Mr President I want to spend a few
minutes talking about uh
Senator Marshall Marshall's and I's
legislation
to overturn President Biden's
squid brained idea with respect to
Pistol braces
the
the Second Amendment to the United
States Constitution Mr President as you
well know
gives private private citizens the right
to possess a firearm
including a pistol
and to use it lawfully
that's not a right of government
that's a right that each of us has
As Americans
Justice Scalia said it pretty well in
D.C versus Heller
the American people have considered the
handgun to be the quintessential
self-defense weapons
put up the hammer
so many people
who are opposed to the Second Amendment
they say they they're not opposed to the
Second Amendment
they say they just want to regulate guns
they don't they want to abolish guns
and many of them wouldn't know a gun
from a J crew catalog
this is a handgun
this is what we're talking about
now a second Amendment right is not
Unlimited
unlimited it's subject to reasonable
reasonable restriction by government
consistent with the Constitution and the
country's quote historical tradition of
firearm regulation those aren't my words
those are the Supreme Court's words I'm
quoting New York State Rifle and Pistol
Association the Brewing by the United
States Supreme Court for example
in many states you can't own a bazooka
that's a reasonable restriction
your right to own a gun can also be
restricted if you suffer from mental
illness
that is what we have concluded as a
society
as a reasonable restriction the issue
today is very simple it's whether
President Biden's Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco and Firearms
new rule in effect Banning
or at a minimum severely restricting
pistol braces
is a reasonable restriction under the
Constitution that's what we're
discussing today
trigger warning
this is a pistol brace
I know it's scary
this is a pistol brace
it fits on your forearm
like this
pull up that
here it is right here
to the pistol brace
is added another piece
that grips the handgun
that's what we're talking about here
epistle brace is also known that's scary
piece of equipment here
is also known as a stabilizing brace or
an arm brace
it's a simple device it's mounted to the
rear of the pistol it's designed to
Anchor the pistol to the shooter's arm
right here
it goes on the forearm
solar so the shooter can shoot the
pistol with one hand
now why is that important
because some Americans
don't have two hands
or the use of two hands or two arms
pistol braces were invented to help
handicap people
particularly handicapped veterans
who don't have use of both of their arms
you don't have to be a handicapped
person to use a pistol brace
some Studies have shown that there are
as many as 40 million pistol braces in
the United States that President Biden
wants to outlaw
not 4 million
40 million and most of them
I would say virtually all of them are
owned by law-abiding
citizens
now this pistol brace
other than stabilizing the pistol it
doesn't change the pistol in any way
the pistol brace doesn't change the
caliber of the pistol doesn't make it
more powerful
the pistol brace doesn't change the
number of rounds
that the pistol can hold
the pistol brace doesn't make the pistol
an automatic pistol
automatic weapons
are forbidden in the United States
and the pistol brace
doesn't make the pistol fire any faster
the pistol brace also does not help the
shooter load the pistol more quickly
except for stabilizing the pistol it
doesn't change the pistol in any way
it just makes it easier to hold
which is important particularly if
you're handicapped
as one of my colleagues alluded to
Pistol braces were invented in 2012.
they have been legal since
as I said millions of Americans own them
millions of Americans use them
especially handicapped Americans
the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
has never had a problem
with pistol braces
none zero zilts not I
until President Biden became Preston
now the President Biden and his ATF have
promulgated a rule it says attaching a
pistol brace to a pistol somehow
magically stops the pistol from being a
pistol and turns it into a short
barreled rifle
the ATF has defended its proposed new
rule as have as has President Biden by
pointing to two mass shootings
that were committed by individuals
who use pistols with pistol braces
now why does it matter
why is the ATF trying to say epistle is
no longer a pistol if you use a pistol
brace it's a short barrel rifle
I'll tell you why
you don't have to be a Latin scholar to
figure it out because short barrel
rifles once again
which
the ATF says pistol braces turn pistols
into
are heavily restricted
by the National Firearms Act of 1934 on
the gun control Act of 1968.
that's why they want to turn a pistol
into a short barrel rifle
by using a pistol brace
under these two Federal statutes
if the ATF can succeed
the ATF can require the owner of the
pistol with the pistol brace
to register it within 120 days with ATF
they want to start a gun registry
for all abiding Americans
hello
they want to start a gun registry
if the ATF pulls this off
this is what they can do this is what
you have to do if you own a pistol brace
and you use it with your handgun
handicapped or otherwise you got to
register it within 120 days with the ATF
you got to destroy the pistol brace
you've got to dismay or you've got to
dismantle the pistol brace or you've got
to surrender your pistol to the ATF or
you have to destroy your pistol
and violations if you don't do what the
ATF says
violations of these two Federal statutes
are punishable by five to ten years in
prison and fines of up to two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars
stupidity
should hurt more
unless you self-identify as an idiot
you can see what's going on here
the American people may be poorer under
President Biden
but they're not stupid
the ATF is trying to keep Americans from
owning pistols
and or they're trying to keep Americans
from owning pistol braces
and or they're trying to use this rule
to start an extensive National gun
registry and the ATF rule is just a back
door way to subject to subject pistols
to more smothering regulations
I swear to God and all the angels
Americans get so much government
they choke on it
neither the National Firearms Act of
1934
nor the gun control Act of 1968
mentioned pistol prices
nor does these statutes legislative
history
under recent unambiguous Decisions by
the United States Supreme Court in West
Virginia V EPA and Alabama Association
of Realtors the Department of Homeland
Security in King V Burwell
all Supreme Court president
a regulatory agency like the ATF does
not have the power under our
constitution to decide major questions
like Banning pistol braces unless
Congress
says it's okay through the text of the
statute that the agency is relying on
the statue itself
clearly and unambiguously has to give
the ATF the authority to ban pistol
braces and it does not
the ATF rules unconstitutional
it's also unconstitutional under the U.S
Supreme Court decision in New York state
V New York State Rifle and Pistol
Association V Bruin which was handed
down a couple of years ago
because Banning pistol braces is not
part of our country's quote historical
tradition of firearm regulation
the ATF rule also violates in my
judgment the Americans with Disabilities
Act of 19. 90.
and finally
the ATF rule
and President Biden's rule
are just the rule is just plain bottom
of the barrel moronic
attaching a pistol brace to a pistol
which doesn't change the pistol in any
fundamental way
except stabilizing it
does not stop the pistol from being a
pistol
it doesn't
and it sure doesn't turn it into a short
barrel rifle
pistols or pistols
rifles or rifles
duh
all the pistol braced us
is allow an American especially a
handicapped American
to safely grip a pistol and control it
in a safe manner that's all it does
like I said
stupid should hurt more
this ATF rule
is one is why so many Americans
wonder how so many governmental
officials in Washington D.C
made it through the birth canal
Mr President I yield