Court issues final decision on distributor’s 7N6 importation challenge

By Daniel Terrill

Almost a year after issuing a summary judgment dismissing large portions of the lawsuit, a Seattle federal court filed a final decision to dismiss the case alleging ATF overreach by a Washington gun distributor.
The federal court handed down the decision last week against P.W. Arms, which argued it lost $3 million when the ATF authorized it to import a specific type of Russian ammunition right before prohibiting it.
U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour signed the final order in April to address attorney fees for challenging ATF’s neglect of a Freedom of Information Act request. P.W. Arms asked for insight into the process for determining whether or not a type of ammo is armor piercing. The ATF waited 20 months before responding.
Coughenour called the ATF’s response “egregious and a violation of FOIA,” but denied the company’s motion asking to recover $104,231 in legal fees.
Last August, Coughenour ruled to strike large portions of the complaint against ATF, saying the agency’s decision to re-classify the ammo in question was not “arbitrary and capricious” under the language of the law and pointed out that the ATF may revoke an importation permit at any time.
According to court documents, ATF permitted P.W. Arms to import 7N6

Source: Guns.com