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Last week in Defense Distributed v. YouTube (1:25-cv-01095-ADA), after Judge Albright surprised Team Google with a dramatic motions hearing, YouTube’s motion to transfer was denied. You’re welcome to read that hearing’s transcript. Google’s attempt to transfer our case to California failed. And this failure is the first endorsement of the new reading the law’s framers […]

Two interesting developments in Defense Distributed v. YouTube (1:25-CV-01095-ADA, W.D. Tex.), the state court case Google couldn’t help but bring into the federal system: 1. Judge Albright, a Trump appointee, snatched the case up from the magistrate sua sponte. 2. Judge Albright has set a hearing, one week from today, concerning Defense Distributed and Google’s […]

No (primal) father should have to bury his (disabled) child. The young perish while the old linger. Alas, that these evil days should be mine! Yes, the FOSSCAD subreddit was banned on Friday, September 26th for violating “Rule 7.” Among others, I have been scapegoated because I mentioned FOSSCAD in a federal lawsuit filed the […]

On Friday Defense Distributed filed our reply to the ATF’s objection to our motion for an injunction against the Biden/Trump “frame or receiver” rule. It’s a Trump rule now not just because his DOJ defends it, but because it gives the rule novel interpretations never attempted in the Biden years. This filing was more enjoyable […]

Just in time to celebrate that civil war we won in the 1770s to reject Hanoverian imperialism, NPR warns us that ghost guns may not be so dead. They may even be doing that whole revenant thing which, in fairness, ghosts are known to do. Bondiland Military Populism Just a word about the two legal […]

Defense Distributed v. Bondi Last Friday Defense Distributed made its first filings in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s VanDerStok decision. Unlike the case’s other plaintiffs, we’ve maintained fully briefed Second and Fifth Amendment arguments that can now have their day. AG Bondi and the Trump DOJ asked for a sixty (60) day stay to […]

On Friday the Trump DOJ announced a settlement with Rare Breed Triggers, which in a significant way ends the public battle over Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs). This was broadcast by our government as a win for the Second Amendment: My opinion of this outcome is biased by our own (ongoing) DOJ settlement conversations in what’s […]

Last week ATF raided and arrested the moderators of a Discord server connected to the interstate development and sale of 3D NFA items. Though one of these moderators may have been a confidential informant, word is the raids were simply the result of an(other) anonymous tip. When a journalist asked me if this is the […]

Reason has two excellent pieces on the takeaways from Bondi v. VanDerStok. Today’s is a survey of the judicial cowardice of the Court’s “Salerno rule” by professor Josh Blackman, a Defense Distributed attorney. The Salerno rule was how Judge Sutton of the Sixth Circuit saved Obamacare’s individual mandate back in 2011. It featured in Justice […]

Repeat Supreme Court losers Defense Distributed and Ghost Gunner are proud to present the death of the 80% and kit gun markets, compliments of the Trump administration and AG Bondi, whose name should be on this opinion. The frame and receiver case is at long last decided, and since some of the plaintiffs (RIP Polymer80) […]