{"id":116426,"date":"2026-04-25T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116426"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:10:30","slug":"116426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116426","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Attor\u00adney Gen\u00ader\u00adal Ken Pax\u00adton Secures Legal Vic\u00adto\u00adry to Pro\u00adtect Gun Own\u00aders from Fed\u00ader\u00adal Over\u00adreach by Block\u00ading Biden-Era Gun Sale Rule<\/a><\/p>\n

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a landmark legal victory for gun owners, preserving an injunction that prevented enforcement of a Biden Administration Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (\u201cATF\u201d) rule that unlawfully sought to violate Americans\u2019 constitutional right to privately buy and sell firearms.<\/p>\n

For decades, Congress has deliberately protected the ability of law-abiding Americans to engage in private firearm sales. In doing so, Congress narrowly defined who qualifies as a \u201cdealer\u201d to prevent federal agencies from overreaching into private, non-commercial transactions. The Biden-era rule attempted to upend that framework by broadly expanding the definition and threatened to subject hundreds of thousands of law-abiding gun owners to presumptions of criminal liability for engaging in constitutionally protected conduct.<\/p>\n

This unlawful rule exceeded the authority granted to the ATF by Congress and represented a direct violation of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

In May 2024, Attorney General Paxton\u202fled<\/a>\u202fa multistate coalition to sue the ATF over the unlawful regulation. Attorney General Paxton\u202fobtained<\/a>\u202fa temporary restraining order followed by an\u00a0injunction<\/a>\u00a0against the rule that prevents enforcement in all states party to the lawsuit. The injunction identified that the ATF rule likely violated federal law by \u201crequiring that firearms owners prove innocence rather than the government prove guilt\u201d which could \u201ctrigger civil or criminal penalties for conduct deemed lawful just yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, the Trump Administration has moved to dismiss its appeal of the preliminary injunction, ensuring that gun owners will continue to be protected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Second Amendment is a cornerstone of American freedom, and I will never allow it to be undermined by unlawful federal overreach,\u201d said Attorney General Paxton. \u201cThis Biden-era rule was a blatant attempt to violate our Constitution and criminalize law abiding Americans for engaging in lawful private firearm sales. I am proud to have led this coalition to stop it, and I fully support the Trump Administration\u2019s decision to abandon this appeal and restore the rule of law for gun owners across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read the order,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attor\u00adney Gen\u00ader\u00adal Ken Pax\u00adton Secures Legal Vic\u00adto\u00adry to Pro\u00adtect Gun Own\u00aders from Fed\u00ader\u00adal Over\u00adreach by Block\u00ading Biden-Era Gun Sale Rule Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a landmark legal victory for gun owners, preserving an injunction that prevented enforcement of a Biden Administration Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (\u201cATF\u201d) rule that unlawfully sought to … 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":[39,23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116426","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=116426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116427,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116426\/revisions\/116427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}