{"id":573592,"date":"2021-06-25T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=573592"},"modified":"2021-06-25T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:37:15","slug":"48-senators-demand-biden-reverse-proposed-atf-rule-largest-confiscation-scheme-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/48-senators-demand-biden-reverse-proposed-atf-rule-largest-confiscation-scheme-in-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"48 Senators Demand Biden Reverse Proposed ATF Rule: Largest \u2018Confiscation Scheme In American History\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F48-senators-demand-biden-reverse-proposed-atf-rule-largest-confiscation-scheme-in-american-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=573592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Bidenn-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Dozens of Republican Senators demanded that Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration reverse course on a proposed ATF rule that would \u201cturn millions of law-abiding Americans into criminals overnight\u201d and would represent \u201cthe largest executive branch-imposed gun registration and confiscation scheme in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators warned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letter-to-AG-and-Acting-Dirctor-of-ATF-6.24.2021.pdf\">letter<\/a> that the move by the Biden administration would force millions of Americans to have to either pay a $200 tax on pistols that feature a stabilizing brace, spend even more money converting the pistol into a rifle, destroy the weapon, or turn the weapon over to the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Reload <a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/exclusive-republican-senators-demand-withdraw-of-pistol-brace-ban-that-would-affect-millions\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16.505164319249\">\n<p><em>They warned the reclassification would mean owners who don\u2019t register their guns would face felony charges and up to 10 years in federal prison per gun. \u2026 The letter comes as\u00a0negative public comments have flooded in on the proposal. Americans have already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/06\/10\/2021-12176\/factoring-criteria-for-firearms-with-attached-stabilizing-braces\">submitted over 100,000 comments<\/a>\u00a0and dozens of the comments reviewed by\u00a0The Reload\u00a0showed universal opposition to the proposal. If the proposal receives enough opposition, it could be pulled like other rule-change proposals in the past, including a\u00a0similar pistol brace ban\u00a0proposed last year and an\u00a0Obama Administration attempt\u00a0to ban a type of ammunition commonly used in AR-15s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, President Joe Biden\u00a0doubled down on the brace ban\u00a0Wednesday in his newly announced strategy to combat the rise in violent crime. The ATF cited just two crimes committed with braced pistols\u2014mass shootings in Ohio and Colorado\u2014in the proposal but did not explain whether the brace contributed to those crimes. The Republican senators said the proposal would do nothing to reduce the recent murder spike.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTo one unfamiliar with stabilizing braces, ATF\u2019s proposed rule and the accompanying regulatory analysis suggest that these braces are dangerous alterations to firearms designed to help criminals evade federal law,\u201d the senators said. \u201cNothing could be further from the truth, and ATF knows that. After all, it has repeatedly blessed their design, manufacture, sale, and use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impetus for the manufacture of stabilizing braces was to assist disabled combat veterans in shooting large pistol platforms that were otherwise too cumbersome for a disabled shooter to use,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cIn 2012, ATF announced that attaching a stabilizing brace to an AR-type pistol did not convert that pistol-regulated by the [Gun Control Act]-into a short-barreled rifle (SBR) regulated by the [National Firearm Act] and subject to the NFA\u2019s taxation and registration regime. In 2015, ATF announced that attaching a stabilizing brace to a pistol that could allow the pistol to be fired from the shoulder converted that pistol into an SBR. Just two years later, however, in a letter to a manufacturer, ATF appeared to rescind its indefensible 2015 ruling. ATF thereafter issued private letter rulings blessing a wide array of stabilizing brace configurations from a host of manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only two Republican Senators did not sign the letter, Rob Portman (OH), who is not seeking reelection, and Susan Collins (ME).<\/p>\n<p>The senators noted that the move by the Biden administration comes as \u201ca crime wave is sweeping America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese aren\u2019t broken-windows crimes; they are violent crimes like murder, assault, and robbery,\u201d the letter said. \u201cBut rather than cracking down on the criminals who are turning America\u2019s cities into warzones, ATF and the Department of Justice have decided to go after law-abiding gun owners who are minding their own business and using equipment that ATF seemingly blessed in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is plain wrong,\u201d the letter concluded. \u201cThe proposed rule is worse than merely abdicating your responsibility to protect Americans from criminals; you\u2019re threatening to turn law-abiding Americans into criminals by imposing the largest executive branch-initiated gun registration and confiscation program in American history. We urge you to turn back. Correct this mistake and withdraw the proposed rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Republican Senators demanded that Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration reverse course on a proposed ATF rule that would \u201cturn millions of law-abiding Americans into criminals overnight\u201d and would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281310,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Bidenn-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"48 Senators Demand Biden Reverse Proposed ATF Rule: Largest \u2018Confiscation Scheme In American History\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Bidenn-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"48 Senators Demand Biden Reverse Proposed ATF Rule: Largest \u2018Confiscation Scheme In American History\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}