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The 2027 funding bill released by the GOP-led House Appropriations Committee ends NFA registration requirements for suppressors and short barrel rifles (SBRs). You may recall that language in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) removed registration for suppressors and SBRs early on, but that language was later removed, resulting only in the removal of the $200 tax stamp fee. House Appropriations Committee member Rep. Andrew Clyde (R) responded by showing that the tax was the basis for registration and that now, with the tax gone, the registration should be gone as well. But the registration of suppressors and SBRs has continued…

On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said that “if there are people in Iran, they’re scientists and engineers that have been working on this problem for years, the question is, how do you, ultimately, prevent them from racing toward a bomb, which this whole war that we’ve been in may provoke them to do?” King said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:10] “Well, the question is, how are they going to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon? The nuclear material that’s there — there are two pieces of this: The nuclear material that’s there,…

A bill aimed at safeguarding the United States’ sensitive military assets from adversarial nations has been introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who is arguing that foreigners from countries of concern who are caught photographing or tracking such assets should be held accountable for intending to harm the U.S. Cotton, who also recently introduced a piece of legislation to stamp out the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence on the transportation of U.S. Department of War (DOW) equipment, announced his latest bill, the Visual Protection of Strategic Assets Act, on Thursday.  Nationals from countries of concern, defined in the bill as…

Aramco has reportedly halted liquefied petroleum gas shipments next month over damage to a key facility Saudi Arabia’s petroleum and natural gas giant Aramco is suspending liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) through May due to damage at its main export facility, Bloomberg has reported, citing people familiar with the matter.The company’s key LPG export hub, the Juaymah terminal located in the Persian Gulf, suffered structural damage in February, shortly before the US-Israeli attack on Iran. At the time, the company said a support structure collapsed at the site, cutting off fuel supply and prompting a halt in overseas shipments. The facility…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to establish a platform for Americans to compare Individual Retirement Account (IRA) plans for workers without a work-sponsored plan, and an up to $1,000 annual federal matching contribution program based on income. The order fulfills Trump’s proposal from his State of the Union address in February. Under the order, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent is directed to establish TrumpIRA.gov, where Americans who do not have an employee-sponsored plan can access and compare plans available from financial institutions in the private sector, according to the White House. “TrumpIRA.gov, which will be…

The Brady Campaign, previously Handgun Control, Inc., reacted to Wednesday’s rollback of Biden-era ATF regulations by claiming it was intended to “fulfill the gun industry’s wishlist.” They also warned that the rollback will make us less safe. Brady President Kris Brown said: For the past four years, the U.S. has been experiencing historic declines in gun crime and homicides — driven by historic investments in violence prevention, evidence-based strong gun policies, and efforts to hold the gun industry accountable. In continuing to roll back or weaken those policies that have kept us safe, Trump and his administration are putting communities at…

Footage appearing to show Israeli soldiers looting homes in southern Lebanon and filming themselves “joking around” while damaging property has emerged on social media.The images come amid the fallout from the report by Haaretz last week alleging that looting by Israeli troops was widespread, with commanders turning a blind eye. The outlet cited testimonies from soldiers who described troops taking “significant amounts of civilian property,” including televisions, furniture, and motorcycles.The incidents allegedly took place during Israeli ground operations in southern Lebanon following renewed fighting with Hezbollah earlier this month.Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has said “if” these incidents occurred,…

In our society, we do not push psychopaths off the ice when nobody is looking. In our society, we let them rule the world. Reading by Tim Foley: If there were a thousand people living on an island, and one of them began making life miserable for everyone else, there would soon be 999 people living on the island. How strange, then, that a few oligarchs and empire managers get to push around an entire planet full of humans. I mean, right now we’re all sitting around hoping a few sociopaths in Washington and Tel Aviv don’t collapse the global…

The U.N.’s top nuclear energy official dismissed the possibility of using the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, as a basis for any new agreement in comments at a press conference on Wednesday. Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and a candidate to replace Antonio Guterres as the next U.N. secretary-general, addressed the press as reviews begin to assess whether signatories to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) are abiding by their responsibilities. Iran, a terrorist rogue state that has for over a decade invested in…

A Month the Bears Would Rather Forget The bears got slaughtered in April. The nattering nabobs of negativity, who had spent March sharpening their claws with considerable enthusiasm and no small amount of assistance from Wall Street and media analysts afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, discovered in April that they had been preparing for a fight the market had no intention of having. The S&P 500, oblivious to the script written for it, rose 10.4 percent, its finest monthly performance since that peculiar autumn of 2020, when stocks levitated on a cocktail of COVID vaccines, reopened retail, fiscal profligacy, and…