A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its gun background check rule one day before the measure took effect.
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Steve Dettelbach, speaks during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 11, 2022. for firearms sales, requiring dealers selling guns for a profit to be licensed and requiring background checks for buyers.
“President Biden and his anti-gun administration have aggressively pursued an agenda meant to harass, intimidate, and criminalize gun owners and dealers at every turn,”Plaintiffs argued the ATF rule violated the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 and the Second Amendment. Kacsmaryk did not rule on the constitutional claim but agreed with the plaintiffs that it ran afoul of the 2022 law.
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