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Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:18 pm
by Bitter Clinger
How shocking that a bunch of unelected government bureaucrats would overstep their charter and invent a (fake) crime in order to turn law abiding citizens into criminals. Can you say "control"? This ATF action is absolutely beyond the pale. This "law" will fail in so many different ways and the only result will be the rest of the world laughing at us. The swamp knows no limits.

Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:12 pm
by bblhd672
The new rules are due to be posted to the Federal Register tomorrow 1/31/2023. The 120 day entrapment...oops...120 amnesty period starts tomorrow.


Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:32 pm
by Bitter Clinger
bblhd672 wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:12 pm The new rules are due to be posted to the Federal Register tomorrow 1/31/2023. The 120 day entrapment...oops...120 amnesty period starts tomorrow.

I don't think that this ATF overstep will survive the lawsuits.

Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:30 am
by bblhd672
Rep. Andrew Clyde to Use Congressional Review Act to Override ATF Stabilizer Brace Rule
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment ... race-rule/
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) announced Monday he will use the Congressional Review Act against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF’s) pistol/stabilizer brace rule.

Breitbart News reported that the ATF’s pistol/stabilizer brace rule was finalized January 13, 2023, and that the agency is giving owners of pistols with said braces 120 days to register the firearms, once the rule appears in the Federal Registry.

On January 14, 2023, Breitbart News noted that the Congressional Review Act offered an avenue by which Congress could block the ATF’s rule.

Rep. Clyde and his colleagues are ready to use the Congressional Review Act and other means to stop the rule from turning millions of law-abiding gun owners into criminals.

Clyde spoke on the House floor Monday, saying:

Next week, I will reintroduce the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today Act, or the SHORT Act, to repeal elements of the National Firearms Act, thereby prohibiting the ATF from registering and banning pistols with stabilizing braces. Additionally, as soon as the ATF’s unlawful rule is published to the Federal Register, I will introduce a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, to override the Biden administration’s unlawful overreach.

Gun owners, hear me loud and clear:

We’re fighting for you and your Second Amendment freedoms—and we will never give up. pic.twitter.com/0LfUslyEwM

— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) January 30, 2023

The Brookings Institute summarizes the Congressional Review Act:

Passed as part of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996, the Congressional Review Act creates a streamlined procedure by which Congress can disapprove and thereby nullify regulations promulgated by various federal government agencies. The Congressional Review Act quires that all rules be reported to Congress. Upon receiving that report, Congress then has 60 legislative working days (which is generally a much longer period than 60 calendar days) to introduce a special joint resolution of disapproval of the rule.

That resolution can be discharged from committee and can avoid the Senate’s filibuster, thereby empowering Congress to contend with the administrative state’s vast rulemaking powers on something closer to an equal footing.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office explains the Congressional Review Act thusly: “The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to review ‘major’ rules issued by federal agencies before the rules take effect. Congress may also disapprove new rules, resulting in the rules having no force or effect.”

Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:39 am
by Bitter Clinger
bblhd672 wrote: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:30 am Rep. Andrew Clyde to Use Congressional Review Act to Override ATF Stabilizer Brace Rule
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment ... race-rule/
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) announced Monday he will use the Congressional Review Act against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF’s) pistol/stabilizer brace rule.

Breitbart News reported that the ATF’s pistol/stabilizer brace rule was finalized January 13, 2023, and that the agency is giving owners of pistols with said braces 120 days to register the firearms, once the rule appears in the Federal Registry.

On January 14, 2023, Breitbart News noted that the Congressional Review Act offered an avenue by which Congress could block the ATF’s rule.

Rep. Clyde and his colleagues are ready to use the Congressional Review Act and other means to stop the rule from turning millions of law-abiding gun owners into criminals.

Clyde spoke on the House floor Monday, saying:

Next week, I will reintroduce the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today Act, or the SHORT Act, to repeal elements of the National Firearms Act, thereby prohibiting the ATF from registering and banning pistols with stabilizing braces. Additionally, as soon as the ATF’s unlawful rule is published to the Federal Register, I will introduce a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, to override the Biden administration’s unlawful overreach.

Gun owners, hear me loud and clear:

We’re fighting for you and your Second Amendment freedoms—and we will never give up. pic.twitter.com/0LfUslyEwM

— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) January 30, 2023

The Brookings Institute summarizes the Congressional Review Act:

Passed as part of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996, the Congressional Review Act creates a streamlined procedure by which Congress can disapprove and thereby nullify regulations promulgated by various federal government agencies. The Congressional Review Act quires that all rules be reported to Congress. Upon receiving that report, Congress then has 60 legislative working days (which is generally a much longer period than 60 calendar days) to introduce a special joint resolution of disapproval of the rule.

That resolution can be discharged from committee and can avoid the Senate’s filibuster, thereby empowering Congress to contend with the administrative state’s vast rulemaking powers on something closer to an equal footing.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office explains the Congressional Review Act thusly: “The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to review ‘major’ rules issued by federal agencies before the rules take effect. Congress may also disapprove new rules, resulting in the rules having no force or effect.”
And if all else fails, just stock up on rubber feet and tennis balls. :violence-ak47:

Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:47 am
by bblhd672
“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Thomas Jefferson, “Commonplace Book,” quoting 18th-century criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1774-1776

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. … The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” — Patrick Henry, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

There is only one reason people in power wish to disarm citizens. Control and power.

Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:18 am
by Bitter Clinger
FPC Files New Lawsuit Challenging ATF Pistol Brace Rulemaking

https://www.ammoland.com/2023/02/fpc-fi ... ulemaking/

Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:59 pm
by KBCraig
And Matt Larosiere and Zach Zermay have filed one challenging the entire NFA based on Bruen.

Note the case number: "223". lol


Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 4:20 pm
by bblhd672
KBCraig wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:59 pm And Matt Larosiere and Zach Zermay have filed one challenging the entire NFA based on Bruen.
This is the way

Re: Latest on ATF Pistol Brace Cluster

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:54 pm
by srothstein
KBCraig wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:59 pm And Matt Larosiere and Zach Zermay have filed one challenging the entire NFA based on Bruen.

Note the case number: "223". lol
I note the first request is just to get SBAs out of the NFA. The only way I see them winning the whole NFA argument is if they base it on taxing a fundamental right and use poll taxes as their basic argument. That is going to be hard to argue against but the government will try.