
PITTSBURGH, PA -(Ammoland.com)- JSD Supply has filed for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) (embedded below) against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Last Thursday, May 12, 2022, the ATF served JSD Supply a cease-and-desist order demanding the company stop selling unfinished frames and firearm parts.
The ATF claimed that by selling these parts, the company was selling unserialized firearms by “structuring” the purchases. JSD Supply did not sell complete kits, but the Bureau said if someone bought an 80% frame and then bought another part from the company in the future that the company would be guilty of selling guns without a federal firearms license (FFL).
JSD Supply pulled down its website out of an abundance of caution and contacted its attorney, Rob Olson. Mr. Olson is the lawyer of note in the federal bump stock case the US Supreme Court is considering taking up and as Chief Legal Counsel for Gun Owners of America (GOA). Mr. Olson reached out to the ATF to get clarity on what they can and can’t sell on their website.
ATF Associate Chief Counsel Jeffrey Cohen and ATF Philadelphia field office Counsel Regina Drayton returned Mr. Olson’s call the next day. Mr. Olson pointed to the vagueness of the letter and how the letter reference complete kits that JSD Supply did not sell.
Two years earlier, Polymer80 and other companies were visited by the ATF for selling “buy, build, shoot” kits. The ATF considered those items to be firearms.
The ATF would not clarify what the company was allowed to sell, although the ATF did state that taking several parts off of the website would not be enough to satisfy the ATF since the parts are “easily available.” When asked if the company could still sell parts and take down the 80% kits, the ATF refused to say if that would comply with the cease-and-desist order.
The ATF lawyers seem to contradict the cease-and-desist order and could offer no clear answer.
The ATF told Mr. Olson to rely on ATF Final Rule 2021R-05F for guidance in the matter. That rule does not go into effect until August. Moreover, the cease-and-desist letter says that the ATF conclusion was independent of the new privately manufactured firearms (PFM) rule.
While trying to work with the ATF to figure out what they could sell until the company could challenge the ATF in federal court, it came to the attention of everyone involved that another seller was served with a similar cease-and-desist order. The JSD Supply legal team decided the best bet was to file for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in the Western Direct of Pennsylvania against the ATF to block the restraining order.
JSD Supply’s legal team claims that the ATF does not have the authority to arbitrarily shut down the company by using a vague cease-and-desist letter. They also claim that the ATF does not have the power to issue a cease-and-desist order over the selling of unfinished frames. The legal team asks the courts to block the ATF from enforcing the cease-and-desist order.
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JSD Supply Files Temporary Restraining Order Against ATF May 2022
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The BATFE has long had way yonder too much power and authority, with very little resistance and practically no repercussions. The agency operates as if there is no 2nd amendment to the Constitution. It makes one wonder why there are currently 535 voting members of the United States Congress, plus the VP when necessary, and yet the agency appears to be allowed to enforce it’s decisions without superior sanction. Maybe it isn’t required, but maybe this attempt will encourage more transparency.
“…..would not be enough to satisfy the ATF since the parts are “easily available.” See where this is going. Buy a single part…..maybe a single generic screw, ATF says you have bought an unserialized firearm as “parts are easily available.” Trust them, they will know a violation when they see it. Tyranny reigns. They continue to do this because we tacitly say “OK. We accept your tyranny. We won’t do anything about it. Carry on.” AS in, not a single shot has been fired in defense of our Freedoms, Liberties, and Rights. The Tree of Liberty is severely parched. Keyboard pounding… Read more »
Our forefathers would already be slinging lead.
I’m curious as to how the BATFE can enforce a regulation (bureaucratic opinion) which does not go into effect (if ever) until August as if it were law already! Come on guys, get the lawsuits running against the over-reach of the federal bureaucrats!
Correct me if I am mistaken;
The “ATF/(AFT-biden)” IS an UNLAWFUL BUREAUCRACY!
It was NOT formed by Congress!
IT was formed by a director in the IRS!
CONGRESS IS the ONLY BODY in OUR American Government which can make OR change laws!
Thus, the ILLEGAL Bureaucracy of the “ATF” MUST be DISMISSED, REMOVED, DISBANDED, EXERCISED from Our Government. ALL of its “rules and directives” must be DELEATED from EVERY LAW BOOK!
This tyranny needs to be stoped and stoped Hard,in the first place the AFT doesn’t write law, only congress can write law.
Second place the AFT is not a Constitutionally authorized agency along with all the other alphabet agencies.