By: Anthony Morelli
It was a humiliating day for the ATF.
They tried to take the property of an innocent man.
But after losing a major battle, they were forced to surrender in shame.
The ATF is always trying to push the boundaries of what they are allowed to do under the Constitution in an effort to test the limits of what they can get away with.
Often times courts either don’t have the guts to stand up to them, or activist liberal judges actually agree with the ATF’s anti-gun agenda and rule in their favor.
That’s why the ATF has been out of control for such a long time and has been so brazen in attacking the freedoms of gun owners.
Fortunately for the gun community, and unfortunately for the ATF, they have finally been given a real check on their power.
They were forced to surrender to a man whose gun accessories they had taken away, despite the fact that he was totally innocent.
It was a humiliating moment for the ATF, and one that could perhaps make them think twice about pushing their constitutional limits in the future.
According to an article by AmmoLand’s David Codrea, the man who the ATF was forced to return the property to, “Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Independence Ohio Field Office surrendered what ATF had classified as a ‘FIREARM: OTHER FIREARM… TYPE: MACHINE GUN’ to this correspondent Friday, returning property held in a vault since 2019. It was, in fact, a bump stock, once more deemed not a machine gun and ‘legal’ to own following the United State Supreme Court’s landmark Cargill ruling.
“Longtime readers will recall mine is a unique one, signed by inventor Bill Akins, still in its original packaging, initially approved as ‘legal,’ then deemed ‘illegal,’ subsequently returned for rework to remove the spring and once more deemed ‘legal,’ and then ruled illegal again.”
Codrea was able to simply walk into the ATF field office and get his bump stock back due to the Supreme Court ruling.
The article continues, “One agent met us at the elevator and escorted us to the anteroom, where we were met and brought into the meeting room by the RAC (Resident Agent in Charge) and a TFO (Task Force Officer). They were both respectful and cordial and seemingly understanding of how untenable it is to repeatedly go back and forth from legal to illegal. I asked if anyone else had come to reclaim their property and was told I was the only one, that others had forfeited theirs, and that one business that had made stocks wrote the loss off on taxes.”
It must have been very difficult for the ATF to admit defeat and return this man’s property, as they pride themselves on taking guns away from people, not giving them back.
But the Supreme Court is the ultimate authority on these matters and the ATF had no choice but to comply with their ruling and give this man his bump stock back.