Coming Soon To SCOTUS

Setting Boundaries

The Court now has the opportunity to put the ATF in its place as an agency, rather than a political weapon. A proper ruling in this case will remind ATF that Congress, not an agency, is where laws are written. This process should involve considerable deliberation, not the arbitrary whims of the guy in the Oval Office.

Biden owns a shotgun and he claims to be a “Second Amendment guy.” Somewhere at my brother’s house is an old guitar my dad owned, but it doesn’t make him Peter Frampton.

Interestingly, this really is not a Second Amendment case, yet it has the right to keep and bear arms smeared all over it. The weaponized ATF was turned loose on gun owners under the guise of cracking down on so-called “ghost guns,” home-built firearms — typically without serial numbers — for personal use by their owners. Back when the colonies became a country and adopted a constitution with a 10-part Bill of Rights, guns didn’t have serial numbers. Oh, and contrary to what Joe Biden may want you to believe, people did own cannons!

This is all about a federal agency usurping the power and authority of Congress. Under Joe Biden and his hand-picked ATF Director Steve Dettelbach, the agency tried to skate about Congress and make up its own gun control rules. The fact several entities, including the Second Amendment Foundation, sued to block the ATF led the Supreme Court to take the case, essentially telling the agency “Nice try, but no cigar.”

Dettelbach is the man who stated during an appearance earlier this year, “There is no gun show loophole, and there never was.” His remarks came during the “Gun Violence Survivors’ Summit” held in April and the admission probably came as a shock to all of the gun prohibitionists in the room who have claimed for years gun shows are “arms bazaars for criminals.”