{"id":4446,"date":"2026-08-14T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:37:24","slug":"judge-keeps-major-biden-admin-gun-rule-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"Judge Keeps Major Biden Admin Gun Rule On Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\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>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4444\">Retail Sales Suffer Biggest Drop In More Than A Year As Iran War Casts Shadow Over Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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-called \u201cuniversal background checks,\u201d which have been unable to pass Congress. <strong>(RELATED: DOJ Waves White Flag, Ends Nine Decades Of Red Tape Over Suppressors In Victory For Gun Owners)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\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<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed during an April 30 press conference 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 and the other was known as the \u201cDefinition of \u2018Engaged in the Business\u2019 as a Dealer in Firearms\u201d rule.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4441\">REP. JULIA LETLOW: Fauci Owes Americans Full Transparency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 the rule in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration claimed 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>The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4439\">Plurality Of Americans Think Sky High Premium Costs Is US Healthcare System\u2019s Biggest Problem, Poll Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge refused to lift an order blocking the implementation of a rule that expanded the number of people required to acquire FFLs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,657,896,2097,1757,659,106,3772,245,1056,1058,565,584,406,2845,1144],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-2a","tag-atf","tag-batf","tag-batfe","tag-biden-administration","tag-bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives","tag-department-of-justice","tag-federal-regulations","tag-firearms","tag-goa","tag-gun-owners-of-america","tag-justice-department","tag-regulations","tag-u-s-department-of-justice","tag-united-states-department-of-justice","tag-universal-background-checks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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