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Senator/Representative,

I am writing to urge your support in stopping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) from making millions of Americans felons overnight with an arbitrary rules change.

With no legislative authority to classify pistols with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles (SBR), the BATFE is clearly operating in a manner outside the US Constitution and numerous precedents from the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS.) Keep in mind there are an estimated 40 million of these devices in the United States. This also significantly expands what requires registration under the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934.

While this is an accessory to a firearm, the words “in common use at the time for lawful purposes” are definitely applicable. They were in the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v Bruen (2022) decision which cited DC v Heller (2008) and US v Miller (1939) concerning rights affirmed by the 2nd Amendment.

Another recent SCOTUS decision which is highly applicable to agencies operating outside of that which is lawful is West Virginia v EPA (2022.) In his concurrence, Justice Gorsuch wrote:

“When Congress seems slow to solve problems, it may be
only natural that those in the Executive Branch might seek
to take matters into their own hands. But the Constitution
does not authorize agencies to use pen-and-phone regula-
tions as substitutes for laws passed by the people’s repre-
sentatives. In our Republic, “t is the peculiar province of
the legislature to prescribe general rules for the govern-
ment of society.” Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch 87, 136 (1810).”

It is particularly sinister that the BATFE would determine these items require registration for the millions of these weapons, after having no problems with them for a decade. Additionally, BATFE gave millions of Americans an option to “Permanently remove and dispose of, or alter, the “stabilizing brace” from the firearm such that it cannot be reattached.” How far is this from requiring registration of all firearms which can have a pistol brace?

We are witnessing an onslaught of infringement on essential rights including that of self-defense. The bureaucracy driven by the NFA of 1934 has created an entity that makes its own rules, changes its own rules, reinterprets its own rules, and answers to no one. The answer to bad government is not more government.

Thank you,

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