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It seems to be an onslaught of lawsuits and allegations that are coming at the Biden administration. In fact, around this time last year, Representative Jeff Duncan said that Biden is a national security threat. Additionally, Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene later introduced articles of impeachment which received the co-sponsoring of Representative Greene.
Additionally, after the administration sold over 950,000 barrelsfrom the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a state-owned gas company in China that has financial ties to a private equity firm co-founded by Hunter Biden.
Now, the Republican Attorney General, Mark Brnovich, just announced that it is his turn to file suit against the Biden administration. In this case, he is suing the administration over rules that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) imposed that would treat incomplete gun parts as finished firearms.
It is being reported that Brnovich, alongside 16 other attorneys general, Morehouse Enterprises, Gun Owners of America, and Gun Owners Foundation issued a press release alleged the ATF “seeks to, among other things, regulate unfinished, non-functional parts as if they were complete firearms. This threatens the American tradition of private firearms manufacturing that predates the Revolution.”
“The ATF is attempting to overshoot the authority granted to it by Congress,” Brnovich said. “The rulemakings are unconstitutional, impractical, and would likely put a large number of parts manufacturers out of business.”
It was further reported that at the center of the suit is Eliezer Jimenez, a North Dakota resident who makes his own guns from spare parts. “Plaintiff Jimenez buys his parts, including unfinished frames or receivers, tools, jigs, and other items to assist him in making firearms, from online retailers,” the complaint states.
“Given the breadth of the Final Rule, as explained further below, the ruling directly impacts Plaintiff Jimenez by restricting his ability to acquire these parts, and also making it difficult if not impossible to determine what parts he is allowed to purchase online, and from which vendors, without exposing himself to potential criminal liability for undefined crimes, such as structuring.”
Brnovich also made the allegation that the ATF was preparing a national registry for firearms.
In a press release that was released that in addition, the complaint alleges that ATF’s rulemaking takes steps toward the illegal creation of a national firearms registry.
It would require firearms retailers to keep all sales records beyond their current 20-year retention requirement and eventually turn them over to the ATF instead of responsibly destroying them.
This threatens the privacy of every gun owner in the country.
In August 2021, General Brnovich co-led a 20-state coalition in a comment letter rebuking a proposed rule that weakened the Second Amendment by giving the ATF power to regulate firearm parts.
AG Brnovich is fully prepared to defend the Second Amendment in this important litigation protecting a basic American right. Joining General Brnovich are the Attorneys General of West Virginia, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina, Utah, and Wyoming.
It seems that there is another army of vitriol coming after the Biden administration, cheer-lead and emboldened by this coalition of Attorney Generals. These are powerful enemies for the administration and it seems that Biden will have his work cut out for him in terms of any attempts on his part to win this battle.
The team of Attorney Generals, for their part, seem primed for battle and are prepared to go for the long haul.
