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GEAR CHAT

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  Nick’s Dumb 6.5 Creedmoor

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  DERYA RELEASES THE RAN AND RAN

  Derya RAN and RAN-X Series Lever-Action Rifles

  Derya announced the official launch of its RAN and RAN-X lever-action series, featuring modernized designs with factory-integrated aftermarket upgrades including threaded barrels, M-LOK forends, and adjustable stocks. Available in .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, and .45 Long Colt, the series will be showcased at GunCon 2026.

  Derya has launched the RAN full-size and RAN-X compact pistol lever-action series in .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, and .45 Long Colt. The rifles feature a mono-block steel receiver, threaded suppressor-ready barrel, M-LOK compatible forend with Picatinny rail, fixed front and adjustable rear sights with optics rail, and rebounding hammer. The RAN offers wood or patented adjustable aluminum Ironwolf stock options while the RAN-X uses a 12″ barrel with Steelfang PSB Ironwolf grip system at 22.95″ overall length.

BULLET POINTS

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  SOLDIERSYSTEMS

  Roni Nano Roni Pistol-to-Carbine Conversion Kit

  Houston, TX – Roni Corporaton, the leading designer and manufacturer of the renown Micro-Roni, PDW-style pistol-to-carbine conversion kits and other fi …

  The Nano Roni is Roni’s most compact pistol-to-carbine conversion kit that installs a handgun into a chassis in seconds without tools, transforming it into a pistol-braced PDW. It includes a complete system with chassis plus accessories such as magazine holders, light mounts, Picatinny rails, charging handles, optics mounts, slings, and a belt holster. Initial compatibility covers multiple Glock models with additional Glock, SIG Sauer, Taurus, and Canik models planned; available in black, OD Green, and Flat Dark Earth.
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  THE TRUTH ABOUT GUNS

  Can You Shoot 5.56 Through a .22 Suppressor? – The Truth About Guns

  Can you shoot 5.56 through a .22 suppressor? Usually no. Here’s why pressure, heat, and gas volume matter so much.

  The article addresses whether .556/.223 ammunition can be safely fired through a standard .22LR (rimfire) suppressor. In the general case, it is not safe or recommended. Most dedicated rimfire suppressors are engineered only for the much lower pressures, smaller gas volumes, and reduced heat produced by .22LR, .22WMR, or similar rimfire cartridges.
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  NSSF

  NSSF Releases Most Recent Firearm Production Figures (ATF AFMER 2023)

  Over 32 million Modern Sporting Rifles in Circulation WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, released the Firearm Production in the United States including the Firearm Import and Export Data 2025 Edition (reporting 2023 data) to its members. The report compiles the most up-to-date information based on data sourced from the Bureau of Alcohol, […]

  According to the NSSF article dated January 15, 2026, ATF AFMER data shows 2023 U.S. domestic firearm production at 8,466,729 units, a 15.4% decrease from 2022. Total firearms made available for the U.S. market in 2023 were 13,574,653 (handguns 8,176,535; rifles 3,899,907; shotguns 1,498,211). Cumulative civilian firearms in possession 1990–2023 reached 506.1 million, with modern sporting rifles (MSRs) in circulation estimated at over 32 million.

GUN FIGHTS

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THE AGENCY BRIEF

• Agency Update

  1. AGENCY BRIEF: RUBY RIDGEWhat Ruby Ridge really was: a federal pressure campaign over a minor, technical gun charge that turned into a botched siege, unconstitutional rules of engagement, and the killing of a mother and her child.

  The setup started in 1989. The ATF wanted an informant inside Aryan Nations circles in northern Idaho. They targeted Randy Weaver, an Army veteran living off-grid with his family. Weaver had racist beliefs and associations, but constitutional limits matter most when the person in the government’s sights is unpopular.

