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In 1951, about one year into the Korean War, American troops positioned near Chorwon, roughly 60 miles north of Seoul. Soldiers, preparing to bombard a nearby village, noticed something strange in the hills—something Private First Class Francis P. Wall would later describe as objects or lights resembling “jack-o’-lanterns” moving across the mountain. One of the objects even approached the battlefield, forcing the Americans to engage.

According to Wall’s account, artillery couldn’t damage the object, which emitted a brilliant pulsating light and a metallic sound when struck with rifle fire. Soldiers also reported experiencing a strange physical sensation, with members of the unit becoming ill.

Wall recalled that the strange craft moved toward the village as American artillery was firing. Shells and airbursts exploded near the object, yet it apparently suffered no visible damage. The object did, however, demonstrate unusual maneuverability, including abrupt movements and sharp turns. The object also appeared orange, but then pivoted toward the American position and changed colors to a bright blue-green pulsating light. This is about the time the Americans engaged with it.

Wall reportedly asked his commander for permission to fire, and then engaged with his M1 rifle. According to Wall, bullets struck the object, producing a metallic “ding,” but then fell away. If the account is to believed, it appears the object was physical and not a trick of the light, but hard and metallic.

The object then began moving side to side rapidly. The lights flashed on and off. Then, allegedly, the object fired back.

In a detailed account in a 1987 interview with John P. Timmerman of the Center for UFO Studies, Wall said the object emitted something resembling a pulsed beam or ray, which Wall compared to segments of light from a sweeping searchlight. When the beam reached Wall, he recounted a burning sensation and a tingling throughout his body. The light caused soldiers to retreat into an underground bunker, where they watched the object hovering overhead through openings and windows. Then the object departed rapidly at a 45-degree angle. And as suddenly as the encounter began, it ended.

Three days after the encounter, the company was evacuated, with some soldiers receiving medical treatment. Wall claimed the men were diagnosed with dysentery and unusually high white-blood-cell counts. UFO researcher Richard F. Haines, a former NASA research scientist, later suggested the reported symptoms sounded compatible with radiation exposure. Of course, that is a retrospective interpretation from a UFO researcher without contemporaneous medical records establishing radiation poisoning—so, grain of salt.

Attorney General Jay Jones announced Tuesday he has created a new unit within his office: the Firearms Accountability & Industry Responsibility Unit.

The unit will investigate and bring civil enforcement actions against firearm industry members who violate a new law passed this year that requires them to implement business practices aimed at preventing giving a gun to a firearm trafficker, someone who is at risk of using a gun to harm someone, or a “straw purchaser” — someone who legally buys a gun to give it to someone who is prohibited from owning a gun.

The new law, signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger in April, authorizes the Office of the Attorney General to investigate firearm industry members suspected of breaking the rules. It also prohibits firearm industry members from knowingly contributing to a public nuisance through unlawful or unreasonable sales, manufacturing, importing or marketing practices. The attorney general can sue businesses over improper sales, distribution or marketing, as well as practices that make it easier for firearms to be obtained or diverted illegally.

“Public safety can’t be pushed to the side or saved for another day — the cost is too high, which is why our office has created this path for Virginia to comprehensively seek justice for families who have been impacted by gun violence,” said Jones in a statement Tuesday. “While the law continues to hold perpetrators of violence accountable, the FAIR Unit allows our office the opportunity to hold those who are negligently contributing to the illicit flow of firearms in impacted communities accountable."

The new unit, housed within the Civil and Criminal Justice & Public Safety Divisions, will investigate suspected illegal activity across Virginia and bring lawsuits to stop such activity and seek damages and restitution.

The Attorney General’s Office is hiring civil litigators, prosecutors and investigators for the new unit.
“Creating safer communities starts with holding dealers and manufacturers accountable when they are reckless with the lives of Virginians,” Jones said. “The FAIR Unit will play an integral role in building lasting public safety in our communities.”

A Georgetown professor just taught gun control activists an important lesson: When you criticize studies that don’t support anti-gun talking points, be careful what you wish for — you just might get it. In this case, they got an unprecedented amount of new data that obliterates their narrative.

