GOA Takes ATF to Court over Draconian Gun Ban<\/strong><\/h2>\nThanks to overwhelming support from GOA members, we filed suit yesterday against the ATF\u2019s pistol brace rule.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\nGun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) jointly filed a\u00a0lawsuit<\/a> with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the Biden Pistol Brace Ban. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.<\/p>\nThis new rule, which took effect on January 31st of this year, will force Americans to register or destroy approximately 40 million of their lawfully owned brace firearms within 120 days, or face possible felony charges.<\/p>\n
The Gun Owners\u2019 lawsuit,\u00a0which can be read here<\/a>, documents how the ATF has waffled on the topic of pistol-braced firearms for almost ten years. Originally, the agency stated that such braces would not convert a pistol into a Short-Barreled Rifle (or SBR). And in 2014, the ATF even stated that if gun owners were to brace such a pistol against one\u2019s shoulder, that would not reclassify the pistol as an SBR.<\/p>\nBut of course, that was then, and this is now. Under the Biden administration, ATF has now revoked or radically altered all of its previous classification letters. And gun owners are now suffering under the \u201cnew normal\u201d\u2014where Joe Biden is dead set on banning as many firearms as he can.<\/p>\n
GOA\u2019s lawsuit is the most comprehensive suit filed, and it spends significant pages explaining why this ATF rule is unconstitutional. You can watch an episode of our Minute Man Moment<\/a> breaking down the eleven ways GOA believes ATF violated federal law and the Constitution by clicking the thumbnail below.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/votervoice.s3.amazonaws.com\/groups\/gunowners\/images\/image(236).png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nOur complaint makes clear that the agency\u2019s rule violates the Second Amendment \u201ctext, history and tradition\u201d standard set forth by the Supreme Court in its recent Bruen<\/i> case. And we also show how the gun ban violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution\u2014not to mention that it\u2019s an invalid exercise of the federal government\u2019s taxing power.<\/p>\n
Ken Paxton, who is the Texas Attorney General and co-plaintiff with GOA and GOF, blasted the ATF for its capricious rule.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is absolutely no legal basis for ATF\u2019s haphazard decision to try to change the long-standing classification for stabilizing braces, force registration on Americans, and then throw them in jail for ten years if they don\u2019t quickly comply,\u201d Paxton stated.<\/p>\n
GOA Fighting Legal Battles from Coast to Coast<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) jointly filed a\u00a0lawsuit<\/a> with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the Biden Pistol Brace Ban. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.<\/p>\n This new rule, which took effect on January 31st of this year, will force Americans to register or destroy approximately 40 million of their lawfully owned brace firearms within 120 days, or face possible felony charges.<\/p>\n The Gun Owners\u2019 lawsuit,\u00a0which can be read here<\/a>, documents how the ATF has waffled on the topic of pistol-braced firearms for almost ten years. Originally, the agency stated that such braces would not convert a pistol into a Short-Barreled Rifle (or SBR). And in 2014, the ATF even stated that if gun owners were to brace such a pistol against one\u2019s shoulder, that would not reclassify the pistol as an SBR.<\/p>\n But of course, that was then, and this is now. Under the Biden administration, ATF has now revoked or radically altered all of its previous classification letters. And gun owners are now suffering under the \u201cnew normal\u201d\u2014where Joe Biden is dead set on banning as many firearms as he can.<\/p>\n GOA\u2019s lawsuit is the most comprehensive suit filed, and it spends significant pages explaining why this ATF rule is unconstitutional. You can watch an episode of our Minute Man Moment<\/a> breaking down the eleven ways GOA believes ATF violated federal law and the Constitution by clicking the thumbnail below.<\/p>\n Our complaint makes clear that the agency\u2019s rule violates the Second Amendment \u201ctext, history and tradition\u201d standard set forth by the Supreme Court in its recent Bruen<\/i> case. And we also show how the gun ban violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution\u2014not to mention that it\u2019s an invalid exercise of the federal government\u2019s taxing power.<\/p>\n Ken Paxton, who is the Texas Attorney General and co-plaintiff with GOA and GOF, blasted the ATF for its capricious rule.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is absolutely no legal basis for ATF\u2019s haphazard decision to try to change the long-standing classification for stabilizing braces, force registration on Americans, and then throw them in jail for ten years if they don\u2019t quickly comply,\u201d Paxton stated.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nGOA Fighting Legal Battles from Coast to Coast<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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