In October, a coalition of public and private firearms rights defenders “filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit opposing the ATF’s unlawful attempt to expand the scope of the 1986 machine gun ban (also known as the Hughes Amendment) through its prosecution of former Iowa Police Chief Bradley Wendt,” a Palmetto State Armory video announces.
“Amici curiae [friends of the court] consist of firearms associations, States, and two companies that design, produce, and sell firearms,” the brief declares, identifying them as the “Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation, Palmetto State Armory, B&T USA, and the states of West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Utah in support of defendant appellant” Wendt.
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