That\u2019s why Gun Owners Foundation and Gun Owners of America intervened on the store\u2019s behalf and filed a lawsuit challenging the ATF\u2019s Zero Tolerance FFL policy.<\/span><\/p>\n But this isn\u2019t just one store that GOA is defending. We are suing on behalf of thousands of gun stores around the country to combat this ATF abuse.<\/p>\n If these freedom-sucking leeches can get away with retaliating against pro-2A businesses like this \u2013 and drive them out of business \u2013 we can only imagine what they\u2019ll one day do to retaliate against everyday gun owners like YOU.<\/p>\n With the ATF going to extreme lengths to CRUSH any opposition to their anti-gun agenda, they\u2019re going to spare no expense to win this case.<\/p>\n As we prepare to incur tens of thousands of dollars in legal costs to take on the ATF and their swamp-funded lawyers in court yet again, we have no choice but to ask for your support.<\/span><\/p>\n Please make a tax-deductible contribution to Gun Owners Foundation\u2019s Legal Defense Fund to help us beat the freedom-crushing tyrants at the ATF in court.<\/a><\/p>\n In 2022, the Biden Administration subtly changed the definition of what constitutes a \u201cwillful\u201d violation to allow the ATF to revoke a gun store\u2019s license after a single minor paperwork error.<\/p>\n You may remember that GOA leaked internal ATF documents earlier this year detailing how the agency deliberately obscured this rule change to increase the number of license revocations.<\/p>\n As soon as the rule change was made, the ATF declared war on gun owners by using the new Zero Tolerance policy to put gun dealers out of business over minor record-keeping errors.<\/p>\n The ATF is even revoking FFLs for the exact same kind of record-keeping mistakes that they frequently make themselves!<\/p>\n Why should law-abiding FFLs be held to a higher standard than the ATF bureaucrats?<\/em><\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, this policy caused FFL revocations to skyrocket to a 16-year high.<\/p>\n As if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, the ATF has now gone even further by weaponizing this policy to shutter a gun store that had previously sued the agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n Last summer, Morehouse Enterprises (which does business as Bridge City Ordnance) joined us in a separate lawsuit against the ATF challenging their Frame, Receiver and Registration Rule.<\/p>\n Just a month after they joined us in that suit, the ATF initiated their first-ever inspection of Morehouse.<\/p>\n Out of thousands of transactions, they discovered a few minor errors:<\/p>\n None of these errors were deliberate. None of them resulted in someone acquiring a firearm who was not legally permitted to do so or posed any sort of threat to public safety.<\/p>\n It\u2019s pretty clear that the ATF was grasping at straws.<\/p>\n Yet the ATF informed Morehouse that, as a result of Biden\u2019s Zero Tolerance policy, they would have their FFLs revoked.<\/p>\n Where there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire: This was politically-motivated retaliation by the ATF, and we cannot allow them to get away with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is only the latest example of the Biden Administration weaponizing federal agencies against their political enemies.<\/p>\n And the double standard is appalling\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n While Hunter Biden gets a slap on the wrist for LYING on a federal background check to purchase a gun, the Biden Administration throws the book at gun stores for clerical errors.<\/p>\n This politically motivated targeting of gun dealers is yet another compelling piece of evidence to support our demand that Congress defund the ATF.<\/p>\n But we can\u2019t simply sit around waiting for Congress to act.<\/p>\n Which is why Gun Owners Foundation is taking the fight to the ATF in court to STOP this draconian Zero Tolerance FFL policy that is ripe for further abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n The ATF may seem like a powerful force.<\/p>\n But they pale in comparison to the power of millions of grassroots gun owners like YOU who will fight alongside us to defend the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/contributedefensefund-300x47.png\")
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