In 2021, professor William English published the findings of his National Firearms Survey, by far the most comprehensive assessment of gun ownership ever conducted. The data demonstrated that defensive gun uses were commonplace, that ordinary Americans really like the weapons gun control activists hate most and that longstanding stereotypes about the "sort" of Americans who exercise their Second Amendment rights were misplaced.

Gun control activists predictably hated this. They attacked the report’s conclusions and author, blasting the survey over nitpicky concerns. English explained how the alleged problems wouldn’t have significantly impacted the results. Critics categorically dismissed the report anyway.

So, English humored them. He re-administered the survey, "fixing" its alleged "mistakes."

If gun control activists hated the 2021 conclusions, they will likely lose their minds over the new ones, which English just released online. The improved and redesigned 2026 survey fails to vindicate their criticisms and deals even mightier blows to anti-gun narratives.

The nation's high court is preparing to hear arguments over the legality of state and local bans on popular semi-auto firearmswhile those passionate about the issue take sides.

The cases, Viramontes v. Cook County (No. 25-238), and Grant v. Higgins (No. 25-566), have been before the federal court system for years but were combined in June. While challenging a state ban in Connecticut and a smaller one in Cook County, Illinois, the decision will have nationwide implications, with Virginia's looming ban, for instance, on hold pending its outcome. 

With the stage now set, the Supreme Court announced on Sept. 4 that oral arguments before the justices in the combined Viramontes case will be heard on Dec. 2, 2026. The focus question will revolve around whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess the AR-15 platform and similar semi-auto rifles.

Virginia’s Democratic Delegate Dan Helmer, who authored the Commonwealth’s ban on Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) and standard-capacity magazines, is regretting his invitation to ask him anything at a recent Reddit townhall.

Virginians took him up on his offer. And, boy, did they have questions.
Delegate Helmer quixotically offered in his invitation to “ask me anything” with an explanation of his ill-fated gun grab, explaining his military service and four terms in elected office in Virginia. He explained, “That’s why I passed the long-awaited bill to ban assault weapons, protecting our communities and our loved ones,” adding, “I believe government should work for the people.”

Turns out, the people of Virginia are thinking he’s working for special interests and not for them

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Imagine an alien civilization that runs on dazzling technologies far more advanced than our own. Picture city-size starships, planet-wide mines or swarms of solar panels that harvest energy directly from a star.

As these aliens go about their otherworldly business, the erosive forces of space wear down their infrastructure, loosening tiny bits of debris that detach and drift into the cosmos. If the civilization collapses, its remains degrade even faster. Clouds of particles might be unleashed into the galaxy, akin to the microplastics in Earth’s oceans, sprinkling countless worlds with the detritus of an extraterrestrial society.

Some of these particles, if they exist, may have even wafted through our solar system, perhaps settling on the surface of the moon, proposes a team of scientists focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. In their provocative study, which is in peer review for the* *International Journal of Astrobiology, they suggest that searching for these microscopic remnants in lunar soil could resolve one of humanity’s great questions: Are we alone in the universe?

“If any other technological civilization has ever existed in our galaxy, it’s not an unreasonable hypothesis to think that particles of them are on the moon in some quantity,” said Lewis Pinault, an affiliate scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. and a researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London , who led the research.

In the study, the team showed how alien infrastructure might weather and erode into tiny particles and modeled how they would be dispersed through the galaxy. This process is already well observed here on Earth: Satellites, for example, shed microscopic material into space.

Sofia Sheikh, a scientist at the SETI Institute who studies hypothetical alien technologies known as “technosignatures,” described the team’s idea as “a creative and worthwhile avenue.” She said that is especially true in the context of renewed interest in the moon from Artemis, a NASA program that aims to return astronauts to the moon’s surface.

“We know on Earth that time and entropy take their toll on everything that humans make,” wrote Dr. Sheikh, who was not involved in the study, “and there’s a lot more to explore in how the breakdown of technological artifacts can be applied to SETI searches.”

Dr. Pinault and his colleagues modeled the possible trajectories of the particles through the galaxy, showing how they might intersect with our solar system over time. They speculate that some particles might survive impacts with the moon, leaving traces of alien societies that may have already gone extinct.

