Remember when the ATF screwed around with the NPRM and commenting process on its bump-fire stock ban rule?
They’re doing again, with the new definitions of “firearm,” “frame, and “receiver.”
The original URL for the NPRM went dead sometime today. I discovered this when I checked to see if TZP’s or my own comments were visible yet. It’s gone.
The new page is Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms, and the docket number is no longer “ATF 2021R-05;” it is now “Docket (ATF-2021-0001).” You can comment HERE, which I’ll need to do again because our comments on the previous version are gone (a search of the tracking number I was given returns nothing).
You’d think that by now the ATF could figure out the whole Administrative Procedures Act thing. But then, they still haven’t figured out “firearm” in decades.
See an ironic update.
f*****g atf c***s don’t define s**t, suck d**k
[Edited for language. Please be a little more polite here. – CB]
And remember a Federal Appeals Court (2-1) gave the ATF a slap-down over defining a bump stock as a machine gun. The Chevron Deference was not allowed. The case was sent back to the lower Court.
More than likely lawsuits will be filed on the new rules and the ATF will be told “NO” again.
Just search for “Appeals Court: ATF Can’t Classify Bump Stock as Machine Gun”
and “Federal Court: No, ATF, Bump Stocks are Not Machine Guns”
Only congress can change the 1934 NFA, not some Agency.