GOA Petitions SCOTUS to Smack Down ATF Gun Control
Thanks to your help and support, GOA is taking the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to the highest court in the land.
GOAs John Velleco and Erich Pratt, before the U.S. Supreme Court, delivering paperwork related to GOAs bump stock case.
Earlier this month, GOA officially petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our case challenging ATF’s bump stock ban from 2018.
The key issue is the question of whether a government agency (like the ATF) can bypass Congress to “make laws” by executive fiat – especially when the new penalties infringe upon constitutionally protected rights and threaten to send non-violent citizens to jail.
If the ATF can bypass federal law and decree that a bump stock is a machine gun, then they can declare anything to be a machine gun – including AR-15s.
The ATF has two additional gun bans pending: one banning homemade firearms; the other banning pistol-braced firearms. The outcome of GOA’s bump stock case could help determine if ATF bureaucrats can continue using executive fiat to turn law-abiding citizens into felons.
GOA has been in litigation with ATF since the day the bump stock ban was published and was able to win a victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which was later overturned when the 16 judges on that circuit split evenly between GOA’s position and ATF’s position.
