Is this something?
I think perhaps it is at that, yes.
BREAKING: District Court Vacates Biden Pistol Brace Final Rule
A U.S. District Court in Texas has ruled that the Biden Justice Department’s Final Rule redefining braced pistols as “short-barreled rifles” violates the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) so is therefore unconstitutional.In the lawsuit Mock v. Garland, U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor granted summary judgment in favor of the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and its co-plaintiffs and issued a final judgment and order vacating the DOJ/ATF rule.
At issue wasn’t the constitutionality of the Final Rule under the Second Amendment, but the fact that the APA forbids bureaucratic agencies from making laws, which is the purview of a duly elected Congress. The district court ruled that the DOJ and ATF have no such power.
“The Defendants’ disregard for the principles of fair notice and consideration of reliance interests is further exacerbated by its failure to follow the APA’s procedural requirements for public notice and comment,” the ruling states. “As discussed above, Defendants failed to follow proper notice-and-comment procedures because the Proposed Rule and the Final Rule differed in immense ways.”
In the end, the court ruled the federal government didn’t have a legitimate leg to stand on in its defense of the Final Rule.
Taken together with the following USSC decision, it all begins to look like a Big Fuckin’ Deal, to quote some superdoopergenius or other.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Overturns Trump Era Bump Stock Ban
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court has overturned the Trump era ATF’s bump stock ban. The court split along the usual ideological lines. Following the 2017 Mandalay Bay shooting in Las Vegas in which the killer, Stephen Paddock, allegedly used a bump stock, there was momentum in Congress to outlaw them. The Trump administration ordered the ATF to short circuit the pending legislation by reclassifying bump stocks as machine guns, despite the agency’s earlier approval of them as legal semi-automatic accessories.The ban resulted in hundreds of thousands of gun owners being required to destroy or turn in their legally purchased bump stocks…or become felons. A number of lawsuits — including Garland v. Cargill, which the Court ruled on today — were subsequently filed. While the ban was upheld in other circuits, plaintiff Michael Cargill won in the Fifth Circuit where bump stocks have been legal since last year. That set up a circuit court split, virtually ensuring that the Court would hear the case.
As Clarence Thomas, who wrote the Court’s opinion put it...
A bump stock does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machinegun any more than a shooter with a lightning-fast trigger finger does. Even with a bump stock, a semiautomatic rifle will fire only one shot for every “function of the trigger.” So, a bump stock cannot qualify as a machinegun under §5845(b)’s definition.
Wise, learned, brave, articulate, unswervingly devoted to both the letter and the spirit of the US Constitution: what an absolutely priceless gem Justice Thomas is, verily. May God forever bless and keep you, sir. The very best we’ve had in my entire lifetime, and possibly ever, IMHO.