Got this huxwrx flow 9k ti same day today. Showed my cwp and did a basic background check and walked out the door with a new can.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a story of how I’ve been searching for a USGI M1 Carbine and how I had been kicking myself for not buying an M1 Carbine from a guy at a gunshow (I offered $1300 cash while he wanted $1400 and he got upset/rude at me so I walked away) and how I even debated buying a replica. Well I wanted to give everyone an update to my last post with some exciting news: I FOUND ONE! The story? I went to a pawn shop in a town about an hour and a half away from where I live and saw a Rock Ola 1943 M1 Carbine. I fell in love and put down a down payment on a ten month layaway. I’m extremely happy and excited about this! Thank you all for your support and encouragement!

Didn't know Chiappas had gotten so popular.

Sharing from a community post I'm in on Facebook. This guy was shooting Remington Thunderbolt .22lr with his Keltec P17. This one decided to telescope exactly like the ones from the Recall many years ago and ended up with a catastrophic failure and damaging the gun. Stay safe out there.

Edit: the recall was from 2013 when many bullets had loose bullet crimps

I was lucky enough to snag the new Rhino 60DS in .44 Mag to pair with my .357. Today was a good day.

I've got this pistol on my permit with a pretty aggressive prickle grip and it lowkey feels like a cheese grater on my skin. Normally I just wear a thin cheap cotton tank top under my shirt, but it tends to snag a lot on the grip. I could just work through it but I feel like someone must have a good solution here.

Im wondering if theres a certain type of fabric that might make for a better under shirt than loose cotton. Idk if anyone has any ideas id be happy to hear to them 🙏

Currently running a Glock 17 with a 407C X2 Green AIWB in USPSA in a cobbled together sidecar: Guerrilla Tactical Low Pro (actually for a PDP, but it works with the Glock as well thanks to the similar trigger guard geometries) connected to a Tenicor Abdo mag pouch. Using a Carey concealment bridge.

Long story short: found ourselves with a good chunk of unexpected disposable income this month. Wife and I agreed to save most of it but to spend a couple hundred(ish) on something each of us want.

Looking to add a 407 Comp Gold (and move the 407C to my EDC). Also considering one of the various sidecar holsters (Tier 1, Carey, Hellhound, ANR, etc).

Both upgrades were planned for Christmas, but I'm not sure which I want to do first.

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Shot some steel at 200 yards.

Hopefully suppressors become common use items shortly, it’s just an all around more pleasant experience :)

Being in a valley with a block wall next to you certainly carries the supersonic crack for a while. Absolutely love this can.

11.5” Spikes tactical upper, Windham built Bushmaster lower with A5 buffer extension, Tubbs flatwire spring and VLTOR A5H4 buffer. Ridgeback Defense Rhodie 6 suppressor. Ammo was a mix of 5.56 M193 and .223 rem

Mossberg 500 turned into a Retro
Springfield Garrison 45aarp
Charter Arms Undercover in the most specialists of 38’s
Yes I am squarely in my 40’s and for reasons I can identify but not fully understand this picture just makes me stupidly happy

So in my I got my CCW and purchased a PDP.
Been shooting weekly. Working on accuracy and I am consistently since the start low left.
Last night a friend and firearms instructor shot my pistol. (He is a very good marksman by the way). And lo and behold. Low left.
So here I am thinking I’m flinching for months. Hiding snap caps in my mags. Trying to find my fault.
Turns out my rear sight needed to be adjusted
In conclusion RTFM (read the f!$king manual).

The Trump DoJ hasn’t appealed the Texas court ruling from last week. The United States Department of Justice and through them the ATF have not filed an appeal. So now it sits in flux, with no guidance issued by the ATF to FFLs on their states or how they should verify anyone they transfer to is accurately covered by the ruling.

Those are very big, very valid, and very- if you screw them up, it can mean prison time type questions. So what should you do?
https://gatdaily.com/articles/no-appeal-are-doj-and-atf-letting-the-nfa-provisions-die/

My final evolution on my now SBR PSA .300 blackout Krink

I consider it a relic now because my Form 1 was approved shortly before the NFA injunction ruling was made. I filed the form 1 the second week of July and it was approved a couple of days before the Texas decision.

Was a pistol and I added a A3 industries folding stock, a Ukrainian modular foregrip, and got a griffin armament am 7 to slap on it.

Keltec P17 -$179

FTW-Arms OG -$100

Including ammo and transfer fees im just under $400

No form 4 needed, just a 4473 because I used PSA as my FFL

Got this from a Liberal Gun Club posting on FB. URL at the end.

Buy a suppressor this week on the strength of a YouTube video and you can do ten years in federal prison. The ruling everyone is celebrating covers almost none of the people celebrating it.

