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Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2026-13 on June 4, 2026 at Edison Academy in Kalamazoo, re-establishing the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. The order also declared June “Gun Violence Awareness Month” in Michigan. The task force was originally created by Executive Order 2024-4. It released an initial report in April 2025 and its … Read more
The Michigan Natural Resources Commission eliminated the Limited Firearms Deer Zone on May 13, 2026 as part of Wildlife Conservation Order Amendment No. 6 of 2026. The change takes effect with the 2026 deer season. For southern Lower Peninsula hunters, this is the most significant firearm regulation change in decades. The geographic divide that separated … Read more
Since 2013, Maryland has banned the sale and possession of certain semiautomatic rifles. The AR-15, AK-47, and Barrett .50 caliber are among the firearms the state defines as assault weapons and prohibits civilians from owning. Gun rights organizations have been fighting that ban in federal court for over a decade. As of now, the ban … Read more
Every firearms accident has violated at least one of these four rules. Most violated more than one. That is not a coincidence. The rules work as a system, where any single one of them, followed, prevents a tragedy even if another fails. Colonel Jeff Cooper formalized these rules around 1976 when he founded Gunsite, the … Read more
On April 29, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and newly confirmed ATF Director Robert Cekada announced 34 firearms regulatory changes at a single press conference, the largest single regulatory release in the history of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They called it the “New Era of Reform.” The package was issued … Read more