Gun Owners of America, Inc. v. Garland, GOA’s bump-fire stock case brought about an interesting development. The Department of Justice sent the court a letter in response to a request about the meaning of “can be readily restored to shoot.”
Violence enabling lawyers who claim that the existence of bump-fire stocks, lightning links, and autosears mean that AR-pattern firearms are machineguns should take note of page 2 of that letter.
In any event, an AR-15 is not a firearm that can be “readily restored” tp fire automatically. An AR-15 — a semiautomatic firearm — is not a weapon that “previously could shoot automatically but will not in [its] present condition.
To be honest, the possibility that courts or the ATF would so rule has concerned me. So I hope the ATF also reads this letter, too. I don’t think we should get too complacent about this, but we can breathe a little easier… for now.
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Boy that DOJ has been busy! Going after parents, defending Garland’s daughter’s income stream with Critical race theory. Tap dancing before congress and lying their butts off, busy busy DOJ. Too bad none of it is actually doing the job.