The Pam Bondi Justice Department continues its anti-Second Amendment engagements, this time instructing a court to deny universal relief to all gun owners and, for perhaps the first time ever, asking a court to force a plaintiff to hand over its private membership list.

The complaint in Reese v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, originated in 2020 when gun rights groups and individual plaintiffs challenged Louisiana’s prohibition on handgun purchases for adults under 21. In January of this year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a previous District Court ruling and sent the case back down for review, as we reported.

In that process, the ATF, under the Department of Justice, issued a 16-page brief to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in anticipation of the revised ruling, and as requested by the court. In this brief, the ATF/DOJ made two main arguments attempting to sway the court’s decision:

No universal relief should be entered.
The court’s judgment should be limited to the three individual plaintiffs and to any identified and verified member of the organizational plaintiffs who was a member when the suit was filed.

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