{"id":117358,"date":"2026-06-18T10:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117358"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:21:47","slug":"117358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117358","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/multimedia\/article\/machine-guns-and-bootleggers-rightly-decided\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Machine Guns and Bootleggers | Rightly Decided<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The litigators from TPPF\u2019s Center for the American Future begin by breaking down a major Fifth Circuit victory that struck down an 1869 federal ban on home distilling of spirits. They analyze the McNutt and Hobby Distillers Association v. U.S. Department of Justice case, dissecting standing doctrine, the limits of the taxing power, and the Necessary and Proper Clause\u2019s role in preserving federalism.<\/p>\n<p>They also highlight their litigation targeting the Hughes Amendment\u2019s ban on post-1986 machine guns (Temple Gun Club v. Blanche), and the FinCEN case (Corley v. U.S. Dep\u2019t of the Treasury) involving Treasury rules on residential real estate transfers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vSAgo2bdd1E\" title=\"Machine Guns and Bootleggers | Rightly Decided\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine Guns and Bootleggers | Rightly Decided The litigators from TPPF\u2019s Center for the American Future begin by breaking down a major Fifth Circuit victory that struck down an 1869 federal ban on home distilling of spirits. They analyze the McNutt and Hobby Distillers Association v. U.S. Department of Justice case, dissecting standing doctrine, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[23,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117358","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=117358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117359,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117358\/revisions\/117359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}