{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-zinke-votes-protect-second-amendment-rights", "Congressman Zinke Votes to Protect Second Amendment Rights", "2023-06-13", "2023", "2023-06", "Republican", "House", "MT", "Ryan K. Zinke", "Z000018", "zinke.house.gov", "zinke", "https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Western Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke voted for H.J. Res. 44, the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that would nullify the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives\u2019 (ATF) pistol brace rule the Biden Administration finalized in January 2023.\n\n\u201cBiden and radical democrats in the House are taking every action possible to turn law-abiding Montana gun owners into felons \u2013 and I won\u2019t stand for it. The latest attempt from the Biden Administration to erode our Second Amendment right falls right in line with the rest of their anti-Montana agenda,\u201d Zinke said. \u201cI was sent to D.C. to protect our Montana values and way of life against government overreach and unconstitutional regulations. I proudly cosponsored the legislation to overturn the Biden pistol brace ban and I hope my colleagues in the Senate, including Montana\u2019s two U.S. Senators, side with Montana.\u201d\n\nThe ATF\u2019s new rule is a pocket ban on the use of a stabilizing brace with a pistol, arguing that the device turns the legal pistol into a short-barreled rifle. The 40 million law-abiding Americans with a brace must now register on a government list or dispose of their firearms. If they don\u2019t comply with this unconstitutional rule, they will become felons, face 10 years in prison and large fines.\n\nBackground:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:15:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-zinke-votes-protect-second-amendment-rights"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7168920710682869, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}