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Arkansas state senators are demanding a DOJ investigation into the 2024 ATF raid that killed Bryan Malinowski, raising questions about tactics, body cameras, notice, and the agency’s “engaged in the business” enforcement.
ATF’s new reform package targets pistol braces, bump stocks, FFL paperwork, NFA travel rules, CLEO notices, and other regulatory burdens on gun owners and firearm businesses. It is real progress, but gun owners should read the fine print.
Gun owners do not want Biden’s ATF rulebook cleaned up and handed to the next anti-gun administration. They want the frames-and-receivers rule repealed, the pistol brace trap buried, the “engaged in the business” rule rescinded, zero tolerance permanently ended, and ATF’s backdoor gun registry destroyed.
The Department of Justice has moved to dismiss Texas v. ATF, a landmark challenge to the Biden administration’s “engaged in the business” rule. Gun rights advocates say the move marks a major victory for private gun sales, collectors, and hobbyists who feared the ATF’s expanded dealer definition would criminalize ordinary conduct.
A federal judge in Alabama has paused Butler v. Bondi, the NRA-backed challenge to ATF’s 2024 “engaged in the business” rule, until the Senate votes on ATF Director nominee Robert Cekada.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a significant order in a high-profile Second Amendment lawsuit, denying the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request to delay proceedings further.
A federal judge in Alabama has ruled that portions of the ATF’s 2024 Final Rule on firearm dealing exceed the agency’s statutory authority.
The DOJ is prepared to defend the ATF’s “engaged in the business” rule despite the President’s executive order on Second Amendment cases.
Epstein has been at the heart of what a lot of the pro-gun community considers problems. He was the author of the “engaged in the business” (EIB) rule, which many consider backdoor gun control.
DOJ press release on April 7, 2025, included a review of Final Rule 2022R-17F, the definition of what it means to be “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms.
An Alaskan jury acquitted a man accused by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of running a gun store without a federal firearms license (FFL).
A federal judge in Texas has issued a Preliminary Injunction (PI) against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) from enforcing its Final Rule about being engaged in the business of selling firearms.
ATF agents occupied Malinowski’s home for over 12 hours and according to court documents, confiscated more than just firearms and ammunition.
