The U.S. House is expected to hold a vote next week on H.J.Res.44, legislation that would overturn the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) pistol brace rule. H.J.Res.44, sponsored by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) and Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), is a disapproval resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that would invalidate ATF’s brace rule and block the agency from reissuing the same rule in the future. The U.S. Senate may consider companion legislation sponsored by Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) shortly thereafter. Please contact your federal legislators today and encourage them to vote “YES” on the disapproval resolution.
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ATF’s unlawful rule on stabilizing braces would subject virtually all firearms with attached stabilizing braces to the registration requirements of the National Firearms Act (NFA) – the deadline to register these previously-acquired firearms was Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
Beginning in 2012, when President Biden was serving as then-President Barack Obama’s vice president, the ATF had recognized that stabilizing braces serve a legitimate function, and the inclusion of a stabilizing brace on a pistol or other firearm does not automatically subject that firearm to the provisions of the NFA.
But now, President Biden’s ATF has reversed over a decade of agency guidance and rulings that the firearms industry and law-abiding American gun owners have relied on when designing or acquiring firearms. Stabilizing braces were designed to enable gun owners to operate certain firearms with one hand with more stability. The ATF’s new rule says, essentially, that using a stabilizing brace with a pistol turns the firearm into a short-barreled rifle and must now be regulated by the NFA — and now the millions of Americans who own a pistol and a stabilizing brace, regardless of style, caliber, or type of brace, must either dispose of, alter, or register their firearms. If they don’t comply, they will become felons and face ten years in prison and large fines.
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Again, please take action today by contacting your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators, and encourage them to vote “YES” on the disapproval resolution to overturn ATF’s arbitrary rule.
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If you’re going to urge you legislators to overturn something, make it the NFA. Overturn that, and there won’t be any basis for a brace ban…or even a stock ban.
Thank you Ammoland and NRA-ILA for posting action links in the body of your article. I wish every content producer would include one or at least hyperlinks so us porcelain throne activists can join in the chorus. These action links/hyperlinks are genuine force multipliers.
Note the picture of Jim Grant in the top of this article. The “brace” is used against the shoulder as a “stock.” He has a SBR!
As much as I hate the ATF and this stupid rule, you make a point here. The whole reason this regulation ever came out is because of people doing exactly what Jim Grant is doing…posting pictures and videos of themselves using the brace as a stock. The brace was approved for persons with disabilities to use in order to fire their AR pistol as a pistol. But every fool with a YouTube channel had to post a video of them using it as a stock. I agree the rule should be overturned, but what else did people expect the ATF… Read more »
One of my issues too. There’s a dummy named Clint and his chunky wife over at Classic Firearms that has spent years doing the same thing on their cheesy videos. I called them on the phone once about 3 years ago pointing out the errors of their way only to be hung up on. Dummies each and everyone of them, who’s stupid enough to have themselves photographed misusing a tool.
AFT repeatedly stated that braces were legal and that shouldering one does not make an SBR. It was a simple, technical workaround for something which is only illegal through a technicality. Barrel length restrictions in the NFA are an arbitrary restriction with no reason or benefit – just a technicality. Do you object to people taking advantage of tax loopholes as well?
I agree that most braced pistols are pseudo-SBRs – but the correct solution is removing nonsensical barrel restrictions from the NFA. That’s common sense gun control reform I can support.
So frigging what?!?! The ATF is NOT a law making part of our Republican form of government!!! But below that, we have the undercut in facts and logic, which is that the enforcers of these bogus laws is the 100% corrupted legal system!! Would you expect for some members of an extortion racket in a Shitcago neighborhood to listen to you when you complain about how they’re taking too much money out of your till, and it’s hard for you to make a living and support your family? Of course they won’t! The root of the tree of evil that… Read more »
Or……. A hundred thousand patriots could rise up and burn atf headquarters and satellite offices to the ground…..just say’n
and if we knew where these dog killers lived (if they were required to give a home address as a condition of employment) we could end the atf
But for those golden handcuffs………
no one but an American hating commie bastard would work for atf!
Thanks for nothing nra
Don’t know but seems like this is the supreme courts job, with an permanent injunction until ruling?
This issue may eventually end before SCOTUS, but that takes time. The 2A warriors are cranking out the lawsuits to speed that along. The reality is that this act will likely not make it through the senate. We all know that Clownshow Joe will not sign it if it does. If it doesn’t pass the senate, Manchin(WV), Tester(MT) and Sinema(Az), who are up for reelection in 24, will have some ‘splainin to do back home in their pro gun states. So it amounts to a big game of political chicken, but it could result in the Dim O Crats losing… Read more »
No, no, no, NOOOO!!! The USSC/SCOTUS is incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial in handing down any decisions having to do with any laws that we may have! Didn’t you get the memo that the USSC/SCOTUS reversed Roe v. Wade last year? When it was reversed, BOTH Kagan And Alito were quoted as saying that it was over turned because an egregious mistake had been made 49 YEARS earlier in 1973!! So if the USSC/SCOTUS cannot be trusted to get a decision as important as the life or death of unborn babies correct, and then waits 49 YEARS to correct it, can… Read more »
The better approach would be to allow short barrelled rifles.
Those of us who value Liberty, warned the idiot conservative fudds about how Trump and the nra’s bumpstock ban, legally outlawed all semiautomatic guns that a bumpstock can be attached upon.
This is Biden using what the previous administration did to harm armed Americans and criminalize the 2nd Amendment.
The joys of party faction over nation, that the not so great and boomers forced upon us. Thomas Paine warned us about when one group allows the government to harm another group, how the government will use that power to harm everyone.
Please don’t contribute to strife and separation – particularly in comment complaining about fictionalization of US population. Fudd or not, boomer or not – we are all at risk by tyrannical overreach by this and previous administrations. We cannot go back and undue mistakes of the past, only learn from our mistakes and fight against repeats. Have met many tacticool individuals who had no problem with banning bumpstocks as “they’re just a toy to waste ammo” – same individuals (and similar) think braced pistols were obviously SBRs and we’ve got no standing to fight this. While I agree many braced… Read more »
I couldn’t up vote or down vote your comment because it has both good and bad observations in it. But here’s what you should be focusing on, the fact that a totally corrupted and criminal organization we call the legal system, is running the show!! Think about it, for just a moment or two. Everybody defers to the opinions of some portion of the legal system, don’t they? Why is it, that especially in light of the fact that the entire legal system was shown to be incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial last year when the USSC/SCOTUS reversed Roe v. Wade… Read more »
“…warned…about how Trump and the nra’s bumpstock ban, legally outlawed all semiautomatic guns that a bumpstock can be attached upon.”
That is completely false. The bump-stock ban final rule stated that bump-stock-type devices were now classified as machine guns. Bans on semi-automatic rifles were never part of the bump-stock ban regardless of whether they could or could not accept a bump-stock-type device. Stop making shit up.
“We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”
You like to quote the Founding Fathers, do you know who said that? People like you are doing the Lefties work for them by driving divisions between gun owners. Fuds and Boomers. Labeling anyone who isn’t exactly like you. You sound like a progressive. Wake up and stick together.
Ben Franklin said that. As to any divisions being created between various gun owners and any arguments being fomented, I don’t see it. However, we all can see the criminality of the ATFE, but hardly anyone but me can see the solution to it all! It is to expose the crimes being committed by the legal system, because then ALL of its pretense of power and authority over us just fades away! Since when do criminals get to dictate any terms to anyone else?