This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. A Slew of Forced Reset Triggers Hit Market Many of us watched in agony as ATF again came after a popular product designed specifically to comply with the letter of … Read more
On Tuesday, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel vacated a lower court’s injunction that had blocked Defense Distributed from sharing electronic files for 3D printed gun and parts. It was the latest move in a battle between Defense Distributed and the government that’s been going on for more than eight years. The injunction … Read more
What a long strange trip it’s been. And it still isn’t over. Long ago, in a world that now seems far, far away, 22 state attorneys general plus the AG from the District of Columbia sued the Department of State under President Trump. These Democrat AGs had their legal knickers in a twist over the … Read more
By LKB The Supreme Court has denied the cert petition of the New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal in Defense Distributed v. Grewal. In that case, Defense Distributed had sued Grewal for his efforts to restrain (and threats to prosecute) Defense Distributed’s distribution of various 3D print files for firearms and accessories. The district court … Read more
This is the ideal wall hanger. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like. pic.twitter.com/vtriZJQ9t6 — Jameson Lopp (@lopp) November 4, 2020 It’s perfectly legal — in most states — to make your own firearms. Pistols, rifles, shotguns…as long as you’re building it for yourself and not to sell, you’re … Read more
By LKB Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered a bench slap to hoplophobic New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and his campaign to shut down Austin-based Defense Distributed‘s distribution of design files for 3D printed firearms. To understand what this means, a little history is helpful . . . In … Read more
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. Media and politicians push federal ghost gun ban I don’t know what’s in the air aside from this virus … Read more
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. Thanks to the ATF, you can now buy handguns with your hamburgers? In a move that caused the absolute meltdown … Read more
Many of the usual suspects are back again, tearing their hair out over the fact that Defense Distributed has once again made a library of 3D gun files available through their website. Note that these attorneys general trout out, once again, the bogus scare tactic claim that 3D guns will somehow be undetectable to airport … Read more
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