Robert K. Merting - Attorney at Law
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This past Independence Day President Trump signed into law his Big Beautiful Bill™. What better way to celebrate our independence from the overbearing mother land than with a brand new 940-page law? National Firearms Act Rollercoaster The new law affects the NFA, and what exactly would be done has been a rollercoaster. The House version originally Read More …
The House of Representatives advanced Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill™ before recessing for Memorial Day. Unless your existence resembles a cave dwelling troglodyte, you are likely aware that the Big Beautiful Bill™ is a grab bag of Trump’s legislative agenda. The goal is to combine many prerogatives, most of them taxes and spending, into a single Read More …
President Trump has given new life to an old provision of law. Not able to push much of his agenda through Congress, the President has looked for other ways to use his delegated authority to accomplish his goals. For firearm rights, this has meant restarting a method of rights restoration not viable for thirty years. The Read More …
That is essentially the question answered by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Reese v. BATFE, No. 23-3003 (5th Circuit 2025) when it considered whether eighteen- to twenty-year-old persons have the right to purchase handguns from Federal Firearm Licensees. Spoiler: Reese 1; BATFE 0. The Second Amendment Covers More than the right ‘to own and bear arms.’ Read More …
The 2018 lawsuit challenging the ATF’s reclassification of bump stocks from plastic accessories to machine guns has finally made its way to a Supreme Court decision. While some laws may take over a century to be struck down, this one only took six years. Practically lightening speed! And yes, you read that right. The ATF’s Read More …