The officer Joplin spent years calling “Sniper 1” has a name now. Keaton Siebenaler, 36, left the Joplin Police Department last August and was sworn in this spring as a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper. He is assigned to Vernon and Barton counties. The Patrol says it knew about the 2022 shooting before it hired […]

Federal agents say the second sale arrived in a toaster pastry box. Fifty small conversion devices. Three hundred dollars. That works out to six bucks apiece for parts the law treats as machine guns the moment they exist. The buyer was an undercover ATF agent. The seller, according to a Sept. 3 criminal complaint in […]

The G36 has been the German soldier’s rifle since the late 1990s. That run is finished. First rifles reached Panzergrenadier Battalion 122 at Grafenwöhr in December 2025. Training is now spreading through the units scheduled to receive them. By the end of 2026, roughly 20,000 of the short-barrel G95KA1 should be in the force. Heckler […]

Copper does not care what you paid for 9mm last spring. It set a COMEX record of $6.8035 a pound on September 9, then cooled a few cents. That is still roughly 36 to 40 percent above the $4.54 area from mid-September 2025. Cartridge brass is about 70 percent copper. Jacketed and plated bullets wrap […]

Officers were called Saturday for a flourishing. The man who flagged them down said his neighbor had been yelling at him with a gun in her hand. He told police she said she was going to shoot him, then racked the slide on a loaded firearm. The yelling did not stop there. Court documents say […]

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, asking a St. Louis-area court to stop the government from forcing law-abiding residents to register suppressors and short-barreled rifles. The case lands in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Hanaway is joined […]

The first three drones came down late on August 25 and into the 26th. Joint Task Force–Southern Border used a vehicle-mounted Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser in the Rio Grande Valley and called the aircraft a physical threat to U.S. troops and Border Patrol. Two weeks later, officers in McAllen told CBS News the probing […]

Cook County told residents they cannot own the rifle millions of other Americans already keep at home. On September 4, 2026, Gun Owners of America and Gun Owners Foundation put that fight in front of the Supreme Court, joined by Century Arms, Canik USA, B&T USA, and Fostech. The brief is filed in Viramontes v. […]

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) put a label on the event before he put a time on the calendar. The House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement will hold a roundtable Wednesday at 2 p.m. in 2154 Rayburn titled “Suppressing the Second Amendment: Examining the DOJ’s Posture Toward Firearms Suppressors.” Livestream is on the committee site. […]

Erin Piacenti was 32, a Bank of America vice president from Chester, New Jersey, and a little more than three weeks past her second wedding anniversary when a stranger pulled two knives from a Target bag in Times Square. Police say the attack on Monday afternoon was random. It lasted about 20 seconds between the […]