Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5188

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), a component of the Department of Justice, for 1,900 pages of records about a proposed reclassification that would effectively ban certain types of AR-15 ammunition as armor-piercing (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02218)).

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the agency failed to respond to a May 14, 2018, FOIA request for the 1,900 documents about the Obama administration's AR-15 ammo ban efforts. The documents include ATF talking points about the "Armor Piercing Ammunition Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" and other records discussing ammunition classification.

The lawsuit is the latest development in Judicial Watch's more than three-year effort to obtain documents from the ATF. Judicial Watch discovered the document cache in separate litigation on the ammo ban issue.

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