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

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Republican lawmakers and gun rights groups slammed the Biden administration after ATF finalized a new rule regulating pistols equipped with a stabilizing brace accessory as a short-barreled rifle.

Republican lawmakers and gun rights groups blastedThe Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives 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.

"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.

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

 

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Fox News is wrong again in this article. There is over 40 million Americans that have these. In the article they estimate 3 million of them in circulation. Not even close Fox.

Pistol braces have been around for 10 years there are thousands of Americans with them

1. The ATF cannot make laws or modify laws. Only Congress can. 2. All federal, state and local laws restricting the ownership of ARMS is unconstitutional. 3. All elected officials and unelected officials who support these'laws' are violating the Civil Rights of the people.

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