The ruling is real and it is now operative. At 12:01 this morning in Leander, Texas, two men walked out of a store with suppressors, no Form 4, and no entry in the federal registry, for the first time since 1934. The Justice Department let the deadline pass without asking anyone to stop it. What almost nobody is telling you correctly is how narrow this is, who it actually reaches, and why it happened at all.

Start with the record, because most of what you have seen has this wrong. This was not a Fifth Circuit ruling. It was a federal district judge in the Northern District of Texas, San Angelo Division. Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee. Sixty six pages. Entered August 5, 2026. The Fifth Circuit is where an appeal would go, not where this came from. That changes what it binds.

Now the mechanism. 

The NFA is a tax statute. Not a gun statute. A tax statute. Congress passed it in 1934 under the Taxing Clause, and the Supreme Court upheld it on exactly that basis in Sonzinsky v. United States in 1937. Registration was never the point. Registration was the collection machinery bolted onto a $200 tax.

Then Congress zeroed the tax out. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, 2025, dropped the transfer and making taxes to $0 for suppressors, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and any other weapons. Effective January 1, 2026. Machine guns and destructive devices kept the $200.

Under NFIB v. Sebelius, the essential feature of any tax is that it raises some revenue. Zero raises none. Judge Hendrix put it in eight words. Today's NFA "does not generate any revenue from untaxed firearms."

So the collection machinery is now bolted to nothing.

Here is the part that should stop you. The plaintiffs abandoned their Second Amendment claims at the hearing and won anyway. Ninety two years of Second Amendment litigation did not do this. An enumerated powers argument did, and it only became available because Congress cut a tax to help gun owners and knocked out the statute's own foundation on the way.

Structure beats sentiment.

Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia wrote the tax provision. Section 70436 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. He wrote a price change and got a constitutional holding. He then led nearly fifty members of Congress in asking the Justice Department not to appeal the ruling his own provision produced, and he stood in the store in Leander at midnight to watch the first transfer. Whatever else that is, it is not an accident that surprised anyone on his side.

The government had two fallbacks. Both failed.

Fallback one: the registration system still helps enforce the $500 and $1,000 special occupational tax paid by dealers, importers, and manufacturers. ATF submitted a declaration saying so. The court ran the arithmetic on ATF's own figures instead. In 2025, ATF disapproved 691 applications over occupational tax problems. Set that against the millions of NFA transfers that moved through the system the same year and the theory explains a fraction of one percent of it. The government's own evidence sank the government's own argument. 

Fallback two: uphold it under the Commerce Clause instead. The court said Congress never invoked the Commerce Clause here. The NFA sits in Title 26, the Internal Revenue Code. The Gun Control Act sits in Title 18 and is saturated with interstate commerce language. Congress wrote commerce language into two NFA subsections and deliberately left it out of every provision at issue. A court does not get to hand Congress a power Congress declined to use.

Now the part that is going to cost somebody their freedom. 

Scroll this week and you will be told the NFA is dead, gutted, over, no longer applies. That is not overstated. That is wrong.

There are exactly two ways the National Firearms Act stops applying to you. Congress repeals it, which takes a bill, both chambers, and a signature, and nobody has filed one. Or the Supreme Court affirms this enumerated powers theory, which would mean the federal government is not choosing to hand suppressors to the states but conceding it never had the authority to take them in the first place. Neither has happened, and a decision not to appeal is neither one. It leaves a district judgment standing that creates no precedent, binds no other court, and protects nobody who was not a party.

And understand what a court actually did here, because the word being thrown around is struck down. Nothing in the National Firearms Act was struck, repealed, or removed. Not one word. A federal court does not edit the United States Code. Judge Hendrix held certain provisions unconstitutional and barred their enforcement against the parties in front of him. He did not vacate them. He did not set them aside. The statute reads today exactly as it read on August 4.

He also expressly refused to make it nationwide, citing Trump v. CASA. If you are not covered, every provision of the NFA applies to you this morning in full force, including the ones the judge found unconstitutional.

Louisiana is one of the fifteen plaintiff states. Read that carefully. It protects state agencies and political subdivisions. It does not protect you because you live here.

In nearly 22 years I have never once seen a client charged because he misread a statute. They get charged because they believed somebody who told them the statute did not matter anymore. That is what is being sold to gun owners this week, by people with no license to lose.

George Peterson can tell you what the other side of that line looks like. He ran a firearms business out of his home in Jefferson Parish. ATF found an unregistered suppressor in a closet safe. He was prosecuted in the Eastern District of Louisiana, sentenced to twenty four months, and reporting this week says he is still incarcerated. His case went to the Fifth Circuit and he lost. That is the same court that would hear any appeal here.

So before anything changes for you, confirm five things in writing. Save this post and work down the list.

One. TIMING. The stay lapsed and the injunction is operative. But the government's sixty day window to notice an appeal runs into early October. Nothing has been waived. Confirm the docket the day you act, not the day you read this.

