VanDerStok is not whether the rule violates the Second Amendment but whether it exceeds the authority that Congress gave the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

The question in the case, known as Garland v. VanDerStok, isn't whether Second Amendment rights were violated, but whether the ATF exceeded its authority when it issued the regulation in 2022.

According to the ATF's website, the Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986 amended the National Firearms Act to prohibit the transfer or possession of machine guns. Exceptions were made for the ...

Troppman agreed. The Firearms Protection Act of 1986 prohibits the ATF from creating a registry of guns or an electronic database. Contractors at the center manually look through documents from ...

VanDerStok, a challenge to the Final Rule of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) from 2022 redefining and drastically expanding the meaning of the terms "firearm" and ...

Some believe the ATF should keep DL2s hidden, and a few dozen members of Congress agree. Of the more than 132,000 federally licensed firearms dealers in the U.S., there is a small group that gets ...

The four masked suspects are wanted by the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) division in Washington. The National Sports Shooting Foundation has partnered with the ATF to offer a ...