Center to Keep and Bear Arms Halts Biden’s Firearm Rule
MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) has just scored a huge win against the Biden Administration and the ATF in VanDerStok v. Garland, a case about our natural…
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Center to Keep and Bear Arms Halts Biden’s Firearm Rule
MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms (CKBA) has just scored a huge win against the Biden Administration and the ATF in VanDerStok v. Garland, a case about our natural…
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.
VanDerStok v. Garland
The ATF's Unlawful Redefinition of Your Rights
This Final Rule, addressing the “Definition of ‘Frame or Receiver’ and Identification of Firearms,” alters the legal landscape surrounding firearms regulation, giving complete discretionary power to the ATF and its Director to decide what the ATF can regulate and how. The ATF is usurping Congress’s legislative power and is wielding the regulation to severely burden the practice of self-manufacture and the businesses that facilitate it.
Supreme Court Extends Gun Rights Victory to CKBA Amicus Cases
On June 30, in a flurry of activity to close the term, the Supreme Court granted petitions in four Second Amendment cases, and immediately sent them back to lower courts, with instructions to follow the recent landmark gun rights decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which affirmed public carry as an essential part of the natural right protected by the Second Amendment. Bruen made it clear that Second Amendment cases must be judged purely by the constitutional text as informed by history, and that courts must place self-defense rights on the same level as other Bill of Rights guarantees.