Robert K. Merting - Attorney at Law
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Big news earlier this year was the Rare Breed settlement with the ATF that allowed the sale of their Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) without limitations by the NFA. The ATF has been busy implementing that settlement and processing the requests for returns of confiscated FRTs. (Surprise, Surprise; the ATF cannot locate the confiscated FRTs and Read More …
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 is wrapping up his first 100 days of his second administration. Having taken four years to watch the destruction direction of the previous administration, he had a few different ideas to implement. While most of that action is outside my area of interest, a few had to do with firearms. Rights Restoration As discussed in 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 …