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U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk issued a temporary restraining order on May 19, 2024, against the ATF’s universal background check rule.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) spoke exclusively with Breitbart News about his plans to introduce a resolution Thursday to make the ATF’s universal background check rule of “no force or effect.” 

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk granted the GOA’s request for an “expedited briefing” on the ATF’s background check rule.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing Biden’s ATF over the new rule requiring background checks on private gun sales. 

The ATF’s background check rule changes the definition of “dealer” to now include people who smuggle guns into other countries to sell them.

The Texan pointed out on Thursday that the ATF’s new background check rule is occurring “under a law from Sen. John Cornyn.”

Kamala Harris posted a video to X on Thursday in which she praised the ATF’s proposed rule forcing background checks on private gun sales.

President Joe Biden boasted Thursday morning as another executive gun control — the ATF’s expanded background check rule — stood poised to take effect.

The ATF’s National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment undermines the left’s long-standing hysteria over the “gun show loophole.”

United States District Court Judge Sam A. Lindsay enjoined the ATF from enforcing its pistol brace rule against NRA members on March 29, 2024.

Freshman House Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) is heading up the Democrats’ latest gun control push by seeking to ban “zombie guns.”

Kyle Rittenhouse posted a video to X in which he blasted ATF “gun expert” Chris Bort for failing to fieldstrip a Glock handgun during a recent Face the Nation appearance. 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF’s) Chris Bort tried to show Face the Nation how easy it was to assemble a “ghost gun” but never managed to make the parts fit together.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is introducing legislation to protect FFLs from the ATF’s weaponized “zero tolerance” policy.

Central Texas Gun Works owner Michael Cargill’s lawsuit against the ATF’s bump stock ban went to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Firearm suppressors are legal to own in over 40 states, and they deliver advantages to the target shooter, the hunter, and the environment as well.

The whistleblower group Empower Oversight is warning that the ATF’s pending rule implementing universal background checks violates the law. 

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced legislation Wednesday to block funding for the ATF’s proposed universal background check rule.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys filed a motion in a U.S. District Court Monday, seeking to have gun charges against him dismissed in light of the Supreme Court’s Bruen (2022) decision.

The ATF, under pressure from GOP House members, agreed to accept 40,000 additional petitions against the agency’s background check rule.

A three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit decided against the ATF’s frame rule, finding that the ATF overstepped its bounds in issuing it.

Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk put a preliminary injunction in place against the ATF’s AR-pistol brace rule, describing the rule as unlawful.

ATF director Steven Dettelbach told Harvard Magazine one of his wish list items is a renewed ban on “assault weapons.”

Mike Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works and plaintiff in the bump stock case the Supreme Court just agreed to hear, believes his challenge to the bump stock ban may de-weaponize federal agencies across the board.

Guns are back at the Supreme Court, as the justices announced on Friday they will decide on free speech rights for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and whether the federal government can ban bump stocks, which are a firearm accessory, by calling them machineguns.

United States District Court Judge Drew B. Tipton extended the preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) pistol brace rule on Friday.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) sounded the alarm at a Wednesday press conference with members of Women for Gun Rights, highlighting the perilous position of America’s freedoms and warning that President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has “perpetrated an all-out assault on the Second Amendment.”

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued an order Monday vacating U.S. District Court Judge U.S. Reed O’Connor’s Sept. 14, 2023, decision which blocked enforcement of the Biden administration’s ghost gun rule.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) told Breitbart News that he has an amendment prepared to defund the ATF’s proposed universal background check rule.

Judge Daniel L. Hovland denied the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the ATF’s pistol stabilizer brace rule.

Special Counsel David Weiss indicted President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, on felony firearm charges Thursday.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is asking the ATF to explain a surge in revoked FFLs and suggesting it has overstepped the law.

Rep. Matt Gaetz is blasting Joe Biden’s ATF for allegedly retaliating against an FFL who is also a Congressional witness.

The White House released a Fact Sheet on the universal background check rule announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Thursday, describing the rule as “life-saving.”

Joe Biden’s ATF announced a proposed rule Thursday requiring universal background checks, which Congress has rejected for more than 20 years.

Federal Firearm License holders are accusing President Biden of targeting them after his administration revoked 122 licenses in the last fiscal year.