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2023-01-17 -Land of the Free

GOP lawmakers, NRA slam ATF rule to regulate pistol braces: 'Unconstitutional overreach'

Reads like victims were beaten with the pistol braces.
[FoxNews] Republican lawmakers and gun rights groups blasted the Biden administration over a new rule that tightens regulations on pistol stabilizing braces.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF) finalized a new regulation Friday that will treat guns with stabilizing accessories like short-barreled rifles, which require a federal license to own under the National Firearms Act.

The move is part of a comprehensive gun crime strategy President Biden announced in April 2021, in response to the massacre at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where a gunman using a stabilizing brace killed 10 people. A stabilizing brace was also used in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that left nine people dead in 2019.

Announcing the rule, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that stabilizing brace accessories, which were designed to help disabled combat veterans enjoy recreational shooting, transform pistols into short-barreled rifles.

"Keeping our communities safe from gun violence is among the Department’s highest priorities," Garland said. "Almost a century ago, Congress determined that short-barreled rifles must be subject to heightened requirements. Today’s rule makes clear that firearm manufacturers, dealers, and individuals cannot evade these important public safety protections simply by adding accessories to pistols that transform them into short-barreled rifles."

"Certain so-called stabilizing braces are designed to just attach to pistols, essentially converting them into short-barreled rifles to be fired from the shoulder," said ATF Director Steven Dettelbach. "Therefore, they must be treated in the same way under the statute."

Second Amendment advocates were apoplectic over new requirements for gun owners to register existing pistols equipped with stabilizing braces with the government within 120 days, or else remove the brace or surrender the firearm to ATF.

"The Biden administration chose to shred the Constitution today," the National Rifle Association said.

"Joe Biden is an enemy of our Second Amendment," the group added.

Gun Owners of America, which bills itself as the only "no-compromise" gun lobby in Washington, D.C., vowed to file a lawsuit challenging Biden's new ATF regulation.

"This admin continues to find ways to attack gun owners. We will continue to work with our industry partners to amplify the disapproving voices in the firearms industry and [Gun Owners Foundation], our sister legal arm, will be filing suit in the near future," said Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America.

"Pres. Biden just initiated the largest federal gun registration scheme in our nation’s history w/o even the passage of a new law. GOA is actively working with Congress to pass a resolution blocking this rule under the Congressional Review Act," added the organization's director of federal affairs, Aidan Johnston.

Their cause was taken up by Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., who in June 2021 wrote a letter signed by 140 lawmakers expressing opposition to the proposed rule on stabilizing braces.

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File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Biden’s MLK Speech: ‘Ban the Number of Bullets That Go in a Magazine’

Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-17 06:52|| 2023-01-17 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Capacity problem? No, it's a cultural problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-17 06:56|| 2023-01-17 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Any gun control rule is unconstitutional

Posted by DarthVader 2023-01-17 08:11|| 2023-01-17 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the feds continue this barrage of unconstitutional stuff because the Supreme Court can’t take all the cases so some of the bad laws and regs stick for a period of time. The language of the Constitution is pretty close to absolute, although no reasonable person would demand the right of incarcerated people to have guns during their incarceration. The New York stuff where the state leadership ignores the Supreme Court seems uncommon to me since Martin Luther King was alive.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-17 09:38|| 2023-01-17 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Seems like to purpose of the pistol brace is to enhance gun control. DV says any gun control is unconstitutional but you'd think Democrats would like it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-01-17 11:59|| 2023-01-17 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons) discusses this in Why Are Short Barreled Rifles Actually Regulated in the US? I found it informative.

Posted by magpie 2023-01-17 12:42|| 2023-01-17 12:42|| Front Page Top

#7 So the ATF prefers guns to be less accurate?

Posted by ruprecht 2023-01-17 13:19|| 2023-01-17 13:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Re #6. It beautifully encapsulates the folly of the liberal thought process - short-barreled rifles are not regulated because they are more dangerous but because the regulation already exists due to some past dumb, arbitrary choice that, because it is now written in law, becomes sacred to the left.

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