ScentLok introduces the new Ridge Bib, featuring Carbon Alloy® and Silver Alloy™ technologies for odor control and bacteria inhibition. The bib combines stretchy micro-tricot polyester with berber fleece lining, articulated knees, gusseted crotch, and eight pockets for maximum comfort and storage, available summer 2026 at $219.99.
Guns.com, Smith & Wesson, and the Second Amendment Foundation launched a benefit auction featuring a limited-edition Model 1854 Rifle and Model 29 Revolver set. All proceeds support the Second Amendment Foundation's educational programs and legal advocacy efforts across the country.
The secondary firearm market in 2026 continues to reflect a steady, informed seller base rather than speculative volatility. While new production remains strong across major manufacturers, resale activity is being driven by estate transfers, regulatory awareness, and sustained demand for legacy American firearms.
For many owners, the starting point is no longer “Where do I sell?” but rather “What is it worth?” That shift toward model-specific research has become one of the defining characteristics of today’s secondary market.
Comprehensive resources like firearm valuation guides have become increasingly central to that process, as sellers seek pricing context before approaching auctions, local dealers, or national buyers.
Rack Madness, a family-friendly event hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation on March 4 in Oklahoma City, offers free antler and horn scoring. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Foundation and Oklahoma State Game Warden Association are giving away lifetime hunting and fishing licenses to participants.
Russ Befort completed the Nebraska Upland Slam four times in four seasons, winning a Winchester SX4 Upland Field 12-gauge shotgun. The eighth year of the slam, a partnership between Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever of Nebraska, attracted 143 hunters from 10 states pursuing four upland game bird species.
Conservation First USA is hosting a Big Game Super Draw with tickets to hunt pronghorn and elk for 365 days at $10 per species with unlimited purchase options. Seventeen Arizona Special Big Game Tags are available this year, with proceeds benefiting the Arizona Game and Fish Department and Arizona Habitat Partnership Committee.
Michigan's Natural Resources Commission approved a statewide coyote management season running March 2 through October 14 to address interspecies conflict and animal overabundance. The season permits hunting on private and public lands with specific restrictions, requires appropriate licenses, and mandates proper carcass disposal.
Dennis Highby, former Cabela's CEO who joined the company in 1976 and led it to become a $4 billion outdoor retailer, passed away February 26 at age 76. Highby was instrumental in Cabela's growth, IPO in 2004, and was credited by industry leaders like Gary Loomis and Tim Leatherman for launching their success.
ZEISS and palero signed an agreement to spin off the Hunting & Nature business into an independent company with palero as sole owner. ZEISS will license its brand to the new company, with completion planned for the second half of 2026. The new entity will continue developing analog optics, trail cameras, and digital solutions under the ZEISS brand.
Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors announced Marshall Starks as its first Regional Director. With over 7 years of fundraising experience and a West Point degree, Starks will establish chapters nationwide and launch fundraising events to expand mentored hunting and fishing opportunities across 40 US states within four years.
B&P USA, manufacturer of premier shotshells for clays and hunting, launched its redesigned website at baschieri-pellagriusa.com. The platform offers shooters online purchasing, product specifications, and brand heritage information while supporting existing retail partners. Director of Marketing Christian Hogg emphasized B&P's commitment to delivering quality ammunition and enhancing digital engagement with its community.
Real Avid has launched the Master Maintenance Collection for Glock, a comprehensive toolkit featuring essential tools and supplies for Glock pistol owners. The collection includes sight pushers, cleaning kits, magnetic bore lights, and maintenance products designed for upgrades, cleaning, and tuning of Glock handguns.
Italian Firearms Group announces the Kodiak Survivalist, a compact express rifle from Davide Pedersoli chambered in .44 Remington Magnum. The side-by-side barrel rifle features an 18" barrel, weighs 6.17 lbs, and combines traditional craftsmanship with modern performance for hunters seeking refined utility.
T/C Arms launches multiple new products including the ENCORE PROHunter Pistol Frame Assembly, ENCORE PROHunter Turkey Shotgun, ENCORE PROHunter FireStick Muzzleloader .50 cal., expanded accessories, and returning Contender Barrels. CEO Gregg Ritz emphasizes the company's commitment to modularity and American-built reliability across proven platforms.
Camfour is offering Turkey Season Focus Week from March 2-6 with special promotional pricing up to 21% off select turkey shotguns and premium ammunition. The promotion aims to help dealers prepare for increased demand with expanded inventory of top-performing platforms and TSS turkey loads across multiple gauges.
Guns.com, Credova, and Rost Martin launched an industry-first zero percent financing promotion on all Rost Martin firearms from March 2-15, 2026. Qualified customers can apply at checkout with no negative credit impact and enjoy interest-free payments on their purchases.
Hook & Barrel Magazine announces Kenneth Piper as Senior Managing Editor, where he will lead content production across hunting and fishing verticals. Piper brings 26 years of editorial experience from Buckmasters Whitetail Magazine and previously served as publisher of Outdoor Times.
MTNTOUGH Fitness Labs and Mule Deer Foundation launched the 2026 TOUGH BUCK Workout during MDF's Western Hunting & Conservation Expo in Salt Lake City, generating $120,000 in donations for mule deer conservation. Participants included fitness influencers Remi Warren, Pedro Ampuero, and Adam Foss, with all proceeds benefiting MDF's on-the-ground conservation efforts.
Sarsilmaz will showcase its latest handgun platforms at the 2026 AMCHAR Wholesale Show in Savannah, GA, including the SAR9 Gen3 series, SAR9 SOCOM models, and SAR 7/24 pistol line. The European manufacturer will engage directly with dealers and distributors to discuss inventory strategy and strengthen retail partnerships.
