The House Judiciary Committee opted to postpone the upcoming markup of a resolution to nullify the ATF’s new rule on pistol stabilizing braces.
The meeting, previously scheduled for next Tuesday, is delayed over concern that Democrats will use the Nashville tragedy as a political football.
Yesterday a 28-year-old transgender entered a private Christian school in Nashville, TN, and killed three nine-year-old students and three staff members.
Nashville police reported that the assailant had “assault-style weapons and a handgun.” Her motive for the attack is not yet clear.
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House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R – Ohio) told The Hill this week, “Democrats were going to turn this tragic event into a political thing.”
Further, Jordan summed up the importance of the markup saying, “This issue we wanted to mark up tomorrow that we’ll mark up here in a couple of weeks as is all about the Constitution.”
In addition, Jordan explained how the new rule is a threat to the political process stating, “You had an agency tell Americans the rule was one thing. Ten years later, they just changed the rule without going through Congress.”
“So, this is a Constitutional concern, but Democrats had already been talking about making everything political, so we just decided to postpone,” he added.
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The ATF Ruling
ATF Director Steven Dettelbach justified the ATF ruling stating, “certain so-called stabilizing braces are designed to just attach to pistols, essentially converting them into short-barreled rifles to be fired from the shoulder. Therefore, they must be treated in the same way under the statute.”
Under the new definition, many previously legal AR-pistols would have to be destroyed, turned in to the government, or registered under the NFA.
If owners choose to retain their pistols without registering them, they will become felons overnight starting on May 31st.
However, the new rule is a complete reversal of established ATF precedent that law-abiding citizens and the firearms industry have been following for well over a decade.
Luckily, policymakers like Jordan have identified this shift and its threat to the legislative process. Stay tuned for updates.
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Just like the Hearing Protection Act. Obvious MK Ultra psyop is obvious.
I remember a few years ago when the ASA was getting some ground, there just happened to be a shooting where the perpetrator used a suppressed handgun in an office building.
Some chance, huh?
Pistol braces had nothing to do with the Nashville shooting. Mental illness did.