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Central Texas Gun Works owner Michael Cargill’s lawsuit against the ATF’s bump stock ban went to the Supreme Court of the United States.

The whistleblower group Empower Oversight is warning that the ATF’s pending rule implementing universal background checks violates the law. 

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced legislation Wednesday to block funding for the ATF’s proposed universal background check rule.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys filed a motion in a U.S. District Court Monday, seeking to have gun charges against him dismissed in light of the Supreme Court’s Bruen (2022) decision.

A three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit decided against the ATF’s frame rule, finding that the ATF overstepped its bounds in issuing it.

Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk put a preliminary injunction in place against the ATF’s AR-pistol brace rule, describing the rule as unlawful.

ATF director Steven Dettelbach told Harvard Magazine one of his wish list items is a renewed ban on “assault weapons.”

Guns are back at the Supreme Court, as the justices announced on Friday they will decide on free speech rights for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and whether the federal government can ban bump stocks, which are a firearm accessory, by calling them machineguns.

United States District Court Judge Drew B. Tipton extended the preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) pistol brace rule on Friday.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) sounded the alarm at a Wednesday press conference with members of Women for Gun Rights, highlighting the perilous position of America’s freedoms and warning that President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has “perpetrated an all-out assault on the Second Amendment.”

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued an order Monday vacating U.S. District Court Judge U.S. Reed O’Connor’s Sept. 14, 2023, decision which blocked enforcement of the Biden administration’s ghost gun rule.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) told Breitbart News that he has an amendment prepared to defund the ATF’s proposed universal background check rule.

Judge Daniel L. Hovland denied the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the ATF’s pistol stabilizer brace rule.

Special Counsel David Weiss indicted President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, on felony firearm charges Thursday.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is asking the ATF to explain a surge in revoked FFLs and suggesting it has overstepped the law.

Rep. Matt Gaetz is blasting Joe Biden’s ATF for allegedly retaliating against an FFL who is also a Congressional witness.

The White House released a Fact Sheet on the universal background check rule announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Thursday, describing the rule as “life-saving.”

Joe Biden’s ATF announced a proposed rule Thursday requiring universal background checks, which Congress has rejected for more than 20 years.

Federal Firearm License holders are accusing President Biden of targeting them after his administration revoked 122 licenses in the last fiscal year. 

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, is cheering executive gun controls expected to come from the Biden Administration soon. 

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down a decision Tuesday reversing a district court order rejecting a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) pistol brace rule and remanding the case to the district court for reconsideration.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court decision against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) “partially complete” pistol frame rule.

On Wednesday, the Houston office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives tweeted a photo of ATF Austin agents at the gun range, and the photo appears to show an agent on the wrong side of the loading table with at least one gun pointed at him.

A federal judge in the United States District Court Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division vacated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF’s) ‘partially complete’ percent pistol frame rule on Friday.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Border Patrol agents seized guns, ammunition, and cash being smuggled toward Mexico.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed Republicans are trying to legalize firearms that have been banned for 100 years. 

The Senate failed on Thursday to pass a resolution to block the AR-pistol stabilizer brace rule after Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Jon Tester (D-MT) sided with the ATF instead of their red state constituents.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) voted against blocking the ATF’s AR-pistol stabilizer brace rule Thursday although she was elected to office by the most gun-friendly state in the Union. 

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) reacted to the Department of Justice’s plea deal with Hunter Biden by noting that Hunter was given a pass on things for which lawful American gun owners would be punished.

President Joe Biden claimed AR-pistol stabilizer braces make pistols shoot “higher caliber” bullets during the Safer Communities Summit.

Montana AG Austin Knudsen told Breitbart News on Saturday that armed IRS agents rolled into a Great Falls gun store Wednesday and seized dozens of boxes of ATF background check forms containing information on gun purchasers.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) sat down with Breitbart News to discuss H.J. Res. 44 and stressed that House and Senate passage of the resolution sends a “strong message to the courts” as to the intent of Congress regarding short barrel rifles. 

The Republican-run House passed H.J. Res. 44 on Tuesday. The resolution is designed to block the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) AR-pistol stabilizer brace rule.

During a Monday mark-up hearing for H.J. Res. 44, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) defended the ATF AR-pistol stabilizer brace rule but could not explain what the rule does nor how long a prison sentence could be for breaking the rule.

President Biden has made clear he intends to veto H.J. Res. 44, aimed at blocking the ATF’s AR-pistol stabilizer brace rule. 

The spotlight is on Hunter Biden’s purported crime again after the ATF’s St. Paul office reaffirmed the agency’s position that state laws legalizing the recreational use of certain drugs do not remove gun prohibitions against the users of said drugs as long as federal law continues to identify the drugs as illegal.