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NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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MODERN SPORTSMAN, LLC, RW ARMS, LTD.,
MARK MAXWELL, MICHAEL STEWART,
Plaintiffs-Appellants
v.
UNITED STATES,
Defendant-Appellee
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2020-1107
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Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims
in No. 1:19-cv-00449-LAS, Senior Judge Loren A. Smith.
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Decided: October 1, 2021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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MODERN SPORTSMAN, LLC, RW ARMS, LTD.,
MARK MAXWELL, MICHAEL STEWART,
Plaintiffs-Appellants
v.
UNITED STATES,
Defendant-Appellee
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2020-1107
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Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims
in No. 1:19-cv-00449-LAS, Senior Judge Loren A. Smith.
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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).