“If you concede that looking for alien intelligences is a legitimate part of science, which clearly it is, then looking for the technological products — a.k.a artifacts of these intelligences — ought to be just as scientifically valid as looking for their radio emissions,” said Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science at** **Birkbeck College, University of London and a co-author on the study.

The idea was inspired in part by the Ukrainian researcher Alexey V. Arkhipov, who in the 1990s pioneered the idea that the moon could be a collection site for alien artifacts. But in that era, the search for alien life was largely relegated to the fringes of academic research, and Dr. Arkhipov’s research didn’t gain much traction at the time.

Dr. Pinault and his colleagues have resurrected the concept and trained their focus on particles on the small scale of microns, comparable in size to a single bacterium. In a nod to Dr. Arkhipov’s work, the scientists named their hypothetical specks “Arkhipov particles” in the study.

Each star could have had multiple civilizations that were generating debris, Dr. Pinault said. He added that aliens “may have become starfarers who are developing similar technologies around each star system that they go to, so the potential of there being quite a bit of interesting debris in the galaxy is pretty high.”

The researchers also considered the possibility that aliens might have dispatched microscopic machines for surveillance purposes or other types of active missions. They called these operational objects “Bracewell particles” after the physicist Ronald Bracewell, who proposed the idea of autonomous alien probes in the 1960s.

Jason Wright, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and a SETI researcher, called the preprint “impressive” and “extremely thorough” and said the approach was worth a shot.
“They’ve revived what is actually a pretty obscure idea and shown that it’s plausible,” said Dr. Wright, who was not involved in the work.

To test their hypothesis, the scientists propose sending a mission to the surface of the moon to sift through about a cubic meter (35 cubic feet) of soil as a starting point — a tall ask. Specialized instruments would then comb through the soil searching for artificial particles, perhaps by screening for metals and other manufactured substances.

Dr. Pinault has already developed models designed to search for larger artificial objects on the moon, such as the unlocated remains of the Soviet lander Luna 9. Similar models could also be trained to detect tiny grains that might have an artificial origin.

Even if artificial grains were identified, there would be a high chance that they were of human origin. Many spacecraft parts have crashed into the moon over the decades, so it would not be surprising to find micron-scale debris from our own defunct missions. To determine whether a particle came from Earth or from some alien world, scientists would need to analyze the chemical fingerprint of the object.

Finding even one alien technosignature in one lunar sample is a long shot, Dr. Crawford said. But if one were found in the moon’s dust — and confirmed to be genuinely alien, rather than rubbish from our own civilization — it would answer the tantalizing mystery of whether life exists beyond Earth.

“The chances of finding anything on the moon are so small,” Dr. Crawford said, that “this would immediately imply that there must probably be lots and lots of them, at least in the history of the galaxy.”

“It would be a very, very important discovery if made,” he added, “but it is a needle-in-a-haystack exercise.”

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A new book coming soon from one of the top researchers of mysterious phenomena in the world is expected to bring explosive new details to light as Jay Stratton’s “Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life” will release in mid-October.

George Knapp was able to get an interview with Stratton at a UAP conference in Alabama, the video of which is embedded in this article. Stratton is a major force behind many secret projects focused on numerous unexplained mysteries, including UFO/UAP encounters. UAP stands for unidentified anomalous phenomena.

He cofounded the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program(AAWSAP) in Las Vegas with some of the world’s top minds.
Stratton’s work would eventually lead him to be tapped to run both the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, spending his time, money, and effort to study mysterious topics in a comprehensive, scientific way.

Stratton spent a lot of time at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah and said he took home devious “hitchhikers.” According to Stratton, these hitchhikers never left him and continue to bother him in his own home almost two decades later.

Stratton does not mind his association with esotericism. In fact, he co-founded and plays lead guitar for a rock band named Hitchhiker.

Brisbane, Queensland Sep 2, 2026 (Issuewire.com)  - UFO to UAP Explained has released a new News Special examining official government records that reveal Australia’s involvement in Five Eyes discussions on unidentified anomalous phenomena and confirm that the United States military provided classified UAP analysis to Australian Defence.

