Rare Breed Beat the ATF. It Should Not Help the ATF Finish the Job.
Rare Breed earned the gun-rights community’s respect by defeating federal lawfare. Its sweeping patent campaign now risks turning a shared constitutional victory into a government-assisted chokepoint over lawful firearms innovation. Written by: Chris McNutt Rare Breed Triggers earned its place in the history of the modern gun-rights movement. For years, the company fought the federal […]
Jasmine Crockett Joins Democrats Fighting ATF Gun-Rule Rollbacks
House Judiciary Democrats want ATF to abandon a sweeping regulatory package, but Texas Gun Rights warns that rolling back abusive rules is only the first step. House Judiciary Democrats are demanding that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives abandon its effort to roll back federal gun regulations. The July 29 letter, led by Reps. Jamie Raskin […]
Texas Leads the Nation as Suppressor Sales Explode
Texas gun owners are leading the nation as Americans purchase suppressors in record numbers following the elimination of the federal government’s $200 National Firearms Act tax. According to data provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Texas recorded 23,133 NFA background checks in June –– more than any other state in the country and well ahead […]
Brady Sues To Force ATF To Hand Over Gun Dealer Target List
The gun confiscation lobby wants a list. Not a list of violent criminals. A list of lawful gun dealers. Brady has filed a federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Justice demanding records tied to ATF’s “Demand Letter 2” program — records that could identify firearm dealers […]
ATF Caught in Biden-Era Gun Control Lawfare Scandal
The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the Biden Administration, ATF, and Everytown for Gun Safety coordinated behind the scenes to wage lawfare against America’s firearms industry. If true, it is exactly what gun owners have warned about for years. The ATF is not just an agency that “enforces the law.” In the hands of […]
No Other Constitutional Right Is Policed Like the Second Amendment
The Bill of Rights protects speech, religion, the press, assembly, due process, privacy, and the right to keep and bear arms. Only one of those rights has an entire federal agency built around regulating, restricting, investigating, and prosecuting the tools necessary to exercise it. The Second Amendment. That agency is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, […]
Everytown’s ATF Meltdown Proves Texas Gun Rights Was Right All Along
The gun confiscation lobby is melting down. After ATF Director Robert Cekada announced a package of proposed rule changes aimed at rolling back some of the Biden administration’s worst attacks on law-abiding gun owners, Everytown and its allies immediately went into panic mode. Why? Because for the first time in years, the ATF is not acting like […]
After Years of Abuse, ATF Wants Gun Owners to Trust Them With $1.65 Billion
ATF Director Robert Cekada recently went before Congress asking lawmakers to trust his agency with a massive $1.65 billion budget. After years of watching the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives harass gun dealers, target lawful gun owners, defend Biden-era gun grabs, and try to regulate the Second Amendment out of existence, Texas gun […]
ATF’s Gun Owner Registry Must Be Destroyed, Not “Reformed”
By Chris McNutt, President of Texas Gun Rights The ATF is trying to dress up a national gun owner registry as “records retention.” Don’t fall for it. As part of its latest rulemaking scheme, the ATF is proposing changes to how long gun dealers must keep firearm transaction records, including records the ATF collects when […]
The Next Gun Registry Won’t Be a List. It’ll Be an AI Model.
Texas Gun Rights warns artificial intelligence could turn ATF’s 4473 stockpile into the shadow registry Congress banned Congress banned the federal government from creating a national gun registry long ago. Now the question is whether artificial intelligence could allow the government to build one anyway. Not by creating a database labeled “registry.” Not by passing […]