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 and constitutional right to build firearms for personal use.
On Friday, September 2, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to Tactical Machining, one of the plaintiffs represented by CKBA in the VanDerStok case. The order blocks the ATF and the Department of Justice from enforcing against Tactical Machining a new set of regulations that unlawfully redefine the term “firearm.”
CKBA’s clients are the first in the nation to win an injunction against the Biden Administration’s new rule on firearms. We sought and obtained urgent relief from the court because these regulations could have forced Tactical Machining to shut down its machine shop and retail business.
We were thrilled to read these words from the District Court’s Opinion and Order: “Covered by the injunction, Tactical Machining can operate its business as it has, free from the threat of enforcement of the Final Rule’s unlawful redefinitions.”
Contrary to the text of the Gun Control Act, the ATF’s new rule improperly defines a range of inert objects as “firearms.” With this effort to rewrite the law, the DOJ and ATF are exceeding their authority, and causing unprecedented difficulties for those involved in the lawful self-manufacture of firearms for personal use.
The practice of self-manufacture is a tradition older than our Constitution, and it ensures that Americans are not reliant on government-approved suppliers only for our self-defense.
CKBA has brought the VanDerStok case on behalf of several individuals and organizations harmed by the Biden Administration’s illegitimate power-grab. Learn more about their ongoing fight, and other critical Second Amendment cases, at MSLegal.org/2A.