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The Biden Administration’s Custom-Gun Grab

In 2008, Darren Peters founded a full-service machine shop in Florida with a vision of excellent quality and sterling-class workmanship. His small business has expanded its product line, adding professionals to his team and building a reputation for excellent service and products. In every sense, Darren’s workshop fulfills the American dream. But now, thanks to a bureaucratic rule from the Biden administration, that could all come to end.

The Dark Side of Gun “Buybacks”

Amid brutal inflation and widespread fears of a recession, Americans are pawning their possessions and working extra jobs to make ends meet. Soon, many more Californians may be trading away…

The California Gun Owners Data Leak

If the following series of events was a coincidence, it was an amazing coincidence: On June 23, the Supreme Court decided the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol…

The Media’s Demographic Dilemma

With their reflexively liberal and anti-gun bias, many journalists don’t know what to do with the rise in gun ownership among black women. Trends indicate they’re the fastest growing segment…

The Constitution à la Wittgenstein

When people try to cheat at this Wittgenstein language game of ordered liberty, they are attempting to redefine the purpose of words. They want to make the text of the Constitution geared toward whatever political preference or public policy they have in mind.

MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms Challenges the ATF’s Rule Redefining “Firearm”

Today, Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a case against the ATF over its Final Rule regulating the self-manufacture of firearms and inoperable weapon parts. Representing Mike Andren, Jennifer VanDerStok, and Tactical Machining, LLC, we seek to block the implementation and enforcement of a new regulation that redefines the statutorily defined term “firearm.” We argue that the ATF’s rule wrongly defines many inert objects as firearms, imposing severe regulatory burdens that will have a chilling effect on the practice of firearm self-manufacture, and exceeds the rule-making authority of the executive branch.