JEBS Chokes achieved record-setting sales and exceptional consumer engagement at the National Wild Turkey Federation Convention in Nashville. The company's newly introduced JEBS Charging Handles sold out by the second day, while its low-profile red-dot mount and branded apparel also demonstrated strong demand.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the city of Fishers opened a 1.3-mile extension of the Nickle Plate Trail, featuring a pedestrian bridge over 96th Street connecting Fishers to Indianapolis. Funded by a $4.5 million DNR grant, the project fills a critical gap and will eventually connect to the Monon Trail, creating a 17-mile regional trail network.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks announced the enrollment period for its CRP Add-on Lease option through the Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program. Landowners can enroll up to 640 CRP acres and receive annual payments, with applications accepted through April 1.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is inviting volunteers to participate in work days on eight wildlife management areas on March 14 to improve habitat and access. David Luker and Mary Beth Hatch encourage all ages, particularly high school students seeking community service hours, to sign up at www.agfc.com/education/volunteer/wma-work-days.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission completed multiple improvement projects across state parks and recreation areas, including trail restoration, facility upgrades, and new amenities at locations like Fort Robinson State Park, Merritt Reservoir, and Ponca State Park, funded through Capital Maintenance Funds and federal grants.
Keith Warren returns to bowhunting in a new Legends Ranch video, using Pyramyd Air's innovative online bow setup service for his first archery hunt in years. The custom-configured bow package allows hunters to order pre-tuned equipment online, tested on trophy whitetails in Michigan's Northwoods.
Outdoor Channel's "Night At The Range" airs Wednesdays 7-10 p.m. ET featuring shooting sports programming including Guns & Ammo hosted by Eric Poole, Handguns hosted by J. Scott Rupp, Gun Stories hosted by Joe Mantegna, American Rifleman hosted by Mark A. Keefe IV, Shooting USA hosted by John Scoutten, and Airgunner Challenge hosted by Mike Hart and Rossi Morreale.
MyOutdoorTV launches its "Turkey Season" programming from March through May, featuring shows like Can't Stop the Flop, BuckVentures Turkey, Drury's Turkey Season, and the live "Turkey Takedown with Michael Waddell." Sean Luxton, Sr. Vice President and MOTV General Manager, highlights the platform's comprehensive turkey hunting content for all skill levels.
What the Second Amendment community has long known has become increasingly difficult for gun grabbers to deny: no handgun is safe from the prohibitionist agenda. In the past, gun control advocates were at least honest about their ambitions to ban all handguns. But as that goal became increasingly unpopular and legally problematic, they shifted to portraying certain guns as more scary and dangerous than others.
This included targeting handguns based on their looks, their materials, their size, the presence or absence of various features, even their coloring, to name just a few examples. The latest evolution in this march back toward a general ban is to focus not on what a handgun actually is but on what it could become, if it were to fall into the wrong hands.
Earlier this month, Connecticut Governor Ted Lamont rolled out the East Coast version of the California GLOCK ban. Unsurprisingly, it’s not an improvement. Governor’s Bill HB5043 would seek to penalize “any individual or any [other actor] that, within this state, distributes, transports or imports into the state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, any convertible pistol.” The crime would be classified as a Class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $5,000 fine.
Notably, it’s already illegal to convert a pistol into an automatic firearm, and the devices to do so are already illegal in Connecticut. Thus, the relevant conduct and hardware are already covered by the law. What this latest legislation seeks to ban is the more metaphysical concept of potentiality.
“Precursor prohibitions” are one of the more recent developments in gun control. Lawsuits set the tone. Legislation then sought to implement the concept wherever the disdain for Second Amendment rights was at its zenith. Manufacturers of supposedly nonconforming handguns were directly threatened with consequences. The California Glock ban signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last year escalated the trend. Specifically, the law, scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2026, provided that licensed firearms dealers “shall not sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol.”
Two developments quickly followed the California law’s enactment. First, NRA filed a lawsuit challenging the California ban, along with Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, and others. Second, Glock announced design changes to their pistols, although it denied the move was in response to the legislation.
Now, NRA is warily following developments in Connecticut. Legislators there would do well to read NRA’s complaint in the California case, Jaynes v. Bonta:
Textually, the right to “keep and bear” weapons includes the right to acquire them. As Heller has made clear, the only historical justification that could justify banning the possession of a firearm is that the arm is both “dangerous and unusual.” Arms that are “in common use” are, by definition, neither. Thus, in Heller, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment “protects the possession and use of weapons that are ‘in common use at the time.’ A law that bans the sale of—and correspondingly prevents citizens from acquiring—a weapon in common use violates the Second Amendment. Semiautomatic handguns with cruciform trigger bars are not different from any other type of semiautomatic handgun in a constitutionally relevant way. The Supreme Court has already held that handguns are in common use and cannot be banned. (“[H]andguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense in the home, and a complete prohibition of their use is invalid.”).
California, Connecticut, and other states undoubtedly waiting in the wings cannot avoid this constitutional limitation by recharacterizing common firearms as merely the raw material for uncommon firearms. If they can do that, why could they not likewise try to enforce the claim that every law-abiding firearm owner is merely an armed criminal waiting to happen?
If that sounds preposterous, consider that the gun control agenda is almost wholly premised on targeting neutral conduct or technology in the absence of ill-intent, not the blatant acts of actual criminals. There is no obvious limit to the precursor mentality under which everything that could potentially lead to a firearm-related crime is more of a priority than fighting crime itself.
