BATFE admits they don't have authority to ban bump stocks

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Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Congress has not prohibited bump stocks, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has made them illegal with a Final Rule issued without statutory authority. In a noteworthy development, ATF’s latest court filing admits that it lacked rulemaking authority under the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act to issue a legislative rule. ATF thus now agrees with NCLA that the district court below was wrong on this point of law.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a brief on behalf of client Clark Aposhian, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reject ATF’s remaining defenses of the Final Rule, restore Mr. Aposhian’s constitutional rights, and grant him a preliminary injunction to possess his lawfully acquired property. Specifically, NCLA argues that ATF’s interpretation is not the best reading of the statute and that the Court of Appeals cannot properly invoke the Chevron judicial deference doctrine to defer to ATF’s interpretation....
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SO an unelected 4th branch of govt can't make laws without going thru Congress?

Who'd a thunk it? BTW if we were under Obama it would have never been documented.

I'm still waiting on the apology to the Special Needs community for targeting and using them as straw-buyers etc out in the Southwest under Obama.
 
Now they can blame Trump for something he really did do. ;)
 
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Congress will include bump stocks ban with UBC and ERPO. The RINOs are ready to do something.
 
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