How We Got Here: The ATF’s Unconstitutional Pistol Brace Ban
By Brandon Williamson
As you’ve no doubt heard, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has recently unilaterally declared virtually all AR and AK-style pistols with attached stabilizing braces to be short barreled...
ATF Offers Stabilizing Brace Virtual Trainings Tomorrow and Wednesday
Attention all FFL holders. Curious about the changes associated with ATF's new ruling on pistol braces? Well, they're holding some virtual trainings tomorrow and Wednesday. ATF announcement follows . . .
January 30, 2023
On January...
The ATF Stabilizing Brace Rule Has Been Published…Now What?
From the NRA-ILA
Today, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) published the final Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces” rule for public inspection in the federal register.
As we reported earlier this month, the...
Firearms Policy Coalition Sues ATF to Block Pistol Brace Ban
From the FPC . . .
Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of litigation challenging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Final Rulemaking on firearms equipped with stabilizing or pistol braces....
The ATF’s Pistol Brace Rule: This is Not the Time for Infighting
People in the firearms community are passionate. Anti-civil rights extremists love to paint the NRA as an all-powerful lobbying boogeyman, but in reality, their donations are chump change compared other interest groups. The power...
ATF Not Amused by FFL’s Attempt to Get Rid of Hundreds of Defective Shotguns
According to court filings first reported by CourtWatch, on January 19, 2023, an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, sanitation worker stumbled upon a dumpster with 236 ... shotguns in it. The shocking finding led him to...
SAF Files Motion to Block Enforcement of Connecticut ‘Assault Weapon’ Designation for ‘Any Other...
From the Second Amendment Foundation . . .
The Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a lawsuit challenging a Connecticut gun control law have filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order because...
Op-Ed: It’s a Trap! Do Not Take the ATF Up On the ‘Free’ SBR...
ATF published their new pistol brace rules in the Federal Register on January 31st, kicking off the 120-day grace period for owners of firearms equipped with a pistol brace to register them as SBRs...
SB Tactical, FRAC and 25 States Sue ATF to Block ‘The Largest Gun Registration...
From SB Tactical . . .
SB Tactical, in conjunction with the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition (FRAC), B&T USA, Rick Cicero, and a massive coalition of states, has filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of...
Permitless Carriers Can be Arrested for Driving Past a School While Carrying a Firearm
By Lee Williams
Now that 25 states have passed constitutional carry laws, there are millions of law-abiding Americans who have chosen to exercise their Second Amendment rights by carrying a defensive firearm either openly or...
Montana AG Knudsen: States Will Oppose Biden’s Attempts to Trample the Fundamental Constitutional Right...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called out President Biden’s recent irresponsible, radical, and unconstitutional statements he made during the State of the Union demanding Congress ban firearms commonly used by law-abiding Americans for...
Oh NOW the ATF Thinks Running Guns to the Mexican Cartels is a Bad...
By Lee Williams
Isaac Hernandez, a 25-year-old American citizen who had been living in Mexico, will spend the next six years in a federal prison contemplating the errors of his ways.
On July 11, 2022, Hernandez...