N.R.A. to Sue Over Bulk Gun Sales Rule

The National Rifle Association on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging a new federal regulation requiring gun merchants along the border with Mexico to report bulk sales of certain semiautomatic rifles, contending that the Obama administration exceeded its powers by imposing the rule last month without Congressional permission.

The NRA opposes all restrictions on gun ownership, operating under the rubric that any restriction is the beginning of outright banning of gun ownership. Stupid and nonsensical, but that is their ideology.

“We will vigorously oppose that lawsuit,” Mr. Holder told reporters on Wednesday. “We think that the action we have taken is consistent with the law and that the measures that we are proposing are appropriate ones to stop the flow of guns from the United States into Mexico.”

Unless, of course, as with Operation Fast an Furious, it is the policy of the government to flood Mexico with guns.