In a significant victory for Second Amendment enthusiasts and firearm owners across the nation, a federal court has dealt a blow to Joe Biden’s attempts to regulate and tax AR-15 style “pistols.” The ruling, delivered by the Texas-based U.S. District Court, deemed the administration’s effort to be “unlawful” and “illegitimate.”
The 12-page decision invalidated a rule that could have resulted in the confiscation of millions of firearms – a move met with significant resistance by gun owners – and the potential incarceration of those who refused to comply with the regime’s directives. The court also blasted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for believing it could transform a long-standing exemption and render the ownership of these firearms illegal.
Celebrate Trump's Historic 2024 Victory with the Exclusive Trump 47th President Collection!
Responding to the case, Mock vs. Garland, the Firearms Policy Coalition unapologetically stated, the “ATF broke the law by being overreaching sneaky pricks. Therefore, the right thing for the Court to do was throw the Rule in the trash. The Court threw the Pistol Brace Rule in the trash.”
The layman’s summary:
ATF was overreaching sneaky pricks.
ATF broke the law by being overreaching sneaky pricks.
Therefore, the right thing for the Court to do was throw the Rule in the trash.
The Court threw the Pistol Brace Rule in the trash. https://t.co/5xxFIkRcAP
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 13, 2024
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time this particular court has dealt with this issue. While the court had previously approved the ATF rule, an appeals court overturned the decision. In the recent judgment, the District Court judge concurred that the ATF rule was not only illegal but also likely to meet rejection in other courts, hinting at a possible showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court.
As it stands, individuals are permitted to own pistols – including AR-style firearms – equipped with stabilizing arm braces. The ATF had long sanctioned the use of these adjustable braces on pistols, despite the fact that they could be used as a style of stock, effectively transforming the firearms into short-barreled rifles. Typically, short-barreled rifles are regulated under the National Firearms Act, necessitating a $200 tax stamp and registration.
Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling highlighted the ATF’s flawed decision-making process, citing the agency’s failure to provide a rationale for its abrupt reversal of its long-standing position. Additionally, the judge lambasted the agency for disregarding user feedback and drafting the rule in a vague manner.
We’d feel sorry for the frustration ATF must feel for constantly losing to the FPC Grassroots Army, but then we’d have to give a fuck what they think. pic.twitter.com/ON295qJoRt
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 13, 2024
With an estimated 10 million or more of these firearms in circulation in America, the ATF’s grace period for owners to register their weapons tax-free saw less than 300,000 firearms recorded. These firearms are popular choices for recreational shooting and self-defense due to their smaller size and adjustable pistol brace stock.
The ruling also underscores the regime’s misleading portrayal of these firearms as the weapon of choice in mass shootings despite only a handful being used in such tragic events. This decision serves as a defense of Americans’ Second Amendment rights and reinforces the principle that government agencies cannot trample on constitutional liberties at their discretion.
You can read the full press release from the Firearms Policy Coalition below:
FPC WIN: BIDEN/ATF “PISTOL BRACE” BAN VACATED
FORT WORTH, TX (June 13, 2024) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition announced a major legal victory in its Mock v. Garland lawsuit challenging the Biden Administration’s “pistol brace” ban rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). In the decision, United States District Court Judge Reed O’Connor granted summary judgment in favor of FPC and its co-plaintiffs and issued a final judgment and order vacating the ATF’s rule. The case and opinion can be found at FPCLegal.org.
“The Biden Administration’s ATF hates us so much that it lawlessly acted to turn millions of gun owners into felons, but FPC and our members ran towards the fire and defeated this evil,” said FPC President Brandon Combs. “Today’s order shows that our community can take on an immoral government and win. FPC members should be proud of what was accomplished today. We look forward to defending this victory on appeal and up to the Supreme Court, just as we have in other cases.”
Today’s victory is one in a line of FPC community successes against the Biden Administration. Indeed, the United States Supreme Court recently agreed to hear one of FPC’s cases in which it prevailed in the courts below.
The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Cody Wisniewski of FPC Action Foundation, Bradley Benbrook and Stephen Duvernay of the Benbrook Law Group, and R. Brent Cooper and Benjamin Passey of Cooper & Scully. Plaintiffs in this case are two individual FPC members, Maxim Defense, and FPC. FPC Action Foundation represented the Plaintiffs, alongside Benbrook Law. FPC expects the Mock decision and remedy to be appealed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
The opinions expressed by contributors and/or content partners are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of RVM News. Contact us for guidelines on submitting your own commentary.
Join the Discussion
COMMENTS POLICY: We have no tolerance for messages of violence, racism, vulgarity, obscenity or other such discourteous behavior. Thank you for contributing to a respectful and useful online dialogue.
COOL!
It was never cool and should have never been brought up illegally in the FIRST place and nobody who did bring this up from GODvernment won’t get punished for this frivolous nonsense threatening lawsuit.
Government never stops trying to take our rights away
Because what they have planned for us is slavery or death if we don’t obey.
Read any history from anywhere.
NEVER give up your guns.
Exactly. Take the glasses off (They Live). See the OBEY signs all around you.
