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After nearly three months of silence, the U.S. Government has now appealed the June 13, 2024, pistol brace decision to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. 

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation on Monday designed to simplify the purchase rules related to firearm suppressors.

Judge Reed O’Connor decided against another ATF rule Tuesday, vacating the agency’s rule classifying forced reset triggers as “machineguns.”

The Supreme Court overturned Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council, which federal agencies have relied on for gun control.

CLAIM: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) used a post on X Tuesday to claim that Donald Trump refused to ban bump stocks. 

President Biden reacted to SCOTUS’s bump stock decision by asking Congress to pass legislation to ban the firearm accessories.

In 2017 the ATF Association sent a letter to lawmakers informing them that the ATF had approved bump stocks because they do not turn a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun.

Attaching a bump stock to a rifle does not make it a machine gun, and thus the federal agency ban on bump stocks is illegal under federal law, the Supreme Court held on Friday.

On Friday the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the ATF’s ban on firearm accessories commonly known as bump stocks. 

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor vacated the ATF’s AR pistol brace rule, noting that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

Gun Owners of America, the State of Texas, and Gun Owners Foundation secured a preliminary injunction against the ATF’s background check rule.

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk who issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) lasting until June 2, 2024, against the ATF’s background check rule has extended the TRO to June 16, 2024.

The trial for Hunter Biden’s three alleged gun crimes begins Tuesday and the penalties for some of the allegations include jail time and steep fines. 

ATF Director Steven Dettelbach could not define a precise threshold for when private citizens are considered “engaged in the business” of selling guns during a House Judiciary hearing on Thursday.

Rep. Matt Gaetz roasted ATF Director Steven Dettelbach for referencing Sen. John Cornyn as a trustworthy Second Amendment source. 

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will hold a hearing on Wednesday, May 22, examining overreach by the ATF.

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk issued a temporary restraining order on May 19, 2024, against the ATF’s universal background check rule.

Forty-five Republican senators have put forward a resolution intended to block the ATF’s universal background check rule.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) spoke exclusively with Breitbart News about his plans to introduce a resolution Thursday to make the ATF’s universal background check rule of “no force or effect.” 

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk granted the GOA’s request for an “expedited briefing” on the ATF’s background check rule.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing Biden’s ATF over the new rule requiring background checks on private gun sales. 

Background checks at states around the country are surging as the Democrats and their willing surrogates continue to push gun control at all levels of government. 

The ATF’s background check rule changes the definition of “dealer” to now include people who smuggle guns into other countries to sell them.

The Texan pointed out on Thursday that the ATF’s new background check rule is occurring “under a law from Sen. John Cornyn.”

Kamala Harris posted a video to X on Thursday in which she praised the ATF’s proposed rule forcing background checks on private gun sales.

A proposed rule from the ATF will force private gun sellers to use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to sell their guns.

President Joe Biden boasted Thursday morning as another executive gun control — the ATF’s expanded background check rule — stood poised to take effect.

The ATF’s National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment undermines the left’s long-standing hysteria over the “gun show loophole.”

United States District Court Judge Sam A. Lindsay enjoined the ATF from enforcing its pistol brace rule against NRA members on March 29, 2024.

Freshman House Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) is heading up the Democrats’ latest gun control push by seeking to ban “zombie guns.”

Kyle Rittenhouse posted a video to X in which he blasted ATF “gun expert” Chris Bort for failing to fieldstrip a Glock handgun during a recent Face the Nation appearance. 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF’s) Chris Bort tried to show Face the Nation how easy it was to assemble a “ghost gun” but never managed to make the parts fit together.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is introducing legislation to protect FFLs from the ATF’s weaponized “zero tolerance” policy.

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.

Firearm suppressors are legal to own in over 40 states, and they deliver advantages to the target shooter, the hunter, and the environment as well.

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