{"id":2645512,"date":"2026-08-15T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-keeps-major-biden-admin-gun-rule-on-ice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:32:01","slug":"judge-keeps-major-biden-admin-gun-rule-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-keeps-major-biden-admin-gun-rule-on-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Keeps Major Biden Admin Gun Rule On Ice"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fjudge-keeps-major-biden-admin-gun-rule-on-ice%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=2645512&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--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-major-cases-the-supreme-court-will-hear-in-2026\/\" title=\"Four major cases the Supreme Court will hear in 2026\">federal judge denied efforts<\/a> to lift an order blocking the Biden administration&#8217;s attempt to expand firearm licensing requirements. The ruling, issued by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas, upheld the injunction against the \u201cEngaged in the Business\u201d rule, criticizing it as an unauthorized attempt to impose \u201cworldwide background checks.\u201d The judge noted that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) violated the Administrative Procedures Act when creating this rule. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the ATF planned to publish about 34 rule changes, including repealing the Biden-era \u201cstabilizing brace\u201d rule and modifying regulations related to \u201cbump stocks\u201d and definitions of firearms dealers. One of the controversial rules, issued in April 2024, aimed to clarify when private firearm sales might be considered illegal, though it was blocked in June 2024. The Biden administration claimed these rules were about clarifying regulations, while opponents see them as attempts to tighten gun control laws.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A federal judge refused Thursday to lift an order blocking the implementation of a Biden administration rule that attempted to expand the number of people required to acquire Federal Firearms Licenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">United States District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, ruled that the injunction blocking the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cEngaged in the Business\u201d rule would remain in place. In the ruling, Kacsmaryk chided the Justice Department for being \u201ctoo clever by half\u201d and that the rule was a means of imposing so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-culture-that-celebrates-dismembering-children-in-the-womb-cant-understand-why-its-afflicted-with-mass-shootings\/\" title=\"A Culture That Celebrates Dismembering Children In The Womb Can\u2019t Understand Why It\u2019s Afflicted With Mass Shootings\">-called \u201cuniversal background checks<\/a>,\u201d which have been unable to pass Congress.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe Court\u2019s 2024 and 2026 Orders were clear: ATF violated the [Administrative Procedures Act] when it promulgated the Engaged in the Business Rule, so the rule cannot stand,\u201d Kacsmaryk wrote. \u201cDefendants cannot avoid the force of those Orders by rearranging a few words between the old Rule and the new one.\u201d<\/div>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed\u00a0during an April 30 <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/C0vXnHZgqQE?si=FIwvcJM40wIut-B7&#038;t=740\">press conference<\/a> that at least 34 rule changes would be published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), including a repeal of the \u201cstabilizing brace\u201d rule imposed by the Biden administration, as well as altering two other regulations that the Biden administration used to enact gun control, one of which targeted so-called \u201cbump stocks,\u201d the other was known as the \u201cDefinition of \u2018Engaged in the Business\u2019 as a Dealer in Firearms\u201d rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The \u201cDefinition of \u2018Engaged in the Business\u2019 as a Dealer in Firearms\u201d rule was issued in April 2024, potentially making any private sale of firearms for a profit illegal. A federal judge blocked\u00a0the rule in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The Biden administration <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atf.gov\/rules-and-regulations\/final-rule-definition-engaged-business-a-dealer-firearms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that the \u201cDefinition of \u2018Engaged in the Business\u2019 as a Dealer in Firearms\u201d rule merely adjusted various regulatory definitions, including \u201cengaged in the business as a dealer other than a gunsmith or pawnbroker\u201d and \u201cprincipal objective of livelihood and profit,\u201d so that ATF regulations could be \u201crelied upon by the public.\u201d One of the things it did was to define how a person was \u201cengaging in the business\u201d or showing intent to \u201cpredominantly earn a profit\u201d from selling firearms, adding that failing to make a profit would not avoid ATF assuming a person was illegally dealing in firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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