Dogs can sleep in peace tonight.
Dogs can sleep in peace tonight.
A Clinton-appointed judge granted last Friday the demand by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that the ATF be prohibited from enforcing its “pistol brace” rule until all pending litigation has been resolved. Wrote U.S. District Court Judge Sam Lindsay: “The court determines that the NRA’s motion should be granted [in order to] maintain the status quo pending the resolution of this litigation.”
That litigation began almost immediately after the ATF rewrote its definition of a firearm in January 2023, declared that a firearm mounted with a stabilizing brace suddenly became a short-barreled rifle covered by the National Firearms Act of 1934. It didn’t matter that the agency had for decades prior ruled that such a brace did not turn a pistol into a short-barreled rifle.
The agency ignored its own history, the Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Second Amendment, the quarter of a million Americans who protested against it during the “public comment” period, and the letter from the Senate Republican Caucus declaring that its enforcement “would turn millions of [otherwise] law-abiding Americans into criminals overnight, and would constitute the largest Executive branch-imposed gun registration and confiscation scheme in American history.”
[Source.](https://thenewamerican.com/us/atf-loses-again-over-pistol-brace-rule/)
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A Clinton-appointed judge granted last Friday the demand by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that the ATF be prohibited from enforcing its “pistol brace” rule until all pending litigation has been resolved. Wrote U.S. District Court Judge Sam Lindsay: “The court determines that the NRA’s motion should be granted [in order to] maintain the status quo pending the resolution of this litigation.”
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That litigation began almost immediately after the ATF rewrote its definition of a firearm in January 2023, declared that a firearm mounted with a stabilizing brace suddenly became a short-barreled rifle covered by the National Firearms Act of 1934. It didn’t matter that the agency had for decades prior ruled that such a brace did not turn a pistol into a short-barreled rifle.
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The agency ignored its own history, the Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Second Amendment, the quarter of a million Americans who protested against it during the “public comment” period, and the letter from the Senate Republican Caucus declaring that its enforcement “would turn millions of [otherwise] law-abiding Americans into criminals overnight, and would constitute the largest Executive branch-imposed gun registration and confiscation scheme in American history.”
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