So I'm the owner of Central Texas Gun Works,
which is a gun store in Austin,
TX. We've been here since
2011. I've been teaching classes and train,
doing training for over 20 years.
And the reason I started,
you know, in the business that I was doing,
is because I wanted people to learn how to do
things the right way,
such such as my family.
I wanted my family to
learn how to shoot. I wanted them to know what
the laws were.
I wanted them to follow the law.
And so that's why I focus my business model on
training and classes because we want to make sure that
we're doing everything right.
And so when this came along,
you know, the ATF decided they were going to ban
a particular product,
you know, that caused a problem for,
you know, people that are like my customers and myself
who actually had this particular product.
And that's the the federal government's now saying that it's
actually illegal.
And so it posed the problem and we wanted to
fix that problem.
The the clock was ticking.
The government said the deadline is coming up.
You got to turn them in.
And so I was looking for some type of relief,
whether it's, you know, getting an attorney,
you know, going with an organization
trying to figure out, you know,
who could actually help us
in making, you know, making sure I didn't lose,
you know, a product that I actually purchased legal and,
you know, legally in this country.
And so luckily I was able to find NCLA.
They were looking for a client,
I was looking for an attorney and it was a
match made in heaven.
And so we were able to file a lawsuit against
the federal government.
And it's not just about,
you know, it's not just about firearms.
It's it's just about an agency within the the government's
assigned to,
you know say something that was legally purchased.
It's now illegal. So the bump stock goes on the
for example like an AR
you it goes on the the butt stock of the
AR in and around the grip.
And so it's you use the recoil,
the reaction from the gun firing to actually you know
pull the trigger to actually fire and you actually have
to pull the trigger and touch the trigger and engage
the trigger in order for it to fire.
So IA lot of customers that actually purchased them and
more people,
more people are actually interested in them as the band
came about.
And so there are people that were you know,
prior military, you know disabled because I I have a
a large amount of customers that actually have some type
of disability.
I just recently I had the opportunity to teach a
young man how to shoot again who has no arms
and hands and so I taught him how to shoot
with his feet. So we have people that come to
us for,
you know, different disabilities and we try to find a
way to help them,
you know, because they're trying to either knock off something
in their bucket list or they're trying to accomplish something
and we're able to help them accomplish that.
It it it, it really
goes back to, you know,
freedom and it goes back to just the basics of
something that
my customers and myself legally purchase.
The government should not have that power,
that authority and an agency,
an administrative agency, ability to come back and ban that,
you know, something that Congress has not banned.
It's that that's gonna be a job that's reserved for
Congress.
That's how our contribution was written.
We have different branches of government and an agency within
the federal government does not have that type of power.
And I don't think you know that the Supreme Court,
you know, intended for the
an agency to actually do something to this extent.