Nov 25, 2022
Central Texas Gunworks owner Michael Cargill has filed a federal lawsuit agains the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives alleging that the government agency is abusing its powers under the Gun Control Act of 1968 to shut down federally licensed firearm retailers for minor clerical and paperwork errors; a practice that Cargill's attorneys say ignores the actual law. According to the text of the GCA, the ATF has to find evidence of "willful" misconduct on the part of these FFLs; something that Cargill and his attorneys say is missing from many of the recent revocation notices the ATF has been handing out. According to the lawsuit, the new policy under President Biden's team at ATF has turned longtime record-keeping requirements that are supposed to prevent criminals and other dangerous people from buying guns into a weapon against the firearm industry. "The act allows the federal government to revoke gun dealers' license to sell firearms commonl