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Legion, You may have heard the Fifth Circuit recently reversed the district court in our Texas case against Gurbir Grewal and will allow our First Amendment suit against his wretched state laws to proceed. That opinion is below. The Third Circuit held out for that decision in the Fifth and then issued a divided panel […]

A one paragraph order from our panel in the Ninth Circuit. Upon a review of the record, the briefing on the motion to dismiss, and the responses to the court’s June 19, 2020 order, we conclude that these appeals are moot because no present controversy exists as to which any effective relief may be granted […]

Legionnaires, The Ninth Circuit has asked DD and SAF to explain just why, after getting fucked by judge Lasnik and half the states in the Union, we would have standing to appeal said fucking. On July 10 we filed the first brief on this question. I personally enjoy the part where you’re seven years into […]

Legionnaires, Yesterday DD filed our appellant’s brief in the Ninth Circuit. This is the appeal from the decision in State of Washington v. Dep’t of State et al., No. C18-1115-RSL (W.D. Wash). You may access the brief below. The argument will look familiar. The States simply didn’t have standing to bring the challenge. They could […]

Legionnaires, On May 8, DD filed a response to the blue state attempt to dismiss their 2018 action against us and the State Department in Seattle. A funny thing about this phase of the appeal: Should the states succeed in dismissing the case as moot, our original publication license from the State Department reactivates. As […]

Legionnaires, Yesterday the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Defense Distributed v. Grewal, No. 19-50723. You may listen to the recording here. This morning the Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal with the Ninth Circuit in the most recent ITAR case AG Ferguson and company brought in Washington (State of […]

Legionnaires, Our many legal actions proceed apace: In Defense Distributed v. Grewal, No. 1:18-cv-00637-RP (W.D. Tex.) and No. 19-50723 (5th Cir.), the Fifth Circuit has scheduled oral arguments for May 4th. AG Grewal attempted to delay the date with a vague appeal to legal emergencies related to Covid (I have written about this tactic elsewhere), […]

Legionnaires, Thank you for making DEFCAD’s March relaunch such a success. We’ve signed up thousands of new members and transferred even more files. It’s a good time to launch a digital product in this country. You may have seen rumblings online from the nation’s many attorneys general that the operation of our site is somehow […]

Legionnaires, I bring you good tidings. As you head into your weekend lockdowns, I’d like to mark a special occasion. DD resumed shipments of the Ghost Gunner 3 this week. Global supply lines would appear to be stabilizing since February, and DD doesn’t expect further manufacturing interruptions or delays. And a special note on Contract […]

Legionnaires, Though it hasn’t been covered much in the media, Judge Jones in Seattle issued an injunction on Friday evening, March 6th, forbidding the State Department from releasing its controls on technical data related to small arms. This order preserves the status quo we have come to know since 2013, which permits no legal way […]