Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced legislation Thursday to protect Americans from the gun controls being put in place via regulatory action by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
The legislation, known as the S.H.O.R.T. Act, or the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today Act, is designed to end the ATF’s gun control push as well as the agency’s formation of a gun registry.
The bill removes short barrel rifles and short barrel shotguns from the purview of the National Firearms Act (NFA), thereby removing them from the focus of the ATF.
Moreover, the S.H.O.R.T. Act requires the ATF to destroy any and all records currently being used to create a gun registry. (On February 1, 2022, Breitbart News pointed to a Washington Free Beacon report which indicated the Biden Administration’s ATF has a database detailing well over 900 million firearm purchases by Americans.)
Sen. Marshall commented on the S.H.O.R.T. Act, saying, “The ATF’