Court Opinion

ID: 5089410
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 15:02:15.271084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:20:33.755259
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Case: 20-1107    Document: 67     Page: 1   Filed: 10/01/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

   MODERN SPORTSMAN, LLC, RW ARMS, LTD.,
     MARK MAXWELL, MICHAEL STEWART,
             Plaintiffs-Appellants

                             v.

                    UNITED STATES,
                    Defendant-Appellee
                  ______________________

                        2020-1107
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims
 in No. 1:19-cv-00449-LAS, Senior Judge Loren A. Smith.
                  ______________________

                 Decided: October 1, 2021
                 ______________________

     JENNIFER GELMAN, Flint Law Firm LLC, Edwardsville,
 IL, argued for plaintiffs-appellants. Also represented by
 ADAM MICHAEL RILEY.

     KENNETH DINTZER, Commercial Litigation Branch,
 Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Wash-
 ington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. Also repre-
 sented by JEFFREY B. CLARK, ROBERT EDWARD KIRSCHMAN,
 JR., LOREN MISHA PREHEIM, NATHANAEL YALE.
Case: 20-1107      Document: 67     Page: 2   Filed: 10/01/2021

 2               THE MODERN SPORTSMAN, LLC    v. UNITED STATES

      MARK W. PENNAK, Law Offices of Mark W. Pennak,
 Chevy Chase, MD, for amicus curiae Maryland Shall Issue,
 Inc.

     PRAATIKA PRASAD, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New
 York, NY, for amici curiae Paul Baumbach, Vic Bencomo,
 Jim Berzowski, Matthew DeFalco, Scarlett Flores, David
 Fitz, Peter Gurfein, Megan Harper, George Higgins, Bob
 Mokos, Mike Meyers, Jim Pederson, Matt Pierce, Conner
 Siegel, Whitney Toutenhoofd. Also represented by SCOTT
 EDELMAN, Los Angeles, CA; VIVEK R. GOPALAN, San Fran-
 cisco, CA; HANNAH SHEARER, Giffords Law Center to Pre-
 vent Gun Violence, San Francisco, CA.
                  ______________________

     Before TARANTO, WALLACH, * and CHEN, Circuit Judges.
     Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TARANTO.
     Opinion concurring in the result filed by Circuit Judge
                          WALLACH.
 TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
     The Modern Sportsman, LLC, RW Arms, Ltd., Mark
 Maxwell, and Michael Stewart (collectively, Modern
 Sportsman) sued the United States in the Court of Federal
 Claims (Claims Court), alleging that the Bureau of Alcohol,
 Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives had, through promulga-
 tion of Bump-Stock-Type Devices, 83 Fed. Reg. 66,514 (Dec.
 26, 2018) (Final Rule), taken its bump stocks in violation of
 the Fifth Amendment. J.A. 37–44 (Amended Complaint).
    The government moved to dismiss Modern Sports-
 man’s amended complaint for failure to state a claim on
 which relief can be granted. The Claims Court granted the

       *Circuit Judge Evan J. Wallach assumed senior sta-
 tus on May 31, 2021.
Case: 20-1107    Document: 67     Page: 3     Filed: 10/01/2021

 THE MODERN SPORTSMAN, LLC   v. UNITED STATES               3

 government’s motion and dismissed Modern Sportsman’s
 amended complaint. Modern Sportsman, LLC v. United
 States, 145 Fed. Cl. 575 (2019); J.A. 10 (Judgment).
      Modern Sportsman timely appealed. We have jurisdic-
 tion under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(3). We heard oral argument
 in this and a related case, McCutchen v. United States, No.
 2020-1188, as the cases present materially identical issues.
 See Fed. R. App. P. 3(b). For the same reasons we today
 affirm the Claims Court’s judgment in the McCutchen case,
 we affirm the Claims Court’s judgment in the present case.
    The parties shall bear their own costs.
                        AFFIRMED
Case: 20-1107    Document: 67     Page: 4   Filed: 10/01/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

   MODERN SPORTSMAN, LLC, RW ARMS, LTD.,
     MARK MAXWELL, MICHAEL STEWART,
             Plaintiffs-Appellants

                             v.

                    UNITED STATES,
                    Defendant-Appellee
                  ______________________

                        2020-1107
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims
 in No. 1:19-cv-00449-LAS, Senior Judge Loren A. Smith.
                  ______________________

 WALLACH, Circuit Judge, concurring in the result.
      This appeal is related to McCutchen v. United States,
 No. 2020-1188 (Fed. Cir. 2021), decided concurrently. For
 all reasons stated in my concurrence in McCutchen, I con-
 cur in affirming the Court of Federal Claims’ decision in
 Modern Sportsman, LLC v. United States, 145 Fed. Cl. 575
 (2019). See McCutchen, No. 2020-1188 (Wallach, E., con-
 curring).