The next “new management” could issue a new version of the pistol-brace rule. Only an act of Congress or a definitive Supreme Court ruling affirming their legality would offer permanent protection.
Last year, the ATF’s pistol brace rule was vacated by a Fifth Circuit District court in a case brought by the Firearms Policy Coalition. A similar case had the same result in the Eighth Circuit. The ATF, then under different management, appealed the ruling in Mock v. Bondi. Yesterday, however, in a yuge win for FPC and gun owners in general, the Department of Justice agreed to drop its pending appeal of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling, signaling a retreat from the Biden era war on guns.
From the FPC . . .
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the federal government agreed to a joint dismissal of the government’s appeal in our Mock v. Bondi lawsuit, a case that successfully challenged the Biden ATF’s “pistol brace” ban rule and secured injunctive relief for gun owners while the case was being litigated to final judgment, which completely vacated the rule.
By Dan Zimmerman

