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Thu Feb 2, 2023, 01:18 PM Feb 2023

Conservative Wisconsin law firm sues Biden administration over rule on gun stabilizing braces

https://www.yahoo.com/news/conservative-wisconsin-law-firm-sues-173129085.html


MADISON - A conservative law firm based in Wisconsin is suing the Biden administration over a rule that puts new regulations on stabilizing braces, arguing the measure violates the Second Amendment and usurps legislative authority.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in 2021 the U.S. Justice Department would tighten regulations on stabilizing braces for firearms like the one used in a shooting in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store that left 10 people dead. The rule, implemented this month, aimed to make clear a device marketed as a stabilizing brace, which DOJ argues effectively allows a pistol to operate as a short-barreled rifle, is subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act, according to Garland.

Attorneys with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, representing three Marine veterans in the lawsuit, argue the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives bureau of the DOJ created an illegal rule.

"The new rule unlawfully usurps Congressional authority by significantly expanding the definition of 'rifle' under federal law and, with it, imposes potential criminal liability on millions of Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights," the complaint says. Attorneys argue "such a dramatic seizure of legislative authority" violates the Second Amendment and illegally encroaches on legislative powers.
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The 2nd amendment is misinterpreted to say you can have an arm sanatanadharma Feb 2023 #1

sanatanadharma

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1. The 2nd amendment is misinterpreted to say you can have an arm
Thu Feb 2, 2023, 02:55 PM
Feb 2023

There is no constitutional guarantee to a steady aim, nor a comfortable experience with your single shot, black-powder long arm.

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