Gun Owners of America and Texas AG Files Suit Against ATF Pistol Brace Rule

Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are filing suit Thursday against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF’s) pistol brace rule.

Breitbart News reported The ATF pistol brace rule places pistol stabilisers braces under the National Firearms Act’s (NFA) auspices.

ATF officers. (Steve Helber/AP)

On January 31, 2023 the Federal Register published this rule. It gave brace owners 120-days to follow the five steps:

• Turn in the entire firearm with the attached “stabilizing brace” ATF
• Destroy the whole firearm;
• Convert the short-barreled rifle into a long-barreled rifle;
• Apply to register the weapon under the NFA; or
• Permanently remove and dispose of, or alter, the “stabilizing brace” Remove the firearm from the gun so it can’t be reattached.

Breitbart News Not noted The ATF pistol brace rules portends the registration and purchase of millions of firearms.

GOA, GOF, Texas AG Paxton have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for Southern District of Texas.

Use the link below to help GOA and our Congressional 2A Champions fight the ATF ⤵️https://t.co/hUdMB7aWvg

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) February 9, 2023

GOA’s senior vice president, Erich Pratt, commented on the suit, saying, “Millions of Americans are facing a very tight deadline to destroy or register their lawfully owned property under this draconian new rule. We hope the court will hear the pleas of gun owners across the country who will be irrevocably harmed by this rule, and GOA stands ready to fight it at every turn.”

GOF’s Sam Paredes noted, “This rule will have some of the most wide-reaching impacts nationwide in the tyrannical history of gun control. We the People will not tolerate this abuse.”

(GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images

Paxton said: “This is yet another attempt by the Biden Administration to create a workaround to the U.S. Constitution and expand gun registration in America. There is absolutely no legal basis for ATF’s haphazard decision to try to change the long-standing classification for stabilizing braces, force registration on Americans, and then throw them in jail for ten years if they don’t quickly comply. This rule is dangerous and unconstitutional, and I’m hopeful that this lawsuit will ensure that it is never allowed to take effect.”

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