FORT WORTH, TX –-(AmmoLand.com)- Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has filed a new lawsuit challenging the ATF’s rule that would create new terms and enact a slew of regulations for the agency to enforce, including ones that would treat non-frames and non-receivers as if they were actual frames and receivers of weapons. The complaint in VanDerStok v. Garland can be viewed at FPCLegal.org.
“The Final Rule defies the plain language of the [Gun Control Act] and longstanding agency interpretation suggesting that the items at issue here, sometimes colloquially referred to as receiver blanks, unfinished frames or receivers, or 80% frames or receivers, are not firearms,” says the complaint. “Through this rulemaking, however, the Agencies are attempting to create a broad, sweeping definition by including items that are not yet the ‘frames or receivers’ of such weapons and by including ‘frame or receiver kits.’”
“Neither the president nor any federal agency has the power to make law,” said FPC’s Senior Attorney for Constitutional Litigation Cody J. Wisniewski. “The Constitution is clear–Congress has the power to make law, and the Executive Branch is limited to enforcing that law.”0
But here, President Biden openly admitted that he would circumvent Congress and have the DOJ and ATF issue new regulations that go well beyond congressionally-established law and seek to greatly expand the ATF’s reach.”
“FPC will not stand idly by while the federal government tramples the rights of peaceable individuals through agency rulemaking.”
VanDerStok v Garland Complaint
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congress abdicating its authority to an unelected bureaucracy is the greatest problem our country has faced and if facing. they do this so they won’t have to take the blame when bad sh!t happens and then they can promise to fix it so they can keep on campaigning for next election cycle. hence, there should be term-limits for everyone in government. no one was meant spend their whole life working in a government job, sucking off the taxpayers. if congress did its job correctly and governed like they are charged to do, there would be less stupid laws to be… Read more »
Progressive New Left thinking in a nutshell: “It depends upon what the definition of ‘is’ is.” Willy Jeff Clinton.
Magical thinking equals nebulous public policy. Nebulous public policy and fluid law equals tyranny in lieu of justice. Tyranny in lieu of justice equals totalitarianism.
This is where the Progressive New Left globalist masters of the once-Democratic Party are taking this country.
Criminals are in charge of every branch of our government , DC needs cleaned out completely. They are pushing the country to the brink of civil war . This shit is going to blow up in thier face real soon I have the feeling .
I have said this over and over with no dignified response from anybody. where is “WE THE PEOPLE” this country is going to shit in a hand basket, but yet I still see no signs of “WE THE PEOPLE”. we all need to unit and remove this tyrannical government regime running the United states into the ground. they have done nothing but go against the very foundation of what this country was founded on. besides the fact of ignoring the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution. doing whatever they want regardless of what the Constitution says. infringing on our rights… Read more »
Like it or not, remember to thank Trump for this. The recent ATF attacks on pistol braces and 80% is just following the path he created when he directed the ATF to find a way to make bumpstocks illegal. He also failed to give us a director of the ATF that would help firearms owners & FFLs instead of constantly seeking ways to make more criminals.
The Biden administration continues to to act on its own violating the US constitution, Our DOJ has shown that the law now means the law according to them not the laws passed by the supreme court. I understand treason and what it would take to remove Joe Biden and the whole Biden administration for the willful acts used against us the American people who did not not vote for democrats. You will never change my mind that the 2020 election was on the up and up or the NJ governor was elected again fairly. He continues the reign of terror… Read more »