‘Unacceptable Attack’: Biden Admin Slammed After DOJ Announces New Pistol Brace Regulation

Leif Le MahieuJanuary 14, 2023

Gun rights groups criticize the Biden administration After the Department of Justice Announcement of a new gun control A proposal to regulate pistols with stabilizing braces.

Friday’s announcement of the rule was made following a directive by President Joe Biden These braces are to be regulated, which he It could convert pistols into short-barreled firearms. A federal license is required to possess a weapon classed as a “short-barreled rifle” under the National Firearms Act.

“Keeping our communities safe from gun violence is among the Department’s highest priorities,” Attorney General Merrick Garland “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.”

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) followed Biden’s directive and developed the rule, which was submitted to the Federal Register on Friday. Owners of stabilizing braces will have to register their rifles as short-barreled rifles under the new rule.

“This rule enhances public safety and prevents people from circumventing the laws Congress passed almost a century ago. In the days of Al Capone, Congress said back then that short-barreled rifles and sawed-off shotguns should be subjected to greater legal requirements than most other guns,” Steve Dettelbach, Director of ATF, said.

According to the DOJ, gun owners can return their braces and surrender. “covered short-barreled rifles to ATF.”

Second Amendment groups and Republicans both criticized the rule.

Erich Pratt, Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America that his group’s legal arm would be filing a suit to challenge the rule, noting that pistol braces are used by disabled individuals to safely use handguns.

“President Biden just initiated the largest federal gun registration scheme in our nation’s history without even the passage of a new law. GOA is actively working with Congress to pass a resolution blocking this rule under the Congressional Review Act,” Aidan Johnson is the director of federal affairs at GOA.

The Congressional Review Act permits Congress to Nullify regulations Within 60 days of their proposal.

The National Rifle Association The Biden administration chose to “shred the Constitution” The new regulation.

Senator Mike Crapo (R.I.D.) called the rule an “anabolic” “ unacceptable attack” The Second Amendment, law-abiding Americans. “The ATF’s announced rule on pistol braces today is nothing short of a massive executive branch-imposed gun registration and confiscation scheme,” He Follow us on Twitter.