  The ATF used an informant to cultivate Weaver and buy two shotguns. The agency claimed the barrels were cut a fraction of an inch below the 18-inch legal minimum. Whether Weaver cut them at the informant’s request or sold them as-is is heavily disputed. What is confirmed is what happened next: the ATF did not arrest him to protect the public. They used the federal firearms charge as leverage to pressure Weaver into becoming a paid snitch. Weaver refused.

  Because he refused, the ATF pushed the case to prosecutors, and Weaver was indicted in late 1990.

  Then came the bureaucratic failure. Weaver’s court-appointed attorney was sent a notice with the wrong appearance date, and Weaver missed his hearing. Instead of resolving a government paperwork error cleanly, the system escalated. The U.S. Marshals launched an 18-month surveillance operation on his remote cabin.

  In August 1992, an armed reconnaissance team of Marshals encountered Weaver’s 14-year-old son Sammy and family friend Kevin Harris in the woods. A firefight erupted. Exactly who fired first remains disputed, but the results are not: the family dog was killed, Sammy Weaver was shot and killed while running back toward the cabin, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan was killed.

  The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team was called in to take over. Instead of containment, the FBI adopted modified, unconstitutional rules of engagement. In plain English, agents were told they “could and should” shoot any armed adult male seen outside the cabin.

  FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi fired two shots. The first wounded Randy Weaver. The second shot, fired as Weaver and Harris retreated, passed through the cabin door and hit Vicki Weaver in the head while she stood in the doorway holding her 10-month-old infant. She died instantly.

  The legal aftermath demolished the government’s narrative:

  A federal jury acquitted Kevin Harris of murder on self-defense grounds.
  Randy Weaver was acquitted of all original firearms and murder charges, convicted only of failure to appear and a bail condition violation.
  A 1995 Department of Justice review found the FBI’s modified rules of engagement unconstitutional.
  The federal government paid over $3 million in civil settlements to the surviving family.
  Despite Senate hearings and state-level indictments, no federal agent ever served a day in prison for the killings.

  2. WHY IT MATTERS

  Ruby Ridge is the ultimate case study in how federal agencies use technical firearms violations to manufacture leverage, and what happens when their targets refuse to bend.

  This operation was never about public safety. It was about coercion. When Weaver wouldn’t play ball, the agency’s objective shifted from investigation to punishment, kicking off a predictable escalation ladder:

  Use a regulatory charge as a trap.
  Demand intelligence cooperation, and turn refusal into a target on the citizen’s back.
  Treat a procedural court-date mistake as a fugitive manhunt.
  Deploy paramilitary recon teams for a paperwork warrant.
  Rewrite deadly force rules on the fly to authorize a shoot-on-sight posture.
  Once federal agencies invest that much time, manpower, and ego, the institutional pressure to justify the operation takes over. They stop seeing citizens with rights, and start treating them as enemy combatants on American soil.

  3. THE 2A ANGLE

  For gun owners, Ruby Ridge is the blood-soaked warning label on every “it’s just a paperwork violation” argument.

  The underlying charge was a National Firearms Act measurement. That is the exact kind of regulatory trap Washington loves to describe as narrow, reasonable, and harmless. But in practice, technical gun laws give agencies the legal cover to ruin lives. That is the modern lesson for FFLs navigating zero-tolerance revocations, home builders facing shifting administrative definitions, and ordinary owners one bad pistol-brace ruling away from becoming a federal case file.

  Apply the Supreme Court’s Bruen standard to the government’s actions. There is zero text, history, or tradition from the founding era of a permanent federal bureaucracy measuring the barrels of defensive weapons to coerce citizens into acting as informants, and then militarizing a warrant service when the citizen refuses. The Founders would not recognize a system that turns a man into a felon over a quarter-inch of steel.

  Heller proved that the Second Amendment protects an individual right. But rights on paper mean nothing if the enforcement state can use a minor regulatory allegation to justify surveillance, coercion, and deadly force.

