Bumpstock ban overturned and ruling is good for braces
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Nice to get some good news for a change!
One of the very positive things in how this decision was written is that it looks very much like it applies equally to the coming rule about pistol braces. Essentially, the @TF does not have the authority to define a bump stock or a pistol brace as something that they regulate.
BigNate said:
I would bet that is due to the recent supreme court ruling regarding the EPA basically saying these three letter agencies can't make their own laws - it has go before congress.
The ruling basically said :
So hopefully this ruling / precedence will be used for stuff the ATF wants to do as well.......
paulgt2164 said:
Yep - and it could be even bigger than that. I understand that a number of justices have indicated a willingness to overturn the "Chevron Doctrine" - which is the legal doctrine that has resulted in much of the expansion of authority of federal agencies by allowing them to set the scope of their own authority where not explicitly constrained by the actual law.
Professor Michael McDonnell of Stanford Law School (and former federal appeals court judge) describes the Chevron Doctrine as: "...the idea that in litigation over federal agency action, the courts will defer to the agency’s own construction of its operating statute, unless that construction is outside the range of reasonableness, usually because the meaning of the statute is clear. The effect is to give the executive branch considerable leeway in determining the scope of its own power. Although first announced in 1984, Chevron deference has become a central pillar of the modern administrative state. It is a systemic thumb-on-the-scales in favor of the government’s view of the meaning of the statute, even if that view changes with political winds and even if it contradicts earlier judicial interpretation."
(Kavanaugh And The Chevron Doctrine)
I've now seen multiple online 2A commentators / lawyers say that they think that SCOTUS is looking at this particular bump-stock case as the vehicle to address reversal of the Chevron Doctrine. If it happens, it will be a fantastic step back towards limited government in that it will require congress to SPECIFICALLY dictate the scope of authority of an agency instead of letting that agency self define its authority based on intentionally vague law.
If they overturn the Chevron Doctrine it will have a huge positive effect in terms of neutering expansive government. Congress will need to go on record and actually pass restrictive law - instead of passing vague / nebulous law and letting the federal agencies in the executive branch do the expansion of authority through their interpretation.
Fingers crossed...
Guys, all it really means is that until the chevron doctrine is decided, ATF won't come out with an arm brace decision. ATF previously said they would announce an arm brace rule in December. That didn't happen because the appeals court decision sending it back to the lower court, would have made any ATF rule unenforceable. ATF wants to sound strong when they make an announcement to the state run so called news media (nbc, abc, msnbc, the clinton news network [cnn]), "We just saved 100,000 children, lgbtq, unicorns and southern border migrants", instead of "This is our new rule and its useless".
Also, I wouldn't be dredging the canal for your old bump stock yet.
Also, I wouldn't be dredging the canal for your old bump stock yet.
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