27 states press SCOTUS to halt Biden ATF’s ‘blatant attack’ on gun owners, claiming end-run around Congress Fox News
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WestVirginiaandMontanaled27statesWednesdaythatfiledanamicusbriefwiththeSupremeCourturgingthecourtto“reinin”theBidenadministration’snewframeorreceiverrule.
Thestates,throughtheirattorneysgeneral,allegedtheBureauofAlcohol,Tobacco,FirearmsandExplosives’newruleessentiallybroadeningthedefinitionof“firearm”toincludegunparts(likeframesandreceivers)isan“overreach.”
“[W]hentheCourtencountersanotherATFregulationofferingapurportedlycreativesolutiontoalong-standingproblem,itshouldbewary,”thefilingstates.Therulehasalsobeencharacterizedasa“ghostgun”crackdown.
“Andinthisbrief,Amici(party)StatesdescribesomeofthespecificmachinationsATFhasusedinthepasttogettoitsdesiredresults—erasingordinarymeaning,strippingw