After the NFA’s tax stamp cost officially dropped to $0 for suppressors on Jan. 1, 2026, firearm enthusiasts overwhelmed the ATF’s eForm system with hundreds of thousands of applications. As 2026 shapes up to be the “Year Of The Suppressor,” firearm manufacturers are racing their new designs to market, and one of the most affordable options out of the gate is Lyman Products’ Sonicore line of suppressors. Sonicore is a European design, and Lyman is bringing the concept to U.S. shores, building and selling a complete line of suppressors with MSRPs that have to be seen to be believed. Here’s…

FN America made headlines in October 2025 when it announced that commercial SCAR rifles would be discontinued for the U.S. market. Fortunately for fans of the platform, the company used the word “legacy” in its press release when referring to the discontinued SCARs. That’s because the company is kicking off 2026 with a re-launch of the U.S. civilian SCAR platform in its “next generation” format. After announcing in October 2025 that its civilian “legacy” SCAR rifles would be discontinued, FN America is launching an updated “second generation” SCAR lineup. The “next gen” of FN SCAR rifles is more than merely…

In recent years, we’ve seen more outdoor adventurers choosing to use polymer-frame, semi-automatic pistols chambered in 10 mm Auto as trail guns in place of big-bore revolvers. As this transition has been taking place, we’ve also seen a few long gun manufacturers choose to offer folding and takedown carbines chambered in 10 mm that feed from pistol magazines. These include models like the Smith & Wesson M&P FPC and TNW Firearms’ Aero Survival Rifle (ASR). This version of the SUB2000 GEN3 is about a pound and a half heavier than other models in the series. For 2025, KelTec has gotten…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. On this special one thousandth episode of the show, I’m joined by Randy Neuberg to discuss the future of hunting, wildlife and wild places and how all of this might impact our way of life in the months and years to come. All right, welcome back…

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We lived in Mongolia in the early 1990s, for a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, during a time when the system had officially ended but its habits had not yet loosened their grip on daily life. I was in my early thirties, married, with two young daughters, trying to build a life far from anything familiar. We were not passing through, and we were not insulated expatriates. We were attempting to function inside the local economy, under local conditions, with consequences that were immediate and personal. At the time, I did not think of what we…

On January 15, 1907, the first 3-element vacuum tube was patented by American inventor Lee DeForest. — This is the anniversary of the 2009 “Miracle On The Hudson” engines-out emergency water landing. — Today is the birthday of Dr. Edward Teller who co-invented the H-bomb and worked on the Manhattan Project. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course (a $1,095 value), A Peak…

For as long as I’ve been around, would-be suppressor owners faced two barriers to entry: the process and the tax stamp. The process for legally purchasing a gun muffler was long and complicated, but the $200 tax stamp was, for many, the straw that broke the camel’s back. It was bad enough to drop $1000 on a suppressor and then wait a year to take it home-adding a $200 tax forced many to reconsider the endeavor entirely.A lot has changed in the last few years. The ATF streamlined their approval process to make it quicker and more efficient, slashing wait…

A lone mallard kited above us during a late-season duck hunt. It made a hard turn to the right and then flew directly at our blind. I was a guest at a friend’s duck club, a place I had hunted many times before, and knew it was my job to dispatch the bird. The other hunters razzed me before I stood to shoot and promptly missed the greenhead with three errant shots. It was exactly what my buddies had been hoping for as they continued poking fun at my poor aim until a second greenhead cupped in later in the…