Volume 36 | August 01, 2023

LSA Monthly Update

A Monthly Electronic Newsletter from the Louisiana Shooting Association, Inc.

LSA Provides Grant to Marine Corps Junior ROTC Unit

Thanks to generous LSA Members who support our Junior Shooting Programs through the purchase of M1 Garand Raffle Tickets, the LSA was able to provide the Mandeville High School MCJROTC unit a grant for $1,200. The grant will be used to purchase competition air rifles.

The Biden administration has taken action to weaponize the law to pull federal funding from school firearms and archery safety programs. The LSA may be asked to support more school programs. Your generous support for our Junior Shooting Program can help us honor more requests.

LDWF Agents Seeking Information about Black Bear Shooting in Ruston

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents are looking for information about a Louisiana Black Bear that was found with a fatal gunshot wound in Lincoln Parish on May 12.

LDWF agents and biologists responded to a report of a dead black bear off of Millie Road in Ruston. Agents and biologists found the deceased bear on the night of May 12 and it suffered from a gunshot wound.

Anyone with information regarding this illegal killing should call the Louisiana Operation Game Thief hotline at (800) 442-2511 or use LDWF’s tip411 program. To use the tip411 program, citizens can text LADWF and their tip to 847411 or download the “LADWF Tips” iPhone and Android app from the Apple App Store or Google Play free of charge.

Operation Game Thief is offering up to a $1,000 reward for anyone that has information that leads to an arrest for this case.

The hotline and the tip411 program are monitored 24 hours a day. Upon request, informants can remain anonymous.

Taking a bear during a closed season brings a $900 to $950 fine and up to 120 days. Anyone found guilty of shooting this black bear may also face civil restitution for the replacement value of the illegally taken black bear totaling $10,000.

Video: Glock Switches and Gun Laws

Anyone with a half a brain recognizes that prohibition does not work. Prohibition of alcohol in 1920 led to the rise of organized crime and bootlegging. The failed experiment was terminated in 1933 with the repeal of the 18th Amendment.

Prohibition of illegal drugs has likewise been a complete failure, but there are far too many jobs and money at stake to try something different.

The sale of so called "Glock switches," which convert the semi-automatic pistol to automatic have always been illegal, and yet criminals all over urban America have these illegal devices. The left routinely blame all gun crime on law-abiding citizens, but they have to accept this cannot be rooted in law-abiding citizens owning Glock switches.

LSA Director-at-Large and professional firearms instructor Barret Kendrick delivers an outstanding description of why gun control laws have completely failed with Glock switches and why "common sense" gun laws are not needed and simply don't work.

Watch the 5 min 42 sec video here.

“This ruling is a serious setback for the Biden administration’s gun control agenda."

Adam Kraut

Fifth Circuit Court Says Pistol Brace Rule "Likely Illegal"

In a 2-1 ruling, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said that the Biden administration’s “final rule” on pistol braces is “likely illegal” because the government violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by adopting the rule without meaningful opportunity for public comment.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives violated the APA. Writing for the majority, Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith observed, “(P)laintiffs establish a substantial likelihood of success on the merits. The ATF incorrectly maintains that the Final Rule is merely interpretive, not legislative, and thus not subject to the logical-outgrowth test. The Final Rule affects individual rights, speaks with the force of law, and significantly implicates private interests. Thus, it is legislative in character. Then, because the Final Rule bears almost no resemblance in manner or kind to the Proposed Rule, the Final Rule fails the logical-outgrowth test and violates the APA.”

Fifth Circuit Victory in Vanderstok Frame, Receiver Case

In August 2022 Jennifer VanDerStok and Tactical Machining, LLC brought a case against the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) arguing that the ATF illegally expanded the statutory definition of the terms "firearm" and "receiver." The lawsuit was initiated challenging the 2021 ATF)regulatory revisions of the Gun Control Act definitions of firearm, firearm frame, and receiver.

On June 30, 2023, federal district court judge Reed O'Connor granted a motion for summary judgment against the ATF, vacating the receiver rule nationwide on the grounds that the agency had exceeded its statutory authority. The ATF appealed O'Connor's orders to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In a July 2023 ruling, the Fifth Circuit panel said, "Because the ATF has not demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits, nor irreparable harm in the absence of a stay, we DENY the government’s request to stay the vacatur of the two challenged portions of the Rule.“ [V]acatur ...reestablish[es] the status quo ante”…which is the world before the Rule became effective. This effectively maintains, pending appeal, the status quo that existed for 54 years from 1968 to 2022.

The case has been appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The Second Amendment Foundation filed its opposition brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing a stay in its case challenging the government’s attempt to classify unfinished firearm frames and receivers as “firearms.”

Read Judge O'Connor's Summary Judgment

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