The investigation, titled “Five Eyes UAP Intelligence Network Revealed: Australia Received Classified US Analysis,” draws on documents released by the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and Australian Department of Defence Freedom of Information records.

AARO documents confirm that representatives from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand joined U.S. officials at the Pentagon on 24 May 2023 for what was formally described as the “FVEY Inaugural UAP Caucus Working Group.”

According to the official agenda, the meeting was intended to create shared awareness of allied UAP issues involving detection, identification and mitigation, and to develop a framework for future UAP collaboration. Participants included representatives from AARO, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration and Five Eyes partners.

The agenda specifically identified Australia as one of four Five Eyes partners scheduled to provide a national UAP update. It also proposed discussions covering:
Networks for sharing Five Eyes UAP reporting at unclassified and classified levels.
Shared databases showing known objects detected using different sensors.
Five Eyes UAP collection planning.
Future UAP meetings.
Potential connections with Five Eyes groups dealing with emerging and disruptive technologies.

An associated AARO email states that the meeting was held in a Pentagon room cleared for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information — TS/SCI. The use of such a facility does not establish that every discussion or presentation was classified at that level, but it demonstrates the intelligence environment surrounding the talks.

The Australian records provide an additional and potentially significant dimension.
In Defence material responding to parliamentary questions, Australia confirmed:
“Yes. The United States military released classified analysis to Defence.”
Defence also confirmed that Australia’s Air Commander provided a classified summary of relevant Air Force capabilities, while existing RAAF intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, aircrew, air battle managers and intelligence officers provide pathways for observations to be communicated and analysed.

Australian Defence has separately confirmed that a Defence representative at the Australian Embassy in Washington attended the May 2023 Five Eyes UAP forum.
The revelations create an important policy question for Australia.
Despite participating in allied UAP discussions and receiving classified U.S. analysis, Defence has maintained that the Defence Aviation Safety Authority does not have a specific UAP reporting protocol. Australian Defence documents state that unusual observations are instead handled through existing aviation safety, intelligence, surveillance and national-security mechanisms where appropriate.

“The important revelation is not that Five Eyes has proven an extraterrestrial explanation for UAP. There is no evidence in these documents supporting that conclusion,” said UFO to UAP Explained host Matt Tones.
“What the records do establish is that unidentified anomalous phenomena have been considered seriously enough to warrant formal Five Eyes collaboration, classified information sharing and assessment of Australia’s own detection capabilities. That raises legitimate questions about why Australia still has no transparent national UAP reporting framework.”

The documents do not reveal the contents of the classified U.S. analysis supplied to Australia. They do not establish that the material concerned extraterrestrial technology, non-human intelligence or recovered craft. Classified information may involve sensitive sensor capabilities, foreign surveillance platforms, collection methods, intelligence sources or military assessments.

However, the existence of the classified exchange itself is significant.
The Five Eyes partnership is one of the world’s most established intelligence-sharing relationships. The fact that UAP detection, reporting, collection and data sharing entered that framework demonstrates that unidentified objects are being considered as an intelligence and national-security problem irrespective of their ultimate explanation.

Australian Defence continues to monitor AARO reporting and has stated that it takes threats to aviation safety and national security seriously, while maintaining that existing mechanisms would need to demonstrate insufficient capability before resources were allocated to an Australian equivalent of AARO.

However, the existence of the classified exchange itself is significant.
The Five Eyes partnership is one of the world’s most established intelligence-sharing relationships. The fact that UAP detection, reporting, collection and data sharing entered that framework demonstrates that unidentified objects are being considered as an intelligence and national-security problem irrespective of their ultimate explanation.

Australian Defence continues to monitor AARO reporting and has stated that it takes threats to aviation safety and national security seriously, while maintaining that existing mechanisms would need to demonstrate insufficient capability before resources were allocated to an Australian equivalent of AARO.

Sources
U.S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — FOIA 24-F-1426, FVEY Inaugural UAP Caucus Working Group.
Australian Department of Defence — Senate Estimates and FOI records confirming classified U.S. analysis, Australian capability assessment and attendance at the Five Eyes forum.
Australian Department of Defence — current UAP reporting and Defence Aviation Safety Authority policy material.

