Fire Them!
DOJ, ATF Ignoring Trump's EO Rescinding Biden's Unconstitutional Anti-2A Policy
The Department of Justice is currently pursuing criminal charges in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, for possession of a handgun equipped with a pistol stabilizing brace, in the case US v. Taranto.
In response, Gun Owners of America and our friends at the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition (FRAC) are urging the Department of Justice to drop that charge, which sets a dangerous precedent for the millions of Americans who possess up to 40 million such firearms.
In 2021, the communist Biden regime tasked the ATF with targeting and cracking down on firearms equipped with accessories known as "pistol braces."
For years, ATF approved the devices for use on pistols of all kinds, and promised that the mere attachment of such accessories to handguns did not transform them into short-barreled rifles. That was until the Biden regime decided to target pistol braces for elimination at the behest of Anti-American billionaire donors. To do this, ATF decided to reclassify virtually all pistols with stabilizing braces as "short-barreled rifles" falling under the regulation of the 1934 National Firearms Act and requiring registration.
But thanks to numerous lawsuits from groups like Gun Owners of America, FRAC, and others, Biden's pistol brace rule is currently enjoined by numerous courts and even vacated by one.
Translation from legalese? Biden's rule is no longer in effect, and ATF has been ordered not to enforce it.
But this hasn't stopped anti-gun bureaucrats at ATF from attempting to continue to enforce the underlying legal theories that inspired the rule in the first place.
Taranto was charged with numerous offenses but, interestingly, according to his inditement, Taranto's pistol is charged as both a handgun, in violation of Washington DC's licensing provisions, and also a short-barreled rifle, in violation of the National Firearms Act. How can a firearm be both a rifle and a handgun at the same time?
The answer is, of course, that it isn't, and the DOJ's internally conflicting position shows that the government is using the NFA charge for a sinister reason and may be a sign of a much larger problem.
We are hopeful that, thanks to President Trump's executive order on protecting Second Amendment rights, this charge will be dismissed, thereby protecting millions of law-abiding gun owners from continuing ATF overreach.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/man-cz-scorpion-charged-pistol-brace-ownership-may-set-dangerous-precedent