A Great Day for Freedom

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Today is a great day for freedom and the American people. The dismissal of this appeal should be the final nail in the coffin of this unconstitutional Biden ATF assault on gun owners. As we explained in the case filings, braced pistols are not ‘short-barreled rifles’. But either way, they are unquestionably arms protected under the Second Amendment. We are thrilled to have secured this important win for liberty and excited to take on even more unconstitutional laws so you can exercise your rights when, where, and how you choose.

Brandon Combs
Firearms Policy Coalition President
July 17, 2025
FPC WIN: Order Vacating Biden “Pistol Brace” Rule Stands, Government Dismisses Appeal – Firearms Policy Coalition

See also: DOJ Delivers Final Blow to Biden-Era Gun Regulation.

A year ago, I could not have imagined seeing this sort of thing happen. I sometimes think I must be dreaming about how well things are going in the fight for the rights of gun owners. We lived the nightmare for so many decades it is nice to have things turn our way.

The really big thorns in our paws are now:

  • Restrictions on semi-automatic rifles.
  • Restrictions on standard capacity magazines.
  • Permitting of all types.
  • Waiting periods.

I think these are all relatively easy wins if we can just get them before SCOTUS.

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6 thoughts on “A Great Day for Freedom”

  1. SCOTUS has rules that shall-issue could be constitutional. Only “could be”, not “assumed to be so”. They are ripe for all kinds of “as implemented” challenges when combined with other precedents, like “you can’t take a right and turn it into a privilege through licensing and/or fees”, assuming that the government can articulate a rational legitimate basis for their action, that action must be the least intrusive to the protected right possible to achieve the reason still consistent with other constitutional principles, etc.

    WA states permit to purchase law, which will add cost, add delay, be fraught with error may not be facially unconstitutional, but it wouldn’t be hard for the court to lay out what it would take to be as-applied constitutional: instant response, no cost to the citizen or business, no retained record of transaction after a PROCEED and the error rate had better be less than 1% and that remaining error resolvable within 8 business hours and not repeated. Oh, and all legitimate STOP responses must be reported to law enforcement and followed up (as in, make an arrest) within 1 business day, and the prosecutor pursue charges within a reasonable time or they are not actually working to achieve the alleged legitimate state purpose, which invalidates the entire premise. All theoretically do-able… for enough funding.

    Hmmmm… doesn’t WA state have a budget crisis? There are so many demands they have on public funds. Which ones will they forego in order to fully fund and implement this gun control scheme to a level where it would meet constitutional muster?

    • Hmmmm… doesn’t WA state have a budget crisis? There are so many demands they have on public funds. Which ones will they forego in order to fully fund and implement this gun control scheme to a level where it would meet constitutional muster?

      That’s the truth of any new criminal code. The reality is, the State/government/police/etc. depend on non-criminal people to follow the law. When there’s one cop for every 2,000 people, you need at least 1,999 of them to be law-abiding. (Even large cities with large police departments, where there’s an officer for every 200-500 people, they still need the vast majority to be law-abiding or the job quickly becomes impossible.)

      So what happens if a new morally- and Constitutionally-questionable law is passed that adds hassle and expense to normal citizens’ lives, but funds aren’t appropriated to enforce it, and the general citizenry decides that with near-zero risk of adverse consequences, there’s little point in compliance? What can they do if non-compliant people outnumber police enforcers by an order of magnitude?

      • Easy: the law will be sporadically enforced upon those that come to the attention of the government when they don’t have any other sufficient legal basis to destroy them. Good, old fashioned parallel construction.

        People prosecuted under this law will be internet loudmouths of specific ideological bent and people that give money to the wrong campaigns.

        • Good old-fashioned Stalinist Communism — Not to put too fine a point on it.

  2. I fully expect this…or something basically the same…to be reimplemented the next time the left regains control of the White House. Gun Control is a sacred cow to the left. Without it they simply CANNOT RULE US. So this and other “rules” that have of late been set aside WILL BE BACK in one form or another.

  3. Need nationwide constitutional carry added to you list of things we need to continue to work on

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