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With the announcement last week, as near as I can tell, BATF and DOJ will no longer enforce the National Firearms Act of 1934 requirements to register and tax stamp Short Barreled Rifles, Short Barreled Shotguns, Any Other Weapon (AOW) and suppressors. Yet can you now build or possess those…

Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse advises heightened situational awareness on Tuesday, October 6, and Wednesday, October 7, 2026, especially for travelers. He argues the recent RAF Fairford base incident was likely a rehearsal timed to France’s “National Day of Action” and the October 7 anniversary of the Hamas attack on…

Clinton, IL (DCSC News Service) – Exelon officials are pleading for calm as a General Emergency — the highest alert a nuclear plant can issue — consumes the Clinton Nuclear Power Station and begins to spill into the countryside around it. Local law enforcement is no longer asking for patience.…

Gasoline is the quiet part of preparedness that people skip until the pumps go dark and every station is either dead without power or has a handwritten “NO GAS” sign taped to the glass. Food and water keep you alive. Liquid gold keeps you mobile, the freezer cold, the basement…

Guns Save Life had a busy September. The site logged 281,200 views and 262,700 visitors — up 390% and 411% from the month before. A couple of days cleared 40,000 views. A surprising share of that traffic is coming from China. Make of that what you will. The dashboard shows…

Evil does not file a FOID application. It does not sit through a 16-hour class. It shows up before dawn, and it leaves a 20-year-old woman full of bullets and a 2-year-old boy dead in a burning car. That is what Peoria County woke up to on Friday, September 25.…

At Guns Save Life, we educate and empower people. We ask them to consider the things most people refuse to think about. Denial is easier. It costs nothing today. It also leaves practitioners empty-handed when the problem arrives. Preparation is more than buying a gun to answer a potential threat.…

In “Let’s Talk About the 2027 NRA Elections,” Todd Vandermyde of the Freedom’s Steel channel asks eligible NRA members to sign petition slates by October 13 so he, Dennis Fusaro, and Judge Phil Journey can appear on the 2027 board ballot after the nominating committee passed them over. https://youtu.be/RDy-lri6i0w Vandermyde,…

Sangamon County GSL is back at SCHEELS on October 5 Ignore the meeting box in the October GunNews. The Air Combat Museum listing for October, November, and December was a typo. That venue was September only, after SCHEELS closed early for Labor Day. Sangamon County Guns Save Life is back…

Pretending evil does not exist has no survival value. Neither does the shuffle through life on “I’ll figure it out” and “I’ll make do.” That is a refugee’s mindset. The people who stay housed, fed, and together when the lights die or the door gets kicked are the ones who…