The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) has trimmed Form 4 processing time significantly. That trend began roughly five years ago, but it has accelerated in noteworthy fashion during the recent tsunami of submissions to take possession of suppressors, short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns. In early 2021, it took somewhere around 280 days for BATFE to approve a Form 4, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Individuals applying electronically in August 2026 waited only 9 days. Old-school paper submissions took about a month. Enthusiasts submitting “trust” paperwork had longer delays, however. They were 33 and 34 days,…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Good Lord, it’s a new show. 00:00:05 Speaker 2: This week we’ve got Bryce Stubbs in the studio, a Montana kid who just won the Food Network’s 100 cooks and walked away with a nice little chunk of scratch. We got Colorado Bears are on the tears. Let’s try to make a rhyme. 00:00:23 Speaker 1: Colorado Bears are on the tears. Or are they? Giannis will tell us. 00:00:29 Speaker 2: It’s a better than ever time to get that suppressor you’ve been looking for. Trump generated something of a national eye roll by renaming Lake…

If you need proof that the competition for duck hunting honey holes can lead to toxic—and potentially lethal—behavior, here it is. On August 28, 2026, 23-year-old Carson McKoin of Monroe, Louisiana, was convicted in federal court for assaulting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents. But what’s particularly notable about the conviction is what prompted it.Instead of talking to the potential hunters, McKoin “fired a shot toward” them. It goes without saying that intentionally shooting toward other others is appalling and illegal behavior. But the boat wasn’t being driven by hunters; it was full of a team of “federal fish and…

Suppressing a firearm is the polite thing to do, for everyone from the hunting buddy sitting beside you in the field to your neighbor at the next bench on the range. Using suppressors allow us greater opportunities to exercise our right to bear arms and an armed society is…. well, we all know that quote. This is the idea behind the products and the name of Polite Society Industries, a new suppressor manufacturing company. Polite Society Industries is a new suppressor manufacturing company located in Tampa, Fla.   Polite Society Industries is starting out by launching six new suppressors. All…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Are you overwhelmed by the firehose of public land news and social media posts and crises seemingly coming at us day after day right now? Yeah, me too. There is a lot going on right now related to our national parks and wilderness areas and forests and the like. Serious change is underway. And even for me, someone whose job it is to stay up on this stuff, It is nearly impossible to keep track of it all and what’s real and what’s not and what’s actually important. The thing is, if you hunt or fish or…

Despite being early adopters of several semi-automatic rifles for military use, the French army took several decades to work out a standardized semi-automatic rifle for general service use. The rifle that finally came to being was the MAS-49, which took several design cues from the previous MAS-36 bolt-action rifle. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: I Have This Old Gun” segment above to see the MAS-49 in action on the range. “The French were also early pioneers when it came to even semi-automatic service rifles with the RSC 1917, but with the RSC and some of the other semi-autos that they…

The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today launched its first-ever national bus tour, the 2026 NRA’s Gun Bus Battleground Tour, a more than two-month, 13-state campaign to energize and turn out gun owners in key battleground states ahead of the November midterm elections. On the morning of August 27th, an NRA-branded tour bus departed NRA headquarters and will crisscross the country as the centerpiece of pro-Second Amendment events. NRA-ILA grassroots staff and volunteers will meet voters at gun stores, manufacturing facilities, college football tailgates, community festivals, and other gatherings, distributing materials and encouraging support for candidates who will defend…

The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today announced Patriot Mobile as the official wireless connectivity partner of the 2026 NRA Gun Bus Battleground Tour. The partnership will put Patriot Mobile’s brand front and center on the tour under the designation “Connected by: Patriot Mobile,” reflecting both the company’s role as the NRA’s official wireless provider and the connectivity it will supply as the Gun Bus travels the country. The NRA bus Tour is designed to take NRA-ILA’s grassroots, legislative, and political work directly to gun owners, ranges, and communities nationwide. Throughout the tour, NRA-ILA will highlight key…

Randy Brooks, former president and CEO of Barnes Bullets, passed away on Aug. 27 peacefully in his Mona, Utah, home. He and his wife, Coni, purchased the firm they built to legendary status in 1974. The company’s operations, based out of American Fork, Utah, were modest at first. The “factory” was the family home, with his wife and two daughters seating bullet cores. Sometime around 1985, Randy—who was an avid hunter—came up with what was then a radical concept for an all-copper bullet with improved terminal performance and penetration. After extensive testing and fine tuning of the manufacturing process, the…

The new VP9CC is Heckler & Koch’s second micro-size pistol, following the CC9’s debut in late 2024. Made at HK’s Oberndorf, Germany, factory, the VP9CC was intended for the European market, but was released in rather limited numbers. Its construction, dimensions and magazine capacity precisely fit the “micro-9” market niche pioneered by KelTec’s P11 in 1995, which was nearly dormant until SIG Sauer’s P365 sparked a popularity explosion in this genre of concealed-carry handgun. Chambered in 9 mm, the VP9CC is striker-fired and uses the tilting-barrel, locked-breech operating system. It ships in a high-quality soft case with a 10-round flush-fit and…