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If the Courts do not strike down Trump’s action, we will continue to see the inexorable whittling away of the right of the people to keep and bear arms, leading inevitably to the demise of civilian ow
Donald Trump May Act Rashly on Some Matters and Avoid Repercussions; Not So, When He Blatantly Attacks the Second Amendment.
News headlines say that the BATFE has banned “bump stocks.” What are bump stocks and what does this mean?
Gun Owners of America (GOA) and its Foundation (GOF) filed suit today against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) for their regulations on bump stocks.
As NRA-ILA’s Executive Director Chris Cox noted only days after our statement was issued, “We don’t believe that bans have ever worked on anything.”
The bump-stock issue has been mishandled from the beginning, and now it has turned into a serious matter while blowing a gaping hole in our future defense of the Second Amendment.
This week, with the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump took a bolder Gun Control step than President Obama ever did. And, he’s done it with the protection of the NRA.
An injunction will be filed in a federal court to stop implementation of the bump-stock ban until there has been a ruling on the merits of the lawsuit. We don’t want people destroying their stocks…
Get caught in violation and prepare to have your life destroyed through arrest, prosecution, incarceration and a lifetime ban on owning guns.
Trump’s willingness to bypass Congress to put many good Americans, (many who no doubt voted for him) in the crosshairs of zealous law enforcement and prosecutors is frighting.
ATF’s new bump stock regulation clearly violates federal law, as bump stocks do not qualify as machineguns under the federal statute.
Today, the Department of Justice has amended the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), clarifying that bump stocks fall within the definition of “machinegun”.
Anyone who thinks this is “just about bump stocks” is missing the point.
A lawsuit was filed to challenge the Handgun Qualification License requirement & State Police regs that ban Maryland residents from purchasing a handgun unless they jump through training, fingerprinti
Last week, a federal Judge for the District of Nevada issued an order dismissing a class action lawsuit against Slide Fire Solutions, makers of the notorious bump-fire stock.
ATF was “not allowed to physically examine the interior of the weapons” recovered from the Las Vegas shooter’s hotel room…
The comment period for the Bump Stock proposal closed on June 27, 2018. This bulletin provides an update on the progress made by ATF in reviewing the comments and the process for issuing a final rule.
Lawyers for a non-partisan, grassroots gun rights group have filed a nine-hundred and twenty-three-page comment against the ATF proposed bump stock ban and explain in detail why it is illegal. ~ VIDEO
“The [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking] scheme is fatally flawed,” Savage demonstrates.
Failure to comply gets you a felony and up to 30 years in prison under one proposal. That’s higher than 2nd degree murder and comparable to 1st degree murder.
ATF wants to change the language defining a Machine gun to include “Bump-Stock Type Devices” by wrongly claiming that “these devices convert an otherwise semiautomatic firearm into a machinegun” …
Unfortunately, even under this administration, the executive branch continues to legislate through administrative regulations, including the prohibition of firearm parts..
If implemented, this is a true ban, which classifies bump stocks as machine guns! No grandfathering of existing items. They must be destroyed or turned over to the police,.
These are non-negotiable terms of surrender, dictated by a “pro-gun” president, a “pro-gun” attorney general, and enabled by our “gun rights leaders.”
The proposal does not at this time ban bump stocks. Bump stocks will be banned only if DOJ publishes a final rule adopting the proposals outlined in the notice…
Current possessors of bump-stock-type devices would be required to surrender, destroy, or otherwise render the devices permanently inoperable.
On Friday, March 23, 2018, Attorney General Sessions announced that the ATF is set to publish proposed rulemaking to classify bump-stocks as machineguns.
In a press conference today, President Donald Trump said that, “I don’t care of Congress does it or not, I’m writing [so-called ‘bump stocks’] out myself.”
For those of you who don;t think “a bump stock is worth fighting for” let us clue you in a little as to what will happen if this is put up as a sacrificial lamb
If President Trump’s goal is to ban bump stocks, that is a gross infringement of 2A rights. GOA has long warned that such a ban can easily be applied to triggers, magazines, or semi-automatic firearms
