This entire scheme is the spawn of John Cornyn’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, drafted with anti-gun Democrat Chris Murphy. Cornyn handed Biden the legislative keys to create a backdoor registry — and Bondi is keeping it alive.
The lawsuit is damning, almost beyond belief. None of the DOJ officials involved were willing to discuss it. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsey Mitcham Lorence, who is defending the ATF in the lawsuit, was unwilling to talk Wednesday morning.
ATF has credited President Trump’s Feb. 7, 2025, executive order Protecting Second Amendment Rights as the basis for terminating zero tolerance, implementing a fairer enforcement policy, and reexamining the prior adverse licensing actions.
The problem with this strategy is it would require some regulatory and legal 4D chess. It isn’t clear that the Trump 2.0 administration would be willing or capable of playing at that level.
The [ATF’s ‘engaged in the business] rule was scheduled to take effect Monday. It required anyone who sells a gun
Gun Owners of America and the Gun Owners Foundation have helped secure a temporary restraining order against the Biden ATF’s
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of Republican states in suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
From the Second Amendment Foundation The Biden administration’s new rule to expand background check requirements for private gun sales amounts
