This Week In Gun Control
THIS WEEK IN THE FIGHT
Here’s what you may have missed this week in the fight for the Second Amendment…
- Biden’s “Ghost Gun” rule was struck down by the courts. GOA’s case against it is still active.
- Gun shops are passing ATF inspections after selling suppressors with no registration.
- A foreign ransomware gang hacked ATF.
A federal judge struck down the ghost gun rule. Our case is still in the fight.
On August 17, Judge Reed O’Connor threw out the Biden rule that treated unfinished chunks of plastic or metal as complete firearms.
The Judge decided that the rule violates the Second Amendment, and that it was too vague to be legal on top of that.
The rule could not say when a block of material becomes a gun. It gave ATF a list of factors and let the agency decide case by case. Individuals were expected to guess, and guessing wrong is a felony.
Credit where it belongs. That case was brought by Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation, and they earned it. Two things to keep straight. The judge’s order protects the people in that lawsuit, and the government can still take it to the Fifth Circuit.
We have been fighting the same rule since 2022. Our case is Morehouse Enterprises v. ATF, filed in North Dakota with a gun shop standing beside us as co-plaintiff.
That case also takes aim at ATF’s registry of gun owners. Hold onto that last part because it comes back at the bottom of this email.
