A complaint for declarative and injunctive relief was filed Friday in
the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania. Plaintiff Ryan S. Watson, acting individually and as
trustee of the Watson Family Gun Trust, is suing Attorney General Eric
H. Holder, Jr. and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Director B. Todd Jones in their official capacities for administering,
executing and enforcing “statutory and regulatory provisions [that]
generally act as an unlawful de facto ban on the transfer or possession
of a machine gun manufactured after May 19, 1986.”
Attorney David R. Scott is joined in the lawsuit by Stephen D. Stamboulieh, the Mississippi attorney who filed a similar action in Texas
on October 30 in the case of Hollis v. Holder. This latest action
differs from the first in that Watson is subject to an actual taking
resulting from actions performed under authorization of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for which approval was later
revoked.
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