WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(Ammoland.com)- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced the Second Amendment Preservation Act which is a bill that would prevent federal funds from being used to enforce any measure, law, regulation, or guidance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) issued after November 1, 2020.
After the Presidential election, the Biden transition team contacted the ATF to see what their top priorities will be for the new administration. Acting ATF Director Regina Lombardo and Acting Assistant Director Marvin Richardson responded that their top priorities were pistol braces and unserialized firearms. As soon as it appeared that Biden won the election, the ATF started tackling their biggest concerns.
The ATF raided Polymer80 and started showing up at firearms dealers that sold unfinished frames. They radically changed what they considered firearms after the Biden victory. According to the agency, a kit with a jig and a frame was enough to consider it a gun. The ATF believed anyone selling the kits was selling unregistered firearms. Biden’s win emboldened the ATF.
Then right before Christmas, the ATF submitted a letter to the National Registry, which would make almost every pistol brace on the market into a stock. They were about to turn millions of Americans into felons overnight. Only because of the massive public outcry and enraged Congress members did the ATF pull their letter. No one believes that the ATF will stop trying to change the definition of pistol braces and unfinished frames.
What Rep. Greene’s bill will do is stop the ATF in their tracks. Without funding, they will not be able to enforce changes to long-held definitions of devices as they did with bump stocks to make de facto gun laws. Rep. Green believes only Congress can make laws, and the law enforcement agency has overstepped its bounds.
The bill has won praise from firearms advocacy organizations like Gun Owners of America (GOA). The group endorsed Rep Greene during her campaign, citing her commitment to defending the Second Amendment. Greene is a gun owner and a staunch supporter of the right to bear arms.
“President Biden has promised to take on gun owners and pursue the most aggressive gun control agenda in history,” Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs for GOA, stated. “He’s vowed to attack the gun rights of seniors, ban the distribution of 3D printed gun files, and target pistol braced firearms and 80 percent receivers. However, the Second Amendment Preservation Act cuts at the heart of the enforcement of any legislation by any agency—through cutting its funding—and prevents any of Biden’s measures from going into effect.”
“This legislation harmonizes with the clear mandate of ‘shall not be infringed’ in the Second Amendment and gives gun owners a tool to peaceably fight back against unconstitutional gun control measures,” Johnston concluded.
Rep Greene has been a lightning rod for Democrat’s attacks on the Hill. Greene was an ardent Trump supporter and not your average politician. Democrats went as far as to try to remove her from committees and wanted to prevent her from being seated. Greene fought back and refused to bend a knee to the establishment.
The bill will face a tough road through Congress, but Rep Greene vows to keep pushing for pro-gun bills.
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Acts such as this at the local, state and federal level serve to ‘out’ progressives, socialists and communists who are feigning ‘liberalism’ in both parties. Republicans like Rubio, Collins, Romney, Murkdowski and many, many others will finally have to commit to recorded votes on whether or not they support the founding documents of this country. When that time comes they will stand with the leftists and socialists who have hated America as a Federal Republic for decades. Force them to shed their sheep skins and stand for their true beliefs. It is not that hard. Our Declaration of Independence, the… Read more »
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But wait there is more from the Cuban Ice Cream Man, and Roach Coach Operator:
Call and write rubio and Scott and tell him to withdraw the Terror Intelligence Improvement Act.
This so-called ‘supporter of the Second Amendment’ is trying to revive the
“Terror Intelligence Improvement Act.”
Rubio’s proposed legislation would grant the federal government the power to
delay gun purchases and “Red Flag” people investigated for “domestic terrorism.
This law will target law-abiding citizens who have not committed a crime, in other words, it’s an unconstitutional “pre crime” program similar to what you’d expect to see in Communist China.
Pelosi will keep any gun friendly legislation from ever reaching the floor for a vote and most won’t make it out of committee.
Do you think that the national guard is being kept in D.C. to protect the congress members from legislation that they are going to ram through such as a new firearm ban and they know what the outrage will be?
The people who voted for Biden have opened up a can of worms.
Rep. Greene, thanks for supporting gun owners. Thank you also for being a thorn in the demoncrats rear end! Keep up the good work.