DO NOT COMPLY.
You mean Demoncrat misgovernment.
Make that: Communist Democrap Government never stops trying to take our rights away!
There, fixed it for ya!!
Just saying………………
“….Shall not be infringed”
The ATF is an illegitimate entity anathema to the 2nd Amendment.
Abolish it now.
These motherfuckers don’t care about the constitution nor the courts. Like all tyrants, they only speak one language: force.
They’ll continue to act outside the constitution as they always have.
Fair enough! I agree 1000%.
However the $64,000 QUESTION to the PATRIOTIC Anglo American majority is this….
WHERE is the same “force” & vengeance you applied to innocent CONSERVATIVE Afro-Americans (aka descendants of slaves) after they were lawfully freed TRYING to build their own communities??
Remember Tulsa Oklahoma’s (Black Wall Street) destruction? The BLACK community buried under Lake Lanier (Georgia), Oscarville, The Atlanta Massacre of 1906, etc.??
I just wanna know HOW COME ya’ll got so much smoke for a MINORITY hard working population vying for the alleged American Dream but ya’ll allow a MINORITY bunch of dual citizens who control YOUR government to run roughshod over ya’ll?? Well, the Math ain’t mathing.
My conclusion is ya’ll fear the wrath of the Feds because they’re also armed to the teeth. But harmless Afro-Americans? (I’m NOT talking of ratchet degenerate black thug, HipHop society designed to distract ya’ll from the millions of good conservative Blacks who share similar views as ya’ll).
The hate is real. And now the spics & other fanatical Islamo degenerates are crossing the border fuqing up your freedom & liberty. Had ya’ll teamed up wth CONSERVATIVE Afro Americans during the Civil Rights era, this tyrannical government could’ve been made dormant with a valiant combined patriotic resistance.
But too late! We do not give a flying fuq what disaster is in store for ya’ll. The smart ones are leaving for Africa, Latin America & EurAsia. I repeat, we do not give a fuq what happens to YOUR corrupt society in AmeriKKKa since ya kind of ALLOWED it by being silent & compliant when others were getting screwed out of their livelihood for decades. smdfh
These mf’ers don’t care about the constitution nor the courts. Like all tyrants, they only speak one language: force.
They’ll continue to act outside the constitution as they always have.
I’m waiting for the semi auto bans to hit the courts. Another patently illegal gun grab. I love it when Joetato and others call them weapons of war. Jerks.
“The 12-page decision invalidated a rule that could have resulted in the confiscation of millions of firearms”. Actually the ruling saved the lives of hundreds of ATF agents who would have died trying to enforce an unconstitutional law. Justice Scalia said “The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it ‘shall not be infringed.’ ” It tells the government to keep their hands off.
Good!
This demented, deluded, decrepit, brain-dead, lying, cheating and stealing crook who heads up his crime-family administration keeps bypassing Congress in violation of our Constitution. Thank God Trump will soon be undoing all of Briben’s carnage..
Trump is the only one I see standing for our country. So what happens after the term if he is elected? All I see is what we have now of course, NOBODY WE CAN TRUST!!!!!!!!!!
They will never stop trying because it only costs tax dollars. It costs them nothing. We need to make it cost them personal $$$$$.
I’m not a fan of AR-style pistols, because that allowed ATF to ban AP ammo in 5.56NATO, and losing AP ammo for a popular rifle is worse for the Second Amendment than not having a Frankenstein pistol built from an AR frame. 2A isn’t about hunting or target practice… the real “bad guys” will likely be wearing body armor. Crying over spilt milk, though, I guess.
It’s the prevention of incrementalisim. Where they slowly more the Overton window a little more each time until you have no rights left.
Strike down suppressor registration, taxing etc. Better for hearing. Better for prey such as wild pigs. Law enforcement finds gunshot monitoring too expensive for most areas anyway.
I mean actual destructive wild boar. If they don’t hear the shot they don’t run as fast?
Unless we start punishing them for violations of rights, and by punishment, I mean prison time like the feds would give a police officer for violating someone’s civil rights, this won’t stop. They are crusaders. Cultists who won’t stop pushing for control by disarmament and finally getting to raid and shoot millions of Americans on their porches and in their hallways like Malinowski. This is a stopgap until we wake up and actually make them pay personally for implementing and following these treasonous orders. I’m glad this happened, but it’s pissing in the wind until Americans get serious about stopping this anti-American cult.
2A. no matter what 2A
2A means absolutely NOTING if ya’ll “patriots” are too skeerd to put on some pants & take back your dying Republic. Karma is a bitch!
No government agency has the power to make laws. Only congress can make laws. It is time to call or e-mail your reps and remind them of congress’ power to make laws, not a government agency. These agencies makw “rules” and then try to enforce them as if they were a law. It is illegal as hell.
The ATF like the FBI are some of the most corrupt government groups other than the IRS They think they have the POWER to make there own laws Which sounds ok to catch the bad guy But the have politicized it to take in ALL America They all need defunding
Maybe these morons trying to destroy our rights should read the Constitution of our country, if they are capable of doing so, then maybe they can start running our country like they we’re hired to do.