In the case of the .357 Sig barrel thread, requesting information about a particular firearm or barrel due to state laws would be fine in the Guns section, we wouldn't have a problem with that.
2A rights are fine to discuss in "Armed with Knowledge".
On the other hand, discussions about...
Correct. The staff will do our best to delete such threads/posts when they come up. Any other members, if you are able, please use the Report function to report any non-2A political posts (or any other rule-breaking posts) to assist the staff in deleting those threads/posts.
Going forward, we will no longer allow political discussions or memes in "The Lounge", or any other section, unless the discussion is 2A-related and is in the "Armed with Knowledge" section.
For the full announcement, please see this link...
Important Update from Forum Staff on 01/26/2026
Hello all,
The forum staff would like to take a moment to remind everyone of the forum rules regarding politics. We acknowledge that we have at times been lax on the rules regarding politics, but due to an increasing number of political threads...
We will have an announcement forthcoming shortly. Stay tuned.
I'm going to lock this thread for now, as all questions will be answered in our announcement.
Thanks for the heads up on this. I've passed this feedback onto the developers of the main Springfield website, and I'll let you know once I have more info.
Hi Joe, I took a look at our email logs and it appears everything is working as expected from what I can tell. You don't have emails going to your spam by chance, do you?