So last night, Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy scored a MASSIVE victory over the ATF & #illegitimate Biden Regime. Last night, the US Northern District of TX Federal Court ruled that the ATF’s ‘frame & receiver’ so-called ‘rule’ was NULL & VOID.
Let’s dive into this exciting case and its implications! This case primarly was a plaintiff, Jennifer VanDerStock represented by FPC in a lawsuit to challenge the ATF’s rule stating that 80% frames & receivers that are pejoratively called ‘Ghost Guns’ by the anti-gun extremists &
..the Left. They are only 80% machined & require the buyer to perform the remaining 20% machining to turn into a gun.
This is a key distinction—
an 80% frame or receiver as it’s made is incapable of being turned into a working firearm until the remaining machining is performed. The ATF in its rule, responding to a direct order to ATF Director Steve Dettlebach, himself an Anti-gun Extremist...
..ordered the ATF to find a way to limit/ban ‘ghost guns’.
Biden himself famously committed a felony by possessing a Polymer80 made 80% Glock frame & jig and complete slide kit. Within the DC city limits, possession is a Felony. Fast forward to the 23 second mark in this video to see Joe Biden commit a felony.
That's right, in his PR Stunt announcing the rule, Joe Biden committed a felony on live TV.
Several people reached out to the ATF and the US Secret Service including @emilymillerdc asking how this kit was acquired, who smuggled it into the white house and who gave it to Joe Biden for his PR stunt, but none of these agencies returned repeated emails or calls.
@EmilyMillerDC But i degress, let's move on.
@EmilyMillerDC The #illegitimate Biden White House was taking a LOT of heat for Biden’s failure to force gun bans through congress & the pressure resulting in Biden’s handlers ordering ATF to simply CREATE new laws that they called ‘rules’ to ban/restrict the items at the top of...
@EmilyMillerDC ...the anti-gun enterprise’s list: Bump Stocks, 80% frames & receivers (ghost guns) & Pistol Braces. Bump stocks were famously backdoor banned by then President Donald Trump after the horrific Las Vegas rampage killing.
@EmilyMillerDC He did so by directing the ATF to reclassify them as machine guns, even though they are NOT mechanically anything like a machine gun and unilaterally change the law to add them to the National Firearms Act that requires govt registry of Machine Guns.
@EmilyMillerDC You can read the bump stock ban ATF rule here and how it adds them to the NFA as 'machine guns'. justice.gov/opa/pr/departm…
@EmilyMillerDC Natl Firearms Act, passed in 1935, says that to own a machine gun, or a suppressor, or a short-barreled rifle or shotgun, you must register it with the Federal Government (ATF) & pay a $200 tax for a govt-provided stamp authorizing you to possess/own it.
@EmilyMillerDC From this point on in this thread, I’ll refer to the National Firearms Act of 1935 as the NFA.
@EmilyMillerDC Back in the ‘30’s, this was a huge financial roadblock and took these items out of the reach of ordinary citizens. Because of devaluation of US Currency and inflation that’s not so anymore. Sorry, it was 1934 not 1935. nraila.org/get-the-facts/…
@EmilyMillerDC MANY people balk at registering anything with the government. In light of FBI and DOJ abuses that have become public can you blame them? So illegally adding a device that millions already legally own to NFA & putting them at risk of 10 yrs in prison & a $250,00 fine is a big deal
@EmilyMillerDC So what does that have to do w VanDerStock v Garland? I’m glad you asked! The bumpstock ban was the FIRST action of three where ATF simply REWROTE the NFA & GCA that defines what machine guns, frames/receivers, completed guns, gun parts, etc are.
@EmilyMillerDC In very technical terms & language congress spelled out what these things are in the NFA of 1934 & GCA of 1968. These are LAWS written & passed by Congress & signed into law by Presidents. Only Congress has the power to RE-write them.
@EmilyMillerDC This point is important & bears repeating: NFA & later the 1968 Gun Control Act, which I’ll refer to from here on as the GCA was passed by both houses of Congress, & signed into law by then President Lyndon B Johnson. It hard codified into LAW what these items were.
Hat 🎩 tip to @gunpolicy for the huge legal win & @Guns_Gadgets for coverage! ATFs frame & receiver over reach is officially dead per Federal Court Ruling tonight! Happy 4th of July early, Patriots!
The ATFs pistol brace ‘rule’ (ban), the ATFs frame/receiver anti ‘ghost gun’ ‘rule’ (ban) & ATFs bumpstock ‘rule’ (ban) were all based on & wildly exceed the agency’s INFERRED powers to determine regulations, are based on Chevron Deference legal precedent, & 2 of 3….
…have ALREADY been permanently BLOCKED by Federal Courts. And its about to get way worse for ATF, EPA & the illegitimate Biden regime. SCOTUS is going to kill Chevron Deference & THAT is going to legally gut the adminstrative state’s ability to abuse their power.
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The cold reality is, Vladimir Putin & the Russian army have a lot more men, & stuff to throw away than Ukraine does: even w/NATO proxy support. Ukraine is running out of men, not Russia. Ukraine is losing NATO armored vehicles faster than NATO can supply them. Sorry thats just…