{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=462", "Rep. Clyde Introduces Bill to Fight Biden Administration\u2019s Attacks on Second Amendment Rights", "2022-09-29", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Andrew S. Clyde", "C001116", "clyde.house.gov", "clyde", "https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 On Thursday, Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09) introduced H.R. 9033, the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (SHORT) Act, to protect American citizens\u2019 Second Amendment rights from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives\u2019 (ATF) proposed registry for firearms with stabilizing braces. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D (R-KS) introduced the Senate companion bill.\n\n\"As stewards of the Constitution, Members of Congress cannot allow President Biden to further trample on Americans\u2019 Second Amendment liberties through the continued weaponization of the NFA,\" said Rep. Clyde. \"By deregulating these NFA firearms, this legislation prohibits the ATF from enacting an unconstitutional pistol ban through a simple rule change \u2014 safeguarding the Second Amendment and preventing Americans from being subjected to the Biden Administration\u2019s tyrannical, gun-grabbing tactics. I\u2019m proud to partner with Senator Marshall in leading the fight to protect Americans\u2019 unalienable, constitutional right to keep and bear arms against President Biden\u2019s relentless attacks on law-abiding gun owners.\"\n\n\"The ATF\u2019s federal gun registry is just the latest proof that the Biden Administration has no understanding of firearms and only seeks to limit American citizens\u2019 ability to rightfully own firearms of their choosing,\" said Senator Marshall. \"Gun control activists disguised as bureaucrats are corrupting the ATF, and my legislation will put a stop at their extremely misguided and incorrect interpretations of the National Firearms Act.\"\n\nUpon introduction, Rep. Clyde\u2019s SHORT Act received endorsements from both the Gun Owners of America (GAO) and the National Rifle Association (NRA).\n\n\"Rep. Clyde\u2019s legislation will repeal elements of the archaic National Firearms Act, which the Biden ATF is using to justify their pistol ban and \u2018amnesty registration\u2019 plan \u2014 a policy change that will affect millions of law-abiding gun owners and do nothing to curb rising crime. GOA is proud to support the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Act, which will protect gun owners and halt these anti-gun infringements,\" said GOA's Director of Federal Affairs Aidan Johnston.\n\n\"This important legislation introduced by Rep. Clyde protects the Second Amendment rights of every law-abiding American,\" said National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Affairs Executive Director Jason Ouimet. \"The ATF should not be free to arbitrarily move the goalposts on gun owners by subjecting them to punitive taxes and needless registration for simply exercising their right to keep and bear arms.\"\n\nRead the Daily Caller\u2019s exclusive on Rep. Clyde and Sen. Marshall\u2019s SHORT Act HERE.\n\nBackground\n\nThe SHORT Act will remove the unconstitutional taxation, registration, and regulation in the draconian National Firearms Act (NFA) of firearms such as Short Barreled Rifles (SBR), Short-Barreled Shotguns (SBS), and Any Other Weapons (AOW).\n\nRep. Clyde\u2019s legislation is needed to push back against the Biden Administration\u2019s attacks on millions of gun owners with his attempted ban on certain pistols through an ATF rule change.\n\nUsing the NFA, the Biden Administration is pretending people who own pistols with stabilizing braces in fact possess illegal short-barreled rifles. ATF is using this excuse to facilitate a ban, forcing gun owners to violate their rule or participate in an unconstitutional \u201cAmnesty Registration of Pistol Brace weapons,\u201d in order to keep their own firearms.\n\nThe only way to protect gun owners from the Biden Administration and ensure the ATF does not enact this rule (or any future version of it) is by deregulating NFA firearms through the elimination of unconstitutional and unnecessary restrictions, taxation, and registration placed on NFA firearms in 1934.\n\nShort-Barreled Rifle Deregulation:\n\nAn SBR is a rifle that has a barrel length less than 16 inches or an overall length less than 26 inches.\n\nSBRs, along with SBSs and AOWs, are not any more dangerous than any other firearm.\n\nThe ATF reports over 532,000 registered SBRs as of May 2021.\n\nSBRs include many rifles but the most popular SBRs are variants of the AR-15.\n\nUnder ATF Proposed Rule 2021R-08, any rifle with a stabilizing brace would de facto be designated an SBR and thus be subject to all NFA Regulations. This means the Biden Administration may be registering, taxing, and regulating as many as 40 million lawfully purchased pistols without the passage of a new law.\n\nShort-Barreled Shotgun Deregulation:\n\nAn SBS is a shotgun with a barrel length less than 18 inches or an overall length less than 26 inches.\n\nThe ATF reports over 162,000 registered SBSs as of May 2021.\n\nThe SHORT Act would remove the unconstitutional \u201csporting use\u201d requirement for shotguns, which allows ATF bureaucrats to arbitrarily regulate certain shotguns like explosives.\n\nAny Other Weapon Deregulation:\n\nAn AOW is an ambiguous catch-all term for firearms that do not fit neatly into the provided definitions. Without removing this definition, the ATF could abuse this statute to justify another ban on pistols. This is a crucial provision to end the attack on Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights.\n\nThe ATF reports over 67,000 registered AOWs as of May 2021.\n\nRecord Destruction:\n\nAdditionally, the legislation would require the ATF to destroy all records relating to the registration, transfer, or manufacture of these NFA firearms, preventing the ATF from further harassing owners or confiscating these firearms. 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