Court restrains ATF from seizing Ares Armor inventory and customer records

The order is the result of a motion filed Tuesday by Ares Armor for a temporary injunction, directly naming ATF Director B. Todd Jones as a defendant “in his Official Capacity as Head of The San Diego ATF Field Office,” citing that “Ares Armor is likely to succeed on the merits ... The ATF’s planned seizure violates the Fourth Amendment [and] The ATF mischaracterizes ‘EP 80 percent lower receivers’ as firearms as a pretense to seize customer information,” among the reasons. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes ATF still reversing its own precedents, making things up to suit administration purposes, and our right to property and privacy be damned.