A quick note and word of thanks regarding yesterday’s decision in the Northern District of Texas. Judge O’Connor decided what was left of the VanDerStok case, granting DD and SAF summary judgment on our Second and Fifth Amendment claims. The decision, Defense Distributed v. Blanche, No. 4:22-cv-00691-O, 2026 WL 2413200 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 17, 2026), upholds the Second Amendment right to make firearms squarely and expressly, fulfilling the Bruen text, history, and tradition inquiries.
Previous decisions like the Tenth Circuit’s Nat’l Ass’n for Gun Rights v. Polis, 173 F.4th 1317 (10th Cir. 2026), or even Rigby, don’t do what was accomplished in Defense Distributed, making ours the leading decision for a Second Amendment private right to make firearms.
Everytown, Giffords, and Brady all managed to vomit up objections. Eric Tirschwell, executive director of Everytown Law, replied to a request for comment from Reuters, saying:
There is no Second Amendment right to buy or sell an untraceable ghost gun kit without a background check.”
I don’t know, Eric. It looks like there might be.
Most of what I have left to say about this has already been said in my 3D2A: History and Value, now on Amazon. A “win” like this first required the extinction of our industry and a stupendous loss at the Supreme Court. The conceptual heart of the Defense Distributed project was realized by so much Bloomberg money and the unlimited conniving of Biden-era utopians. We act only under the fascination of the impossible, gang.
I’d also like to thank our LEGIO members for funding what Bloomberg wouldn’t.
Let’s hope the Trump people appeal.