See You in Court, ATF
What to Know: The Texas Public Policy Foundation is representing a Texas gun shop in a case against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Under the Biden administration, the agency is misusing a rule to shut down gun retailers for clerical mistakes in customers’ paperwork.
The TPPF Take: TPPF attorneys are standing up for the Second Amendment.
“The Biden administration’s new policy is simply unlawful under the very statute that it purports to enforce. The law only allows revocations for ‘willful’ violations; that doesn’t include inadvertent clerical mistakes,” says TPPF’s Matt Miller. “Businesses that commit clerical mistakes are not ‘rogue firearm dealers.’ This new ATF policy is simply an instrument of Biden’s anti-gun agenda, in clear violation of federal law, demonstrated by the over 500% increase in license revocations since he took office.”
For more on our case against the ATF, click here.
The Bright Side?
What to Know: Many Texans are facing skyrocketing power bills, in large part due to Biden administration policies and discrimination from the finance industry that are raising the price of natural gas. Yet the Dallas Morning News recently quoted a study that says wind and solar power saved Texans $7 billion so far this year. What gives?
The TPPF Take: Texas families know they’re paying far more, not less, for their electricity.
“If wind and solar are as cheap and reliable as their proponents claim, why are Texans paying more for an electric grid that is becoming increasingly volatile?” asks TPPF’s Brent Bennett. “Because the reliability and transmission costs of wind and solar are absorbed through regulatory charges to ratepayers, the wholesale market favors wind and solar generation without accounting for their total cost to the system.”
For more on your electric bills, click here.
What’s the Strategy Here?
What to Know: President Biden is releasing another 15 million barrels of oil from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve (SPR)—just before the November midterm elections.
The TPPF Take: Biden is shamelessly depleting our SPR to buy votes.
“The SPR has been used not as a store of energy to mitigate the effects of another Arab oil embargo, nor in the event of a major war, but to purchase political popularity,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “This view is further fortified by revelations out of Saudi Arabia that Biden begged the Saudis to delay the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ production cut until after the November elections.”
For more on the SPR, click here.