Today the US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two gun-related cases: Garland v. Cargill, which challenges the ATF “bump stock” regulation, and NRA v. Vullo, which seeks to hold NY liable for taking regulatory actions in retaliation for NRA’s political stances.
Cargill will be interesting. For quite some time the courts have given “Chevron deference” to an agency’s interpretation of ambiguous statutes. Some members of the Court have challenged that, as abdication of the Court’s responsibilities. Cargill is a fine vehicle for challenging that, since ATF reversed its position on bump-stocks (I seem to recall more than once). How does