{"id":1970154,"date":"2023-07-11T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atf-sued-over-firearm-license-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T19:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:35:31","slug":"atf-sued-over-firearm-license-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atf-sued-over-firearm-license-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF faces lawsuit over gun license policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatf-sued-over-firearm-license-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1970154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Faces Lawsuit Over Firearm Commerce Regulation<\/h2>\n<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is being sued by Gun Owners of America (GOA), along with North Dakota gun store Morehouse Enterprises and Bridge City Ordnance. The lawsuit aims to challenge the ATF&#8217;s federal firearms license inspection guidelines, which have the potential to shut down gun stores.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden Administration&#8217;s Plan to Combat Gun Violence Includes Stricter Regulations<\/h3>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration has unveiled a comprehensive plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-pushes-back-against-democrat-led-gun-control-efforts\/\" title=\"GOP pushes back against Democrat-led gun control efforts\">address gun violence<\/a> in America. As part of this plan, the Justice Department has introduced a new policy that requires the ATF to revoke the licenses of dealers who violate federal law for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Biden administration outlined specific violations that could lead to the revocation of a firearm dealer&#8217;s license. These include willfully selling firearms to prohibited individuals, failing to conduct background checks, falsifying records, refusing to respond to ATF tracing requests, or denying ATF inspections related to violations.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the ATF issued a revised order that established &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; guidelines for gun stores that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atf-sued-over-firearm-license-policy\/\" title=\"ATF faces lawsuit over gun license policy.\">willfully disregard public safety<\/a> and fail to comply with regulations.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversy Surrounding ATF&#8217;s Use of Computer Algorithms<\/h3>\n<p>The lawsuit argues that the ATF&#8217;s determination of &#8220;willfulness&#8221; in revoking a Federal Firearms License (FFL) is now based on computer algorithms rather than human judgment. According to the lawsuit, this means that willfulness is determined solely by the category of record-keeping violations discovered and inputted into the computer system, without considering individual circumstances or human judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Morehouse Enterprises previously filed a lawsuit in 2022 challenging the ATF&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-set-to-announce-new-crackdown-on-gun-rights-this-week-report\/\" title=\"Biden Set To Announce New Crackdown On Gun Rights This Week: Report\">ghost gun rule<\/a>, which aims to restrict the production of firearms that are difficult to trace. Following the lawsuit, the ATF conducted an investigation into Morehouse&#8217;s gun store license and found multiple violations, as stated in the 2022 lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shortly after that lawsuit was filed, Bridge City Ordnance (BCO) underwent an administrative compliance inspection by the ATF in February 2023. This was the first compliance inspection ever conducted by the ATF regarding either of the BCO licenses,&#8221; the new lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun Owners of America (GOA) has sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) alongside North Dakota&#8217;s Morehouse Enterprises and Bridge City Ordnance. The lawsuit aims to challenge the ATF&#8217;s federal firearms license inspection guidelines, asserting the rights of gun owners and pushing back against the agency&#8217;s regulation of firearm commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1970155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}