Author: The Notorious FDE

Industry Day at the Range is always one of our favorite parts of SHOT Show in Las Vegas, and 2025 did not disappoint. It was quite the showing, with everything from red-dot revolvers and sleek suppressors to KelTec’s trippy stripper-clip-fed rotary-barrel PR57 handgun chambered in 5.7mm NATO. We haven’t seen a gun quite like that one since – well, before […]

There were plenty of long guns and pistol-caliber carbines on show for 2025. Here are the ones we thought were hot in this year’s pew-pew collection. Guns.com Provides Pictures And Words More   Did your long guns make the list?  If so which ones are you looking forward to the most, tell us in the […]

With Steve Dettelbach officially out as the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Deputy Director Marvin Richardson will return as the default head of the embattled agency. This isn’t the first time Richardson has run the Bureau, having previously been Acting Director from 2021 to 2022. And if gun owners […]

Already, Kel-Tec is making waves on the, SHOT Show 2025 floor with their new EDC pistol.  The PR57 Chambered in 5.7x28mm, it boasts an innovative top-loading design with a 20+1 round capacity, eliminating the need for traditional magazines.  If that seems weird, it’s because the stripper clip system made popular on the M1912 Styer and […]

Speculation whirled that Trump could open investigations on Fauci and others President Biden pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, and others who some speculated may have faced investigations under the incoming Trump administration on Monday. Biden’s pardons come just hours before he is set to depart the White House and President-elect Trump takes the oath of office […]

Representative Ben Cline (R-VA) has introduced the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) in the House of Representatives. The bill would remove suppressors from the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). The first suppressor, also known as a silencer, was introduced in 1892 in Switzerland by Jakob Stahel to kill cattle. Two years later, another Swiss inventor, […]

Continuing for our article posted on 1/13/25 found here  we followed this story to the end to see where this discourse ends up.  Thankfully the ATF realized their error in their last letter stating   “Federal law requires a pistol with an attached stabilizing brace or stock be registered as a short barreled rifle (SBR).” Our […]

ATF Says ALL Braced Pistols Are SBRs, In Violation Of The Law In a Dec. 20th letter to a GOA member, the ATF’s Firearms Industry Programs Branch (FIPB) took the position that any pistol with a stabilizing brace attached is considered to be an NFA item under federal law. This is concerning, as ATF is […]

As the Arctic region undergoes unprecedented changes due to climate change, the melting of the ice opens up a massive new frontier, unlocking a treasure trove of previously untapped natural resources and the potential for new trade routes and regional supremacy. And it should come as no surprise that the world’s major military and economic […]

One of the things that people have been writing into Tactical shit about is “How could this have happened?”,  in a short answer, complacency and lack of foreplanning.  As more comes to light, and CREDIBLE information becomes available relating to Shamsud-din Jabbar we are starting to get a clearer picture of his motives, and how […]