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The ATF doesn’t seem to understand what the word “no” means. It’s very simple: If a federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking you from enforcing unlawful action, you don’t do just that.

We currently have a preliminary injunction blocking the ATF from enforcing their Forced Reset Trigger ban against members of the National Association for Gun Rights and Texas Gun Rights.

Specifically, the ATF is not allowed to send our members notice letters or request the “voluntary surrender” of FRTs, or in any way interfere with our members’ lawful possession of FRTs.

Despite that, the ATF has done this not once, but twice since we have received our injunction against them.

When our lawyer called the DOJ attorney representing the ATF, he said “Not our fault, we don’t know who your members are. Give us a list and we’ll tell the ATF not to bother them.”

We will not be giving the ATF a list of our members – ever, under any circumstances.

We will be fighting back against the tyrants at the ATF in the courts, and will be asking for the preliminary injunction to be expanded so the ATF cannot enforce their trigger ban on ANYONE.

(Please note, the nationwide injunction was what we originally asked the court for, since Second Amendment rights should not depend on anyone’s membership in an organization. We will keep fighting for that till everyone is protected from the ATF’s unlawful trigger ban.)

In the meantime, we have set up a legal hotline for our members to call if the ATF harasses anymore of our members over FRTs.

Any NAGR members who are contacted by the ATF over Forced Reset Triggers should call us at 877-205-6554.

Leave us a message, clearly state your information, and tell us what happened. We will verify your membership and be in touch to help.

If you are not already a member, we cannot guarantee that you will be covered by the current preliminary injunction, as it is a legal gray area.  But by joining you will have access to our legal hotline, and if we win a permanent injunction, you will be protected.

The ATF is trying to get around this preliminary injunction and they’re using it as an excuse to get a list of each of our members.

We will not let them get away with it!

Click here to donate to our legal fund and help put an end to the tyrannical and unlawful action of the ATF.

The ATF has official entered the Pistol Brace Rule into the Federal Registry as of today, January 31, 2023. This means that the 120-day “grace period” for registering pistol/pistol brace configurations as short barreled rifles under the National Firearms Act (NFA) without paying the $200 tax stamp begins today.

Essentially your chance to register your common pistol on a national gun registry without paying their tax begins today.

DISCLAIMER: The National Foundation for Gun Rights (NFGR) and the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) do not provide legal advice. This document should not be viewed as legal advice. The National Foundation for Gun Rights does NOT encourage anyone to break the law and encourages all gun owners to seek private legal council for advice on how to handle their specific legal or firearms related situation.

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The ATF has released their long-awaited pistol brace ban. The rule will be effective as soon as it is entered into the federal registry, which must be within 30 days of January 13, 2023.

The rule expands the definition of “rifle” as follows:

“the definition of ‘rifle’ shall include a weapon that is equipped with an accessory, component, or other rearward attachment (e.g., a ‘stabilizing brace’) that provides surface area that allows the weapon to be fired from the shoulder, provided other factors, as described in this preamble and in the amended regulations, indicate that the weapon is designed, made, and intended to be fired from the shoulder.”

This means that nearly any weapon with a pistol brace attached is now a rifle. If the barrel is shorter than 16″ (i.e. a pistol), it would now be classified as a short-barreled rifle and illegal unless the owner registers it with the federal government.

This has major implications for millions of law-abiding firearms holders who use pistol braces with their firearms. Unless they register those firearms with the ATF under the National Firearms Act (and pay $200 per tax stamp), they could be prosecuted for a felony.

This is a massive expansion of the only gun registry currently legal under federal law. With this rule suddenly millions of common everyday pistols get treated similarly to machine guns, silencers, and destructive devices (grenades, poisonous gases, and missiles).

So let’s call this “rule” what it really is. Gun registration for millions American gun owners.

This is a deliberate prelude to one day registering and taxing ALL rifles, pistols, or shotguns under the NFA.

Our legal team is analyzing the entirety of the 293-page document and will have a full legal analysis soon.

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Click here for the full rule.