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Two weeks after the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives sent out a press release touting its proposed rule to dramatically expand the definition of what constitutes a firearm under federal law, the proposal has officially been published in the Federal Register. That means the 90 day public comment period is now open, and gun owners (along with their anti-gun counterparts) can weigh in on the proposed changes until August 19th.
The ATF’s summary of the proposed rule gives some indication of its scope and sweep:
The Department of Justice (“Department”) proposes amending Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) regulations to provide new regulatory definitions of “firearm frame or receiver” and “frame or receiver” because the current regulations fail to capture the full meaning of those terms. The Department also proposes amending ATF’s definitions of “firearm” and “gunsmith” to clarify the m
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Joe Biden loves to compare himself to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but beyond the fact that Roosevelt actually had full control of his mental faculties when he took office in 1933, there’s another big difference between the two men; Roosevelt’s first 100 days were actually filled with legislative achievements. Joe Biden, on the other hand, has seen his legislative agenda stall out in the Senate, including his desire to impose new restrictions on Americans exercising their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Over at the
Washington Examiner, politics editor Jim Antle gives Biden low marks for his gun control efforts, though Biden’s failures could also be seen as successes for Second Amendment supporters. Still, as we enter the next 100 days of the Biden presidency, we should expect to see the administration move ahead with executive actions aimed at legal gun owners, even as his legislative agenda remains bottled up in the Senate.
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