Merry Christmas to one and all from all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association. Our best gift is the friendship and support given by each of you throughout the year.

Rapid mass murder (RMM) at schools, churches, and workplaces is relatively new, occurring in the past and present century. The tracking history of RMM by active killers, however, reveals it is a growing problem in churches and schools. Is your congregation ready for such a scenario? If not, you need to read this.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Dec. 22 announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Washington, D.C.’s, Metropolitan Police Department, alleging that the city’s ban on AR-15s and other firearms protected under the Second Amendment are unconstitutional.

A top banking regulator released findings Dec. 10, revealing that nine of America’s biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, improperly refused to do business with politically sensitive industries ranging from oil and gas to firearms manufacturers, per a report by the Wall Street Journal.

In the NRA’s case, Brown v. ATF, the Department of Justice on Dec. 17 filed its opposition to the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, along with its own cross-motion, defending the National Firearms Act of 1934’s registration requirement for suppressors, short-barreled long guns, and NFA-defined “any other weapons.”

It’s as predictable as it is disgusting. Anti-gun politicians, before knowing any facts — or even worse, ignoring them — rush to demand more anti-gun restrictions on law-abiding citizens in the wake of horrible tragedies perpetrated by deranged criminals. There they go again after Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Earlier this month, the Washington Free Beacon ran a piece titled, “‘Assault on Our Sovereignty’: How George Soros Funds Foreign Government Lawsuits Against American Gun Makers.” Over the years, Soros has funneled $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, which in turn bankrolls many leftwing causes throughout the world, including anti-gun causes.

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden has announced that one of his priorities for 2026 will be to deregulate suppressors/silencers in the Mount Rushmore State.

New Mexico lawmakers are publicizing a new national report from Everytown for Gun Safety to justify new burdensome and suffocating licensing, training, and fee requirements onto already heavily regulated firearm retailers. Their claim is that “three out of four guns found at New Mexico crime scenes were originally sold by a firearm dealer.” But wait. There’s more.

Ohio hunters checked 85,448 deer during the weeklong gun season that concluded Sunday, Dec. 7. See the top 10 counties for deer taken during the week.