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was spring 2025 and the hunt was on.
American authorities near a sensitive Army missile testing facility in New Mexico had spotted a quadcopter-style drone flying in such a way that suggested it was conducting reconnaissance in restricted airspace around the range.

It wasn’t the first time. Just months earlier, in fall 2024, a similar drone was seen flying a similar pattern over the same base, leading agents with US Customs and Border Protection on a roughly 35-mile chase, multiple current and former US officials said.

Using helicopters and drones and taking “absolutely beautiful video,” a former US official said, the border agents tailed the drone until it crossed into Mexican airspace, where they had to turn back. They never learned who was operating the drone, or why.

But this time, officials set a trap.

The episode is one of countless incursions by drones into US airspace over military facilities and other restricted government areas, often flown by hobbyists, cartels ferrying drugs to a third destination, or tourists — but sometimes believed to be flown by foreign agents conducting spy operations.

In late 2023 under President Joe Biden, when a mysterious swarm of drones flew over an Air Force base in Virginia for 17 days, some** **officials who worked on the situation described it as a leaderless free-for-all.

The situation was so chaotic that officials in the Joint Chiefs of Staff — a part of the military that is supposed to advise, not participate in operations — stepped in to create a task force to try to bring order to the situation, according to one of the former US officials.

“It was a circus, it was embarrassing,” this person said. “That’s not in their mandate. But they saw a vacuum.”

Sometimes, the Pentagon office tasked with identifying and analyzing “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” — the government’s term for UFOs — is also called because it has specialized equipment designed to track flying** **objects of an unknown origin. As it did in White Sands, the UAP office can provide a common operating picture for officials tracking drones.

The Pentagon in 2025 also established a task force to coordinate counter-drone technology and techniques across the military. It is exploring directed energy weapons such as lasers and high-powered microwaves that officials hope can cheaply disable drones. DHS in January established a similar office.

There have still been prominent failures.
In two back-to-back misadventures in February, the Federal Aviation Administration closed the airspace over El Paso, Texas, after the Defense Department failed to coordinate with the aviation agency before it allowed CBP to test a counter-drone laser system, sources told CNN at the time. The move effectively shut down the city’s airport for eight hours.

About two weeks later, the US military accidentally shot down an unmanned aircraft operated by CBP with a laser about 50 miles south of El Paso.

I will be hosting this AMA on Monday, August 31st from 4-6pm Eastern, but I wanted to post in advance so people can get their questions in.

I am a West Point graduate, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, Rhodes Scholar, small business leader, husband, and father. 

I am the son and grandson of immigrants. My grandparents came to this country as Holocaust survivors and refugees. In America, they were welcomed and found prosperity, freedom, and peace. I believe the American Dream belongs to all of us — no matter your race, religion, where you were born, or who you love.

To defend the country that had done so much for my family, I joined the Army and attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I served in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea, and finally here in Virginia, remaining in the U.S. Army Reserve until 2024.

Now in my fourth term, I am proud to have led efforts as the House Democratic Caucus Campaigns Chair to build a progressive majority in the General Assembly — the most diverse body of representatives in its history. Together, we are working to protect our democracy from Trump and the MAGA agenda.

That's why I passed the long-awaited bill to ban assault weapons, protecting our communities and our loved ones. To ensure thousands of Virginia families have access to food, I authored and passed the largest expansion of SNAP benefits in state history. And because the president and his allies have spent far too long twisting the truth about January 6th, I passed a law requiring our schools to teach students what really happened that day — and introduced another ensuring the attack's perpetrators can never hold office in Virginia.

I believe government should work for the people. That's why I show up every day to protect what I believe in: access to safe and legal abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, voting rights, and our commonwealth's ability to stand up to any threat from this administration.

Ask me anything — I'll be here answering your questions on Monday.

The Virginia attorney general's office announced Friday that the legal challenge to the state's assault weapons ban has been stayed while the Supreme Court considers broader challenges to assault weapons restrictions.

For gun retailers, the uncertainty has made keeping up with the law more difficult.