  The strongest takeaway from Ruby Ridge is that when the federal government wields broad, discretionary power over firearms, abuse is not a glitch. It is the natural result. When agencies can turn a fractional barrel measurement into a capital siege, the process itself becomes the punishment. Being technically compliant doesn’t protect you; it just makes you useful until you aren’t anymore.

GOING BALLISTIC

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  AMMOLAND SHOOTING SPORTS NEWS(Savage)

  NRA, FPC, SAF v. Maryland (SB 334 Glock-Style Handgun Ban)

  NRA, FPC, and SAF filed a federal lawsuit challenging Maryland’s SB 334, arguing the state’s Glock-style handgun ban violates the Second Amendment.

  The National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, and Second Amendment Foundation filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging SB 334. The law, signed by Gov. Wes Moore, prohibits manufacture, sale, purchase, receipt, or transfer of semiautomatic pistols featuring a ‘cruciform trigger bar’ (including nearly all factory Glocks and popular Glock-style models such as PSA Dagger, Ruger RXM, and many Shadow Systems pistols) effective January 1, 2027. The complaint argues the statute is an unconstitutional ban on commonly owned handguns protected under Heller and Bruen rather than a legitimate regulation of machine guns, as conversion devices are already illegal under both federal and Maryland law.
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  BEARINGARMS.COM(Savage)

  SF4067 Minnesota Semi-Automatic Firearm and High-Capacity Magazine Ban Proposal (2026 Legislative Session)

  Analysis of Minnesota’s failed anti-gun push reveals overlooked constitutional and political challenges.

  SF4067, sponsored by Sen. Zaynab Mohamed (DFL–Minneapolis), passed the Minnesota Senate 34-33 on party lines but stalled in the Republican-controlled House under Speaker Lisa Demuth and failed to receive a vote before the 2026 session adjourned. The bill sought to ban future sales of semi-automatic weapons (particularly AR-15-style rifles) and high-capacity magazines, impose felony penalties for ghost guns, reinstate a binary trigger ban, expand secure storage requirements, and allocate over $20 million for school safety and mental health. It was promoted in response to the 2025 Annunciation Catholic School shooting (AR-15 used) and 2025 shootings of legislators Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, yet the Women’s Press analysis critiqued in the article focuses on Republican resistance and alleged death threats rather than crime data or constitutional limits.
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  BEARINGARMS.COM(Savage)

  Brady Campaign Claims California Assault Weapons Ban and 10-Round Magazine Limit Saved Lives in San Diego Mosque Attack

  Debate over California gun laws’ impact on lives during San Diego mosque attack.

  In the May 2026 attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego by two teenage gunmen, three people were killed before the attackers fled and died by suicide. One perpetrator used a California-compliant Ruger Mini-14 with a 10-round magazine that jammed early; an armed security guard engaged the attackers, wounded one, and initiated a lockdown. Brady policy advisor Steve Lindley credited the state’s assault weapons features ban and magazine capacity limit with limiting lethality due to reduced ergonomics, fatigue, and reload frequency, while the article’s author and San Diego County Gun Owners PAC argue the short duration, early jam, and armed defender’s actions—not the cosmetic restrictions—determined the outcome.
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  BEARINGARMS.COM(Savage)

  Virginia State Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim Tells Prosecutors to Stop ‘Tough Guy Posturing’ on AR-15 Sales Ban

  VA’s AR-15 ban sponsor criticizes prosecutors refusing to enforce the law amid political hypocrisy claims.

  Virginia Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim (D), sponsor of legislation banning the sale of AR-15s and similar assault weapons effective July 1, 2026, responded on X to Republican commonwealth’s attorneys in multiple counties who declared they would not prosecute violations. Salim stated that individual local prosecutors cannot block the statewide ban, that their role is to prosecute rather than enforce, and warned against breaking Virginia law. The response follows Democratic legislation granting prosecutors discretion not to pursue certain cases, a policy previously used for low-level marijuana offenses.
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  AMMOLAND SHOOTING SPORTS NEWS

  New Hampshire HB 1793 Campus Carry Bill Killed After Senate Rejects Conference Committee

  New Hampshire’s HB 1793 campus carry bill is effectively dead after the Senate gutted the House-passed bill and rejected a conference committee.

