Posted on 05/27/2023 3:59:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Paul A. Gosar of Arizona's essay on the Biden regime's anti-American zealotry is a direct appeal to hold the House accountable.
On June 1st, the Biden administration will launch a particularly egregious assault against law-abiding firearms owners through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)’s “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached ‘Stabilizing Braces’” rule — and Congress may not even vote on the proposed change.
By no stretch of the imagination is this a partisan issue, despite some vulnerable members’ concern that this is a controversial topic — far from it! On the contrary, supporting this rule is the radical position which will require an answer from enraged voters. Since pistols and people with disabilities exist in every congressional district, all constituencies are affected by this rule.
Congressional Research Service estimates up to 40 million pistol braces are in circulation among Americans. When Americans legally bought their ATF-approved pistol braces several years ago and attached it to their firearm — making it more concealable (in theory) but easier for the disabled to use — how could they know that on June 1st, 2023 they would be made de facto felons for their legal purchase?
No member of Congress should want to see any of their constituents face prison time and enormous fines for buying a device approved by the ATF at the time of purchase, sanctioned by the Second Amendment, and upheld by numerous Supreme Court decisions including last year’s NYSRPA v. Bruen which affirmed any law related to firearms must conform to American history, text, and tradition. This rule is an unprecedented infringement to the largest scale in American history.
Just yesterday, a three-judge panel in the fifth circuit ruled a preliminary injunction which protected the particular plaintiffs from Biden’s rule.
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It would be nice if congress could gain some control of the unelected, administrative state.
Deep State controls Congress.
Until we secure our elections, that will not change.
In the aggregate the Constitution says that everything which congress has not made illegal .....is legal.
It’s a sad day when America’s lawmaking body has to pass a law to make something legal which the administrative branch has made illegal.
“...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Note, there is no description or limitation of what arms are considered. No bullets, no shoulder braces, no sights, no barrel coolers, no anything other than a means of protection.
how did “bump stocks” and “pistol braces” get to limit this right? Answer, they don’t
Congress created this on purpose because they are cowards.
Allowing the regulatory agencies to create laws from thin air allows congressmen to praise or condemn such rules while never having to take an actual vote on record.
Ex post facto is itself unconstitutional. This would be naked thumbing of the nose.
Well, yes, OK - but there are too many articles, opinion pieces, and blog posts openly mocking BATFE and its minions as too stupid to realize that “pistol braces” are such a great way to evade GCA1934 to take them all back now.
Deep State has controlled Congress for more than a century.
The problem isn’t corrupted elections - the problem is a universal franchise that allows idiots to vote.
Re: 5 - the problem is that you also have Presidents that have been vocal about curtailing gun rights. Biden for sure, and so has Trump.
Just add this to the massive list of rules no legislature voted for but can be used to put people in jail and to steal their wealth.
When they come to take it , shoot them. Eventually they will stop coming.
*apologies to Solzhenitsyn who said it more eloquently*
“It would be nice if congress could gain some control of the unelected, administrative state.”
Here is a suggestion:
1). All laws passed by Congress sunset after 3 years, unless renewed by majority vote.
2). All regulations by government bureaucrats sunset after 3 years unless renewed by the agency and a majority vote in Congress.
3). All executive orders sunset one day after the President who issued them departs office. The new administration has the choice of renewing them or letting them end.
4). Any executive orders can be terminated by a 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress.
Of course Congress today can pass a law voiding any regulation of a federal agency. Even better, Congress can start being very specific in the laws its passes and not give federal agencies the power to interpret the law or expand upon it.
The number of laws and executive orders on the books (many conflicting and confusing) are so numerous no individual can know them all much less understand them all. As a result citizens are sometimes hauled into court for crimes they did not know existed. Even worse federal bureaucrats use arcane laws to harass political opponents or companies the bureaucrats dislike. Clean up the mess by letting them sunset and thereby force Congress to relook at each law, keep those that are appropriate to this day and time, and dump the rest.
> de facto felons
Ex post facto
If we returned to common-sense law enforcement and judiciary, we would not need gun laws. But, no, we gotta placate the whores and pimps in katholic charities, etc.
No, it isn’t a violation of Ex Post Facto. Ex Post Facto would be if they prosecuted you for an act you committed on 31 May that wasn’t criminalized until 1 June.
The BATFE is and always has been granted wide latitude as to how it enforces the federal code. The NFA in particular was signed into law in 1934, and even if their interpretation of the law changes in 2023, it’s still a 1934 law. NO Ex Post Facto.
That wide latitude is ex post facto if it has the effect of changing the law.
Congress cannot make a law where someone else makes the rules by which a law is enforced. That is an ex post facto change of the law. Laws are static. They can mean one and one thing only.
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