The two prosecutors and the ATF’s Bodell tried to penalize Adamiak for the flats, despite a 15-year-old ruling that says the flats are not firearms. The judge in that case even ruled, “The court finds that…selling flats is not illegal conduct.”
The modern gun control industry relies on the free or reduced cost legal labor, called pro bono work, that firms provide to advocacy groups and individual plaintiffs. Trump’s actions against Big Law are threatening that pipeline.
I imagine if Trump (or any other President for that matter) ignores SCOTUS after a Snope denial, the response from much of the pro-2A side will be, “Good. They wouldn’t defend our rights, why should we give a shit about them being ignored?”
The purpose of such lawsuits, orchestrated by Everytown for Gun Safety, is to destroy America’s lawful firearm industry. Making a mockery of PLCAA, not to mention the Second Amendment, is the game that’s being played.
You’re probably thinking, ‘Wait, what about the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act? Doesn’t that protect firearms manufacturers from liability when their highly regulated, lawfully produces and sold products are later used by criminals?’
The lawsuit stemmed from a June 14, 2017 editorial, “America’s Lethal Politics,” that wrongly suggested Palin may have incited a January 2011 mass shooting in an Arizona parking lot.
In an environment where some of the left seems to be embracing political violence, committing terrible crimes to influence a Court ruling wouldn’t be all that surprising.
While claiming that a magazine that holds over ten rounds is not an arm, the majority asserts that a magazine that holds ten or less is an arm because it “is necessary to the ordinary operation” of the firearm “as intended.”
The lawsuit was filed on the basis that the tax is unconstitutional because it does not pass a “means-end” test handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2022 Bruen decision.
Sheriff Luna may try to slow walk the federal investigators’ progress and keep them from finding and reporting the truth, which would be futile. What Bondi didn’t say is that the Special Litigation Section has never lost a case—not a single one.