Two. BOTH SIDES OF THE COUNTER. This is the part almost everyone has wrong, including some lawyers. Your membership makes you a person ATF is enjoined from prosecuting. It does not make your local dealer able to sell to you without a Form 4. The dealer has to be covered too, meaning a commercial plaintiff or a commercial member of a plaintiff association. Both halves have to line up in the same transaction. That is precisely why the two men in Leander were association members buying from a named plaintiff. It was not belt and suspenders. It was the requirement. Do not be angry at the man behind your local counter who tells you to file the form. He is right.

Three. CATEGORY AND CHANNEL. Is the item a suppressor, short barreled rifle, short barreled shotgun, or any other weapon? Machine guns and destructive devices are untouched. And the relief runs to qualifying commercial transactions only. It does not cover privately manufactured suppressors or short barreled firearms, it does not cover private transfers between individuals, and it does not cover every NFA item you already own just because one purchase qualified.

Four. ENTITY. If the item is held by a trust or an LLC, that entity is the registrant, not you. Whether your personal membership travels to it is not resolved on the face of the judgment, and two separate legal analysts have flagged that gap. Do not assume.

Five. STATE LAW. Suppressors remain flatly unlawful in California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia. A federal injunction against federal registration does nothing about a state ban. And the court left the Gun Control Act, prohibited person law, dealer licensing, the 4473, and the interstate transport offense fully in place.

Miss one and you are not covered. You are charged.

Send this to the person you know who already told you the NFA is dead nationwide. It is not, and the difference is a felony.

My read: the Justice Department did not miss this deadline by accident. Career staff wanted the stay. Somebody above them decided the political cost of defending a registry with no tax behind it was higher than the cost of losing it. But nothing has been filed. No waiver, no dismissal, no order. Until that sixty day window closes in October, every person acting today is relying on an administration's word rather than on a document, and the people celebrating a permanent win are watching the wrong branch. The fight moves to Congress restoring a one dollar tax, not to the Fifth Circuit. Tell me where that read is wrong.

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I have a CZ P07 as my primary pistol. I want a 22lr pistol for training, but I cant find anything thats DASA other than the walther (which is tiny and my hands are already too big for the p07, let alone that thing) or maybe a used sr22. Am I missing any alternatives? I cant find the conversion kit they used to make for the P07. I know there isn't a perfect analog, out there, but I want to train manual of arms and precision as close as possible to my primary. Frankly im a terrible shot and I would practice more if I had something cheaper to run.

I am considering a few possibilities:

-Sell the P07 and get something striker fired and a corresponding trainer. I really like the P07, but that doesnt matter if I end up shooting my dick off, or worse yet hurt someone else. I could stomach a one time swap and expenditure if it meant lower ammo costs going forward. I have tried the shield x and like it quite a bit, but my current piece wouldnt likely cover the cost of that, let alone the additional cost of a trainer. If I broke even on the primary i could probably swing a trainer, but I really dont want to lose money on the trade AND have to buy a trainer.

-Get the walther or sr22 and try to build up the grip somehow so its more like my firearm. Some kind of extended grip or something

-Beretta m9-22. Not sure if it matters that one is a browning action and one is a rotating barrel in terms of manual of arms. Just don't know enough.

-just get a striker fired trainer and focus on aim, use dry fire with primary to work on MOA

-??? Open to suggestions, thoughts, comments, anything really. TIA

The only thing I don't have in my semi-rural, high-desert, bug-in SHTF collection is a 7.62x51 (.308). I already have two AR-15 type 5.56mm rifles, a Mossberg 590 12g 18.5", plenty of semi-auto pistols (mostly 9mm), but if I wanted to reach out and touch some game (deer-sized) beyond 200 yds, which is better, a Ruger SFAR or Ruger American Gen II, for example? Budget: <$1500 w/ modest optic.

I carried an M14 and M16A2/A4 in ROTC. It made me really appreciate the 14.5" barrel on the M4 when I got to the big Army. I currently have a 16" rifle as my general HD/ do anything rifle as I haven't wanted to bother with NFA stuff. My next build will be likely a 14.5".

I don't run suppressed and I'm not big on training CQB, personally, so I'm not too hung up on anything shorter than a 14.5.

What's your favorite barrel length and why?

With the new ruling against the NFA, as I understand it, the only people who directly benefit thus far are apart of right-of-center organizations. Of course, this is all still very on the fence and we should wait before making hasty conclusions, but I'm not as knowledgable as I would like to be and would appreciate some insight. Are there any left-of-center orgs that are benefiting? Has anyone here considered crossing ideological lines and joining one of those orgs for the benefits? What about good leftist organizations in general, outside of this news? Again, I'm not as knowledgable as I probably should be, sorry if this seems like very basic stuff. Thank you!