The Biden administration may be gone, but one of its strangest anti-gun prosecutions is somehow still rolling forward. And Gun Owners of America wants answers.
The case involves Tim Durkin, a Kansas gun owner, entrepreneur, and GOA member who helped local gun shops stay alive during the COVID years.
The strange part? He is being prosecuted for “engaging in the business” of selling firearms… without ever actually selling a firearm.
Durkin runs Durkin Tactical, an online parts business that doesn’t sell guns and doesn’t need an FFL.
But during the 2020–2021 supply-chain meltdown, he did what any well-connected gun guy would do: he used his relationship with Anderson Manufacturing to help Kansas gun stores get inventory when the shelves were bare.
The guns went directly from Anderson to licensed dealers. Those dealers logged everything correctly, ran background checks, and sold the firearms to their customers like normal.
Durkin never touched a firearm. Never shipped one. Never received one. He simply made introductions between businesses.
In most worlds, that’s called helping your community. In Biden’s ATF world, that was called a felony.
ATF even sent Durkin a cease-and-desist letter in 2022. He complied. Two years went by with zero issues.
Then, in the final months of the Biden era, the agency decided compliance wasn’t enough and pushed DOJ to charge him anyway.
According to GOA’s breakdown, the Gun Control Act doesn’t even criminalize unlicensed brokering. The word “broker” isn’t in the statute. Congress uses that term in other laws, so when it’s missing, it’s missing on purpose.
Fast-forward to today. A new administration is in town. President Trump vowed to end the weaponization of government. DOJ leadership promised to deprioritize paperwork cases.
GOA even notes that the new ATF general counsel was already fired for targeting gun owners.
So why is Tim Durkin still facing federal charges for helping gun shops survive?
Every FFL involved followed the law. Every buyer passed a background check. No one was harmed, and small businesses got through COVID because someone bothered to pick up a phone.
GOA is calling on the Trump administration to end the prosecution and keep its word on protecting the Second Amendment. Because if a guy can be charged for introducing two legal businesses, then no gun owner is safe from bureaucratic theories invented on the fly.
The story is still developing, as always, stay tuned for updates.
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