COGNITIVE DISSONANCE ALERT: Federal Agency That Banned Device Designed for Disabled Shooters Celebrates Disability Employment Awareness Month

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month! #ATF recognizes the importance of ensuring everyone has equal opportunity to contribute their skills and talents. This year’s #NDEAM theme is “Advancing Access and Equity.” More at https://t.co/bk87ZfaBU0. #RehabAct50 pic.twitter.com/Cw66GIP0ox — ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) October 4, 2023 That clicking sound you hear is our cognitive dissonance meter pegging … Read more

Fifth Circuit Issues Preliminary Injunction Blocking Brace Ban Enforcement Against Plaintiffs in Mock v. Garland

For those of you keeping score at home, back in May, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction blocking the ATF from enforcing its new rule effectively banning pistol stabilizing braces. This was after a lower court judge concluded that the plaintiffs weren’t likely to prevail on the … Read more

Fifth Circuit Rules Challenges to ATF Pistol Brace Rule Will Likely Succeed, Leaves Injunction Blocking Enforcement in Place

Yesterday the three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the ATF is likely to lose when the lawsuits challenging their pistol brace ban are fully heard and left the injunctions blocking enforcement in place. ATF zigged and zagged on the use braces for years. A number of injunctions have been issued … Read more

After Earlier Injunctions, the NRA Sues the ATF Over Pistol Brace Ban

If, like us, you were mostly unplugged over the extended four-day holiday, you might have missed the news that the National Rifle Association has filed its own lawsuit against the ATF challenging the regulatory agency’s pistol brace ban rule. This follows three other gun rights orgs’ similar suits and the injunctions that have been issued … Read more

After Pistol Braces, What’s Next on the ATF’s Hit List?

By Lee Williams  House Republicans tried to stop the massive overreach by unelected bureaucrats at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The ATF has turned more than 40 million law-abiding Americans into felons overnight. That’s because the normal operation of our constitutional republic has been perverted by a doddering old buffoon who would … Read more

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Demonstrates the Kind of Legislative Expertise We’ve All Come to Expect

  A veteran can buy a brace any day of the year. We love, admire and respect our veterans. But at the same time, we respect our first responders. Police officers and fire fighters and others who are on the front lines. Or former combat veterans who say we don’t need automatic weapons in the … Read more

NAGR, NRA Move to Protect Their Members From ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban Enforcement

As we noted earlier, three injunctions currently protect the members of GOA, FPC and SAF from enforcement under the ATF’s new pistol brace rule that effectively bans almost all use of the accessories. The rule went into effect June 1 and, predictably, very few brace owners elected to comply with the law during the designated … Read more

Injunctions Blocking Enforcement of ATF Pistol Brace Rule Padding Gun Rights Groups’ Membership Rolls

As we noted last week, three court injunctions are currently in place blocking the ATF’s enforcement of its arbitrary about face rule that now regulates previously legal brace-equipped pistols as short barreled rifles under the NFA. The three cases in question were brought by, among others, three gun rights organizations; the Firearms Policy Coalition, Gun … Read more