  HB 1793 proposed prohibiting New Hampshire public colleges and universities from regulating the possession, carry, storage, or lawful use of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus, with no special permit required and civil remedies for violations. The bill passed the House 188-165 on February 5, 2026. The Senate passed an amended version on May 14, 2026 that largely eliminated the provisions (except for professors), leading the House to request a conference committee; the Senate rejected the request by voice vote on May 21, 2026, killing the bill. New Hampshire operates under constitutional carry, but public institutions maintained gun-free policies prior to this legislation.
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  BEARINGARMS.COM

  Examination Of Minnesota Gun Ban Failure Misses Big Problem N1232693

  Analysis of Minnesota’s failed anti-gun push reveals overlooked constitutional and political challenges.

  https://pew.report/c/FaMb7s
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  SHOOTING NEWS WEEKLY

  United States v. Patrick “Tate” Adamiak – ATF Misconduct in 20-Year Machinegun Sentence

  Anyone who misclassifies cut up barrel shrouds as machineguns shouldn’t be working for the ATF, but that’s exactly what ATF Firearms Enforcement Officer Ronald…

  Former U.S. Navy sailor and GunBroker dealer Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, with no prior criminal record, was convicted on machinegun and unregistered firearm charges and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. ATF agents and a firearms enforcement officer allegedly lied in reports, search warrant affidavits, and trial testimony by misclassifying legal gun parts, barrel shrouds, a toy, demilled RPGs, and semi-automatic items as machineguns or destructive devices. Adamiak is currently serving his fourth year; new ATF leadership has acknowledged the sentence length as excessive, with a hearing pending and public calls for his release.
• SHOOTINGNEWSWEEKLY

  Blue States Have Moved Beyond ‘Assault Weapons’ and are Now Banning Handguns, Too

  Article by Kostas Moros, Director of Legal Research and Education for the Second Amendment Foundation, states that three states have outlawed sales of GLOCKs and similar pistols. It argues anti-gun groups shifted from unpopular handgun bans to assault weapon restrictions but are now using the GLOCK switch issue to pursue handgun bans in California and other blue states. The piece criticizes federal circuit courts for ignoring Bruen and calls for Supreme Court intervention on commonly owned firearms.

REVIEWS

• Review: Anonymous Coward from New York

  7 out of 7 snapbacks. The Richardson 112 trucker hat is the greatest trucker hat ever made. I havent been able to wear a snapback since middle school. But when I popped this baby on my big fat head, not only did it fit with holes to spare, I instantly grew a mustache and was given a CB handle. Which was really weird because I already had a moustache. This one just grew on top of the first one. Like my moustache had a moustache. It tickled my nose so eventually I shaved my natural moustache and just rock the much better one endowed by the Richardson 112. Every trucker hat in the WLS/agency171 store is a Richardson 112 so there are plenty of awesome designs to choose from. Get yours today and start dodging child support tomorrow.
• Review: Peter Gesinnia from Pennsylvania

  WLS Review from Peter Gesinnia🕎 🕎 🕎 🕎
  Cool gun podcast, but the vibe is off for a few months. Minus one 🕎 because AA-Ron hasn’t been on the show. replacing with a cartoon mumble mouth raccoon falls short of minimum DEI requirement. Having guest Tom Bowers on was a nice perspective this podcast needs.

• Review: Jaqin Ta’Sox from Montana

  Review From Jaqin Ta’Sox: Best and most close knit bundle of sticks out there. Every time I hear them I feel like I should be out in wilderness with a fellow cowboy who I can’t not love. 5 of 5 poop breaks.