CNS News By Ashlianna Kreiner | June 29, 2021
GOP Senators: ATF Rule Change ‘Largest’ Gun ‘Registration and Confiscation Scheme’ in U.S. History
Nearly all of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate sent a letter to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) challenging a proposed rule (2021R-08) on the use of stabilizing braces, which would reclassify many pistols as short-barreled rifles. This change would threaten "to turn law-abiding Americans into criminals,” said the Republicans in the June 24 letter.
The ATF proposal, "Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached 'Stabilizing Braces," was published in the Federal Register on June 10. The rule supposedly would seek to “clarify” that uses of stabilizing braces fall within the guidelines set by the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934.
“[T]he way the proposed rule is written makes clear that ATF intends to bring the most common uses of the most widely possessed stabilizing braces within the purview of the NFA,” reads the letter. “Doing so would turn millions of law-abiding Americans into criminals overnight, and would constitute the largest executive branch-imposed gun registration and confiscation scheme in American history.”
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