Posted on 04/21/2023 9:37:45 AM PDT by Joe Brower
House committee advances disapproval resolution on gun rule
Republicans look to block a Biden administration rule to strengthen regulations on firearms with stabilizing braces
Roll Call
Ryan Tarinelli
4/20/2023
The House Judiciary Committee advanced a joint resolution Thursday that would block a Biden administration rule to strengthen regulations on firearms with stabilizing braces.
The 23-15 vote along party lines on the measure is the latest confrontation between GOP lawmakers and the administration over actions to address gun violence and mass shootings.
The rule from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives would require gun owners before June to register pistols with stabilizing braces that turn them into short-barreled rifles. Other options for gun owners include surrendering the firearm or taking off the stabilizing brace from the firearm.
House Republicans call the regulation an overreach, and have said the ATF has given conflicting messages in the past on the topic and the rule will expose unknowing gun owners to criminal liability.
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie said during a markup that the device was designed to help people with disabilities stabilize a pistol.
“It’s a plastic accessory. This thing can’t shoot a bullet. It doesn’t function like a gun. It is a plastic accessory,” Massie said.
The committee originally planned a vote on the stabilizing brace resolution last month. A shooter at a private school in Nashville killed three 9-year-old children and three adults the day before, and the committee postponed the markup.
Democrats pointed to that delay to argue against the resolution and said Republicans were trying to roll back a rule that’s meant to protect the public from dangerous weapons.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said the gun industry, through selling stabilizing braces, found a new way to circumvent the restrictions in the National Firearms Act. The accessory allows for a pistol to be fired from the shoulder, turning it into a short-barreled rifle that is concealable, Nadler said.
Texas Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt said some use the AR-15 as a scapegoat to pursue more restrictions.
“You want to go after the AR-15 first to then eventually get to the pistol, to disarm Americans to infringe on our Second Amendment rights,” Hunt said. “I want you to know something. It ain’t the gun, it’s the homicidal maniac.”
At a separate House hearing Tuesday, ATF Director Steven Dettelbach said the agency had been inconsistent in the past on the issue, but he defended the rollout of the rule and argued there were changes to the products in the marketplace.
“We went back and forth with the industry on what qualified something to be a short-barreled rifle. The rule is aimed at clarifying that,” Dettelbach told lawmakers on the House Appropriations subcommittee.
Sounds like good news. It’s not over ‘til it’s over, though.
Who conveniently had a braced AR on them, but didn't use it in the killings. They instead used a Kel-Tec 9mm Pistol-Caliber Carbine (PCC.)
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The 9mm carbine for the murders.
A 16" rifle, with a folding stock or a bullpup is more "concealable" than a 10.5" pistol and because of better velocity, more "deadly".
The 16" NFA rule was an arbitrary compromise, anyway.
I thought that the deadline was April 30.
***“You want to go after the AR-15 first to then eventually get to the pistol,***
For decades the anti-gun radicals “Only wanted to ban handguns! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected!”
Then in 1984 they found rifles to be a bigger and better target to attack.
They have been after rifles ever since. If they can get any type of ban to stick, then they will use the same formula go go after their original target, handguns.
A hammer could have been used on the doors. Ban hammers.
May 31, 2023
Wow!
GOP lays on an ass-kicking to our communist masters...
This is just the “stern” stuff that is needed to scare the pants of them...
/s
The GOP circle jerk continues...
I was in a local shop and some guy asked if he could own a brace, still in the box, purchased a couple years ago. I said I have no idea, but probably, as long as it’s never been mounted.
Shop owner was very careful answering. After the customer left, I asked, “Fed?” and the owner said, you never know. Said he always tries not to opine on gray issues these days.
I said it is likely legal, but who wants the legal hassle if F-Troop shows up?
😉👌
“They instead …”
What’s up with this “they” merde? SHE instead …
Ah, someone finally noticed! YOU WIN!!
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