Firearms law, ATF rulemaking, court decisions, and federal and state legislation affecting lawful gun ownership and the industry.
The Department of Justice is drafting a replacement ATF frames and receivers rule, reversing its position from less than a week earlier when it said the Biden-era regulation would stay in place.
GOA Senior VP Erich Pratt formally asked the DOJ Inspector General to investigate after ATF lawyers exposed a gun owner's NFA records and tax data on a public court docket — twice.
The DOJ asked the Fifth Circuit to dismiss its appeal of the injunction blocking ATF's private-sale rule — a win for GOA and four state AGs.
Virginia Gov. Spanberger signed HB 40 with no grandfather clause while the DOJ threatened litigation over the companion assault-firearms bill, HB 217.
Judge Roger Benitez, author of Duncan v. Bonta and Miller v. Bonta, retired April 2 from the Southern District of California, leaving both cases unresolved.
ATF reversed plans to issue a new frames-and-receivers rule, telling VanDerStok plaintiffs the 2022 Biden-era regulation stays in place.
DOJ told VanDerStok and Defense Distributed plaintiffs April 8 it will keep ATF Final Rule 2021R-05F, the Biden-era ghost gun rule, in place.