Written by Michael McCoy, Director of MSLF’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms
Published October 7, 2024
The Supreme Court is set to hear Garland v. VanDerStok, another case addressing the Biden-Harris administration’s regulatory overreach, but it’s much more than that.
VanDerStok is the latest battle against the Biden-Harris administration’s unceasing efforts to have agencies — not Congress — legislate away Americans’ constitutional rights. And it’s imperative that Americans win.
Americans have made their own guns for centuries. But in 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a rule that wholly reinterpreted its own authority. For the first time in this country’s history, the ATF imposed the same regulatory requirements on the materials needed for privately made guns as those previously required only for commercial firearm manufacturers and retailers.