JPFO FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN
SUPREME COURT VANDERSTOK CASE

BELLEVUE, WA – JPFO has submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the ATF's "Final Rule" equating firearms parts kits and gun components with functioning firearms. The case is known as Garland v. VanDerStok.

Joining JPFO in this important brief are the Western States Sheriffs' Association, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, California Rifle and Pistol Association, Second Amendment Law Center, Second Amendment Defense and Education Coalition, Ltd., International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund and the National Association of Chiefs of Police. They are represented by attorneys C.D. Michel of Long Beach, Calif., and Dan M. Peterson of Fairfax, Va.

In their brief, JPFO and its partners note that Congress "has implicitly approved that longstanding definition by amending the Gun Control Act of 1968 on multiple occasions while leaving the definition of "frame or receiver" untouched and uncriticized. It has delegated no power to ATF to change that definition."

"Executive branch agencies," said JPFO Projects Director James Jones, "have no authority to make law. That privilege is reserved for Congress alone. And, considering how the ATF has flip-flopped on their presumptively unconstitutional 'Final Rule', it's a good thing for all Americans that they can't make law. Of course, someone needs to tell that to the ATF since they still think they're in charge."

"The ATF has a long, checkered history of overreaching in their unabashed, ill-willed efforts to infringe on American's right to keep and bear arms. Sadly, their current attempt is not a surprise to us here at JPFO but we see this new, brazen attempt to prevent Americans from lawfully building their own firearms as just another nail in the coffin of Joe Biden's ATF."

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