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The topic for this Current Events video is not necessarily a new topic or event, as this has been working through the court system for over a year, but the outcome is new. As we have discussed in previous Current Event episodes, there is an amazing amount of willfully ignorant, do-nothing politicians and unelected bureaucrats who are tirelessly working to limit and reduce your individual freedoms and rights by enacting or attempting to enact unconstitutional laws and “rules”. Thankfully, some of those tyrannical actions imposed on pistol stabilizing braces and bump stocks have been stopped. Before getting into the individual rights victory, let me briefly describe what happened for those who aren’t up to speed. A pistol stabilizing brace is an attachment that allows for people with disabilities to more easily manipulate and more accurately fire a AR-15 or similar style pistol by attaching to their forearm or to shoulder fire if they so choose. It is not a buttstock, and it does not alter the way a weapon fires. The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) administration retroactively decreed through a unconstitutional and arbitrary "rule" (ATF Rule 2021R-08F) in January 31, 2023 that pistol stabilizing braces are were illegal to own, possess and/or use unless you comply with their new law or what they call, "rule". Once the "rule" was published (ATF "rule" link), an individual in possession of an unregistered pistol stabilizing brace was technically committing an arrestable felony offense. Keep in mind, this was action was taken after 10 years of the pistol stabilizing brace being legal and millions of people purchasing them. Basically, because the ATF changed their mind, they attempted to turn millions of Americans into felons if they did not comply by surrendering or destroying their property (the brace) or if they did not pay the government money in the form of a tax stamp to possess property, they already own. To learn more about this, please watch our Current Events video on this topic: Current Events E1 The other item the ATF arbitrarily banded through the use of a “rule” was the Bump Stock in 2018, but the final rule did not go into effect until March of 2019. Following a mass casualty event, Former President Trump demanded the ATF ban bump stocks. They did this by reclassifying the bump stock as a machine-gun by manipulating the definition of machine-gun in the Gun Control Act (GCA) and the National Firearms Act (NFA) to fit their requirements. Per the NFA, which is a whole other unconstitutional topic, a machine-gun is defined as: Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The bump stock is an attachment and does not alter the way a weapon fires. It does however use the already existing recoil motion of the weapon to reset the trigger, which means each time the weapon fires, the trigger is being rest. Only one projectile is being shot with a single function of the trigger, therefore it is, by definition, not a machine-gun, but the ATF didn’t care because they were given presidential authority to violate peoples’ individual rights and send them to jail because they could. During congressional testimony and political speeches, several anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment politicians vigorously and adamantly called for further restrictions of attachments by using examples of pistol stabilizing brace and bump stock. Unfortunately, these same people are not informed on such topics and continually confused a pistol stabilizing brace with a bump stock. My point being, people who don’t know what they’re talking about desire to arbitrarily infringe on your rights using incorrect or made up information as the justification to limit your freedom. To see these conversations, please watch our Current Events Episode about this: Current Events E3 Now that that’s out the way, let’s get into the good news. First up, braces and I’m not talking about the kind that go on your teeth. Sorry to all my British friends. There has been a lot of ongoing litigation in defense of free ownership of pistol stabilization braces. There were also several temporary injunctions in place preventing the ATF from taking enforcement action, but those injections only applied to certain people, groups, or states. On June 13, 2024, the Mock v. Garland ruling changed everything. Judge Reed O’Conner vacated the entire rule. In short, he found the pistol stabilizing brace rule put forth by the ATF to be invalid and struck the rule down in its entirety. This provides national relief to all people, not just certain groups or states. This means, for now anyways, you are no longer a felon for simply owning, possessing, and/or using a pistol stabilizing brace. You do not have to jump through hopes to continue possessing property you already own. The second update applies to bump stocks. On June 14, 2024, in a 6 – 3 decision by the Supreme Court in the case of Garland v. Cargill (which was a case challenging the governments unlawful ban on bump stocks), they ruled in favor of Mr. Cargill. In short, this means the ban on bump stocks has been lifted by the Supreme Court because a bump stock, when attached to a semiautomatic weapon does not change or alter the function of a single fire trigger, thus not meeting the definition of a machinegun and cannot be confined to the same restrictions and regulations as one. Keep in mind though, these accessories might become regulated again through legislative action, but for now, bureaucrats got their little pee pees slapped by the judicial system. Even if you do not support the Second Amendment, as a free person you should support the actions of an overreaching government being limited. If you allow the government to infringe on certain rights and freedoms because you don’t like or agree with those particular rights and freedoms, it’ll only be a matter of time until the government sets their sights on rights and freedoms you do like. If you give the government an inch, they’ll take a mile. They easiest way to prevent them from taking a mile is to never give them an inch. My ConclusionThose are my observations and opinions. Although this video is specifically related to the Second Amendment, that does not mean the issue here is only limited to the Second Amendment, obviously. If they are willing to deprive people of certain freedoms and rights using manipulative methods and bureaucratic overreach, they are willing to do it on all freedoms and rights. It is the job of government to protect our rights, not limit them. Remember, the Second Amendment was not created to limit what people could or could not own, which is why it does not specify ownership of certain objects like muskets or cannons, or certain time periods of which people can own certain objects. The Second Amendment was created to limit the Government, which is why the only limitation specified within the Second Amendment applies to Government, "shall not be infringed".  Video Version of This ArticleThank you for reading this article. We hope it was informative. If so, please share it with others and don't forget to leave a comment below!
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