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Fifth Circuit Issues Preliminary Injunction Blocking Brace Ban Enforcement Against Plaintiffs in Mock v. Garland

For those of you keeping score at home, back in May, a three-judge panel of the Northern District of Texas issued an emergency injunction blocking the ATF from enforcing its new rule effectively banning pistol…

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After Pistol Braces, What’s Next on the ATF’s Hit List?

By Lee Williams  House Republicans tried to stop the massive overreach by unelected bureaucrats at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The ATF has turned more than 40 million law-abiding Americans into felons…


Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Demonstrates the Kind of Legislative Expertise We’ve All Come to Expect

  A veteran can buy a brace any day of the year. We love, admire and respect our veterans. But at the same time, we respect our first responders. Police officers and fire fighters and…


NAGR, NRA Move to Protect Their Members From ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban Enforcement

As we noted earlier, three injunctions currently protect the members of GOA, FPC and SAF from enforcement under the ATF’s new pistol brace rule that effectively bans almost all use of the accessories. The rule…


Injunctions Blocking Enforcement of ATF Pistol Brace Rule Padding Gun Rights Groups’ Membership Rolls

As we noted last week, three court injunctions are currently in place blocking the ATF’s enforcement of its arbitrary about face rule that now regulates previously legal brace-equipped pistols as short barreled rifles under the…


Massive Noncompliance: ATF Says Only 250,000 Braced Pistol Owners Registered Their Guns

In news that comes as a shock to no one, only only a tiny handful of braced pistol owners jumped through the hoops of completing an eForm 1 for braced pistols they owned during the…


Three Injunctions Now Block ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban, Protecting Members of Three Gun Rights Orgs

Last night, Fifth District Court Judge Drew Tipton issued an injunction blocking the ATF’s enforcement of its pistol brace rule that goes into effect today. As with an earlier Fifth Circuit ruling in Mock v….


FPC Restructures Its Membership in the Wake of the Injunction Blocking ATF Pistol Brace Enforcement Ban

Last week, a Fifth Circuit District Judge issued an injunction blocking ATF enforcement of its new pistol brace rule that goes into effect tomorrow. The judge made it clear that the injunction covers all of…