{"id":107670,"date":"2025-02-20T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107670"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:10:20","slug":"107670","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=107670","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Franklin Armory and FRAC Defeat ATF, Judge Rules Words Mean Things.<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. District Court in North Dakota today issued its opinion in the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition (\u201cFRAC\u201d)-Franklin Armory firearms classification-related lawsuit against ATF. In his ruling, Judge Daniel M. Traynor vacated the ATF\u2019s prior\u00a0misclassifications<\/a>\u00a0of Franklin Armory\u2019s Reformation and Antithesis firearms. Judge Traynor\u2019s ruling solidifies what the firearms industry has known for years\u2014that the ATF has been abusing its firearms technology classification powers.<\/p>\n

Per\u00a0the Court\u2019s opinion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Franklin Armory presented a square peg, and ATF shoved it into a round hole. If Congress wanted \u201cshotgun\u201d to be a catch-all category for anything that doesn\u2019t fit \u201crifle,\u201d it could have done so. . . . . It is not for ATF to redefine the terms because it thinks Congress didn\u2019t intend a certain outcome. Therefore, ATF exceeded its authority in defining \u201csmoothbore\u201d as anything lacking \u201cfunctional rifling.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

FRAC and Franklin Armory are reviewing the Court\u2019s ruling and seeking further guidance from legal counsel as to the future of both Reformation and Antithesis under the law. Judge Traynor\u2019s opinion declares that the \u201cATF classification of the Antithesis and reclassification of the Reformation [are] VACATED.\u201d In response to ATF\u2019s arguments, Judge Traynor retorted that \u201cAdministrative agencies need to remember they are in the executive branch and leave legislating to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

FRAC President & CEO, Travis White, stated that \u201cthe ATF has egregiously abused the firearms technology classification process, and this is a landmark ruling in reining in such abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Franklin Armory President Jay Jacobson said, \u201cwe spent years trying to reason with ATF leadership as they failed to classify firearms correctly. We hope that future agency leaders will stick to the law as passed by Congress. All we ever wanted was a good referee, not someone to throw the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge Traynor\u2019s summary judgment ruling in FRAC v. Garland, No. 1:23-cv-00003, can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Franklin Armory and FRAC Defeat ATF, Judge Rules Words Mean Things. The U.S. District Court in North Dakota today issued its opinion in the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition (\u201cFRAC\u201d)-Franklin Armory firearms classification-related lawsuit against ATF. In his ruling, Judge Daniel M. Traynor vacated the ATF\u2019s prior\u00a0misclassifications\u00a0of Franklin Armory\u2019s Reformation and Antithesis firearms. Judge Traynor\u2019s ruling … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-courts","category-gun-schtuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107671,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107670\/revisions\/107671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}