances in which they carry a handgun for self-defense.
We estimate that approximately 33.6 million gun owners (39.3% of those aged 21 and over) are “public carriers” who are permitted to carry and carry at least sometimes.

The average gun owner owns about 5.2 firearms, and handguns are the most common type of firearm owned (91.6% of owners).
50.5% of gun owners – approximately 44.5 million adults – report that they currently own magazines that hold more than 10 rounds (approximately 539 million such magazines in total), and 88.0% of these owners cite a defensive purpose for owning them.

25.0% of gun owners currently own an AR-15 type rifle, 12.9% currently own other similarly styled semi-automatic rifles, and 30.0% – approximately 26.4 million adults – currently own at least one firearm in one of these two categories, with approximately 40 million AR-15 type rifles and 20 million other similarly styled rifles owned in total.

Overall, Americans own approximately 461 million firearms, consisting of approximately 208 million handguns, 154 million rifles, and 99 million shotguns.

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This Airport Will Likely Be Renamed After Dolly Parton

The Nashville International Airport will likely soon be named after Dolly Parton.

The move comes after there were over 154 thousand signatures on a Change.org petition asking for the name change before Parton’s death on Tuesday.

“Dolly Parton’s extraordinary life is forever woven into the fabric of our state,” Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) said in a statement on Friday.

“From her rural mountain home in East Tennessee to global stages, Dolly carried the Volunteer Spirit with her. At a place where Tennessee welcomes the world, it is fitting that Nashville International Airport would bear the name of our state’s favorite daughter and greet travelers with the enduring legacy of Dolly’s music, generosity, faith, and kindness,” he continued.

The renaming discussion will be brought up at the Metro Nashville Airport Authority’s September 17 meeting.

BLUF
There are far too many conservative politicians and commentators who lack spines. They are afraid to stand tall, and they will retreat even before being criticized.

Why Conservatives on this Side of the Atlantic Lose.

I am an expat U.S. citizen writing to you from Ireland. I doubt it will surprise you that here, in Ireland, and across the nearby islands of the East Atlantic archipelago (a/k/a the British Isles), there are few conservative newspapers, podcasters, and other pundits. Amongst the handful of conservative commentators is nothing like a spirit of cooperation. The larger number of them are prima donnas who will bad mouth other conservatives for no apparent reason at all. And for the crumbs of popularity and social media engagement, they are all too willing to engage in random anti-Americanism and TDS-driven commentary.

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Cuccinelli to Argue Militia Clause Protects AR-15s in Supreme Court Brief

“Former Virginia AG [and former Acting Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security] Ken Cuccinelli is drafting an amicus brief for a coalition of groups and key individuals in the Viramontes semi-automatic gun ban case that is coming in front of the United States Supreme Court,” Second Amendment advocate and NRA “reform director” Dennis Fusaro informed a close circle of fellow activists by email Saturday.

Fusaro, probably most known to AmmoLand readers through his involvement in attempting to persuade an unheeding Association to commit needed resources to a “get out the vote” effort in Virginia’s 2025 election, is soliciting funds to finance the legal work.

Cuccinelli’s novel approach was documented in his challenge to Virginia’s semi-auto/magazine ban  asking for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief because  the “ban provisions of the Act  violate the militia clause of Article I, Section 13 of the Constitution of Virginia.” (While acknowledging that Plaintiffs will suffer “irreparable harm if the Ban becomes effective and is later determined to be unconstitutional,” Spotsylvania Circuit Court Judge William E. Glover subsequently allowed the ban to stand, citing “the potential of harm to the Commonwealth.”

“The Supreme Court’s decision to hear Viramontes v. Cook County, No. 25-238 (7th Circuit), consolidated with Grant v. Higgins (2nd Circuit), presents an opportunity to do more than win the immediate fight over AR-15-platform rifles,” Cuccinelli argues, recapping proposed language discussed in an Aug. 9 Zoom meeting.

“The Court has never squarely explained how the Second Amendment’s Militia Clause informs the meaning of the operative right ‘to keep and bear Arms.’ United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939), plainly connected the Amendment to the militia and to the constitutional importance of arms having a relationship to militia purposes.”

That’s a point some of us have been trying to urge the gun groups filing 2A cases to include.

“Ignoring Core Purpose Makes 2nd Amendment More Vulnerable to Infringements: The Militia Aspect,” Part 1 and Part 2, I wrote for Firearms News in 2020. Forgetting the fighting tyranny part serves no one’s interests but would-be tyrants.

“That is the focus I would bring to an amicus brief: establishing a constitutional principle that not only prevents ‘military’ characteristics from becoming a constitutional liability, but makes them an affirmative basis for protection,” Cuccinelli asserts. “The more effective an arm is for the purposes for which a militia would require arms, the harder it should be to argue that its effectiveness somehow removes it from constitutional protection.”

Establishing this with SCOTUS “could therefore reach substantially further than the particular rifles before the Court,” he adds.

Fusaro is urging gun owners who realize the value of what this means to join and support this effort with contributions sent to RightsWatch.org.

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State.
–Alexander Hamilton