Guides
Straight answers to the questions that come before the product page — how a transfer works, what a magazine limit means for your order, and how to choose between two things that look identical online.
Buying & Transfers
How an online firearm purchase actually reaches you, and what it costs.
- How Buying a Gun Online Actually WorksThe gun does not come to your house. It goes to a licensed dealer near you, and you collect it there. Everything else is detail on top of that one fact.
- What an FFL Transfer Should Actually CostThe transfer fee is the one part of an online gun purchase nobody quotes you in advance, and it varies by a factor of three for identical work.
Owning & Caring
Storage, maintenance and the rules that follow the gun home.
- Magazine Capacity Limits, State by StateFourteen states restrict magazine capacity, three of those restrictions changed in the last nine months, and one is currently unenforceable. This is the page we keep current.
- Storing Guns at Home Without Buying the Wrong SafeA safe you can carry out of the house is a lockable box. Most of what people spend money on here is the wrong half of the problem.
- Cleaning and Maintenance, Minus the RitualMost guns are cleaned far more than they need to be and lubricated far less carefully than they should be. Those two errors travel together.
Choosing Gear
How to pick between things that look identical on a product page.
- Red Dot or Scope: Which One the Rifle Actually WantsThe choice is decided by the distance you shoot at and whether both eyes stay open — not by the price of the glass.
- Choosing a First HandgunAlmost every first-handgun mistake is the same one: buying the smallest gun that fits the stated purpose, then never practising with it because it is unpleasant to shoot.
- Reading a Calibre DesignationCalibre names are historical accidents, not measurements. Two cartridges with the same number can be entirely incompatible, and that is the part that matters.
Class 3 & NFA
Suppressors, short-barreled rifles and the Form 4 process, written by the dealer who files the paperwork.
- Suppressor wait times after the $0 stampRemoving the $200 tax did not touch the paperwork. It did change the queue, and that is the part people are getting wrong.
- Buying a suppressor from out of stateThe suppressor does not ship to you. It ships to a dealer near you, and there are two transfers involved rather than one.
- How to buy a suppressor in TexasSix steps, one visit, and a wait. Here is the whole process with nothing left out.
- The $200 tax stamp is now $0What H.R.1 actually changed on 1 January 2026 — and the four things people assume changed with it, which did not.
- Trust or individual?The honest comparison, including the part where a trust is probably not what you need.
- Buying your first suppressorThe four decisions that matter, in the order they actually matter — and the one everybody over-weights.
- How long does the wait actually take?Nobody can give you a date. Here is what genuinely affects your approval, and what does not.
- The Form 4, explainedThe document that moves an NFA item from our books to your name — and the three mistakes that send it back.
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