Robert K. Merting - Attorney at Law
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Federal law has long prohibited illegal users of controlled substances from possessing firearms. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) (prohibiting from firearm possession any person “who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)”). Who is an Unlawful User Historically, an unlawful user included Read More …
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 …
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 …