Minnesota Firearm News

At SHOT Show 2026, ZEV Technologies and Magpul unveiled one of the show’s most innovative firearms concepts: the FDP folding pistol/SBR system. Designed as a compact, deployable pistol-caliber platform, the FDP combines enhanced stability, rapid deployment, and discreet carry in a unique folding chassis.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued Secretary’s Order 3447, directing federal agencies to remove unnecessary barriers to hunting and fishing on public lands while encouraging expanded access consistent with conservation and safety goals. The order reaffirms the vital role hunters and anglers play in wildlife conservation, preserves the use of traditional lead ammunition, and signals a shift toward greater public-land access across more than 500 million federally ma

The American Civil War did more forever changed the landscape of the United States.  It altered state lines, reshaped political parties, led to mass migration, and forged the modern age of firearms.

As a gun dealer it takes a lot for something to arrive and that gets me excited.  Most of the guns that get the public excited are ho-hum to me. Things that excite me must be rare or unusual.

A divided Ninth Circuit panel has handed California gun owners a major post-Bruen victory, ruling that the state’s long-standing ban on open carry violates the Second Amendment. Siding with Siskiyou County resident Mark Baird, the court found that open carry is deeply rooted in the nation’s—and California’s—historical tradition of firearm regulation, and that the state’s modern prohibition traces not to public safety concerns but to politically and racially motivated laws lik

Hawaii has taken a startling position before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that some of the nation’s most disgraceful and openly racist historical gun laws should serve as valid precedent for modern firearm restrictions. In defending its sweeping gun-carry prohibitions in Wolford v. Lopez, the state has leaned on post–Civil War Black Codes and royal-era laws from Hawaii’s pre-statehood monarchy to justify default bans on lawful carry. The case could have national consequenc