TJ Smith, manager at Point Blank Gun Shop, said the store has put certain firearms back on its shelves while the legal challenge plays out.

"They're back on the wall now. We have ARs and stuff back on the shelf, high-capacity handguns back in the case."

Smith said employees have spent significant time researching changes to Virginia's gun laws so they can answer customers' questions.

"We have to do a lot of research, a lot of nighttime study and stuff like that."

He said customers frequently call the store asking about changes.
"I get phone calls every day asking about the new laws with suppressors, the new laws with handguns, high-capacity magazines."

Former U.S. Attorney John Fishwick said there is no immediate need for people to worry about enforcement of the assault weapons ban while the case remains on hold.

"This law is not going to be enforced until we get the final legal answer on whether it violates the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution," Fishwick said.
The ultimate decision could take months.

The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments this fall in a case involving an assault weapons ban. Fishwick said the court typically issues decisions in major cases toward the end of its term in June.

"And this would be a significant case," he added.

Fishwick also offered his prediction for how the court could rule, saying he believes Virginia's law will ultimately be found unconstitutional.

For now, however, the legal status of Virginia's assault weapons restrictions remains tied to the ongoing court proceedings.

RICHMOND, Va. - Today, a Lancaster County Court judge joined three other state courts and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in granting a stay in John Crump, et al. v. Jeffrey S. Katz, a challenge to Virginia’s assault weapons ban and large capacity magazine restrictions*.* Attorney General Jay Jones issued the following statement:

My office has fought for the uniform and fair application of the law, and today’s decision delivers exactly that. With the United States Supreme Court now reviewing major challenges to assault weapons bans, this stay ensures Virginia’s cases move forward on solid, consistent footing.

Virginia’s constitutional assault weapons ban is an evidence-based response to addressing the epidemic of gun violence and to protect families, law enforcement, and communities.

By aligning these cases under a single legal path while the nation awaits the Supreme Court’s ruling, we’re building a clear and consistent process, and we remain confident that this lifesaving measure will ultimately be upheld.
Gun violence continues to drive violent crime in Virginia and across the nation, and assault weapons are designed to inflict maximum harm in seconds.

The law enacted by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor will save lives, and it stands firmly within the bounds of the Constitution of Virginia.
My office will keep pushing forward, doing everything we can to defend Virginia’s gun laws and keep our communities safe.”
 
Published on: August 21, 2026

From the post:

*When this person posted the video people left comments saying it was Venus, clouds, ect and many even came to the conclusion it was his truck causing Venus to bounce around. Clearly they didn't think this out or they would have noticed that when he was moving around from inside the truck to outside, the UFO was still moving in loops. And its focus was great. Did you notice the telephone pole wires were not shaking, instead the wires were steady and focused the whole time and so were the clouds. This means the UFO really was spinning in loops.* 

US Supreme Court upheld the same regulation last year.

This 2022 rule applies to gun kit and parts makers.

Under rule, these products must carry serial numbersLicenses and buyer background checks also mandatedTrump administration has defended the rule in court

Aug 18 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas has declared that a regulation adopted by Democratic former President ‌Joe Biden's administration targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns" is unconstitutional — a ruling issued after the U.S. Supreme Court last year upheld the measure.

U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth ruled on Monday that the 2022 rule violates the right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment and was too vague to satisfy the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantees.

The ruling applies to certain short-barreled shotguns and rifles and suppressors. It also applies to a niche subset of firearms referred to by the federal government as "any other weapons." This is a catch-all for concealable, unique firearms that don't fall into other categories. They can include gadget guns, like pen guns or umbrella guns.

And Gun Owners of America said, some states may still require additional rules and firearm registration forms may still be required under the federal Gun Control Act.

But there is a push from gun rights groups and Republican lawmakers to get the DOJ to permanently apply this ruling nationwide.

In a statement, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the agency is still "processing forms and will continue to process forms consistent with applicable law, regulations, and agency policy."

Because of the legal murkiness, Pratt urges people to talk to an attorney before foregoing registration.

Like the Gun Owners of America, ATF says, "Anyone who has questions about how a court ruling may affect their particular circumstances should consult with their attorney for legal advice."