SUMMARY:
The Department of Justice (“Department” or “DOJ”) is amending the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) to clarify when a rifle is designed, made, and intended to be fired from the shoulder. Specifically, under the Gun Control Act of 1968 (“GCA”) and the National Firearms Act of 1934 (“NFA”) the definition of “rifle” shall include a weapon that is equipped with an accessory, component, or other rearward attachment (e.g., a “stabilizing brace”) that provides surface area that allows the weapon to be fired from the shoulder, provided other factors, as described in this preamble and in the amended regulations, indicate that the weapon is designed, made, and intended to be fired from the shoulder.
Effective date: This rule is effective January 31, 2023.
Compliance Date: Any weapons with “stabilizing braces” or similar attachments that constitute rifles under the NFA must be registered no later than May 31, 2023.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) have introduced their new draconian "assault weapon" ban (AWB), and we need everone to take action to stop it.
- Bans the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 "military-style assault weapons" by name. Owners may keep existing weapons.
- Bans any "assault weapon" with the capacity to utilize a magazine that is not a fixed ammunition magazine and has one or more "military characteristics" including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock. Owners may keep existing weapons.
- Bans magazines and other ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Owners may keep existing magazines.
- Requires a background check on any future sale, trade or gifting of an "assault weapon" covered by the bill.
- Requires that grandfathered assault weapons are stored using a secure gun storage or safety device like a trigger lock.
- Prohibits the transfer of magazines holding more than 10 rounds.
- Bans bump stocks and other devices that impact the rate of fire for semi-automatic rifles.
- The bill includes a grandfather clause that exempts all weapons lawfully possessed at the date of enactment.
There is still time to make an impact, so reach out to your Representatives TODAY!
Representative Diana DeGette of Denver Colorado has introduced her new bill, H.R.625 - To regulate large-capacity ammunition feeding devices.
As you can tell from the title, this bill will aim to regulate standard capacity magazines. while the extent of this regulation and ban has yet to be seen, based on her track record and the 94 co-sponsors on the bill, it cannot be good.
Any magazine ban is a direct attack on one of the most common components of the most common firearms in the country, and thus a direct assault on your rights and your ability to exercise them.
This bill is an unacceptable Infringement on your fundamental human rights and MUST be opposed with all the vigor we can muster.
There is still time to make an impact, so reach out to your Representatives TODAY!
A new bill has been introduced that looks to destroy the barriers that prevent the ATF from explicitly maintaining a searchable digital database.
The Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act has been introduced by the anti-gun duo of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), and it aims to allow the ATF to maintain a serchable database, under the guise of it being used to track fireams used in crime, but we know different.
Attempted firearm confiscation is not possible without a federal registry, and this is the first step to making that happen.
There is still time to make an impact, so reach out to your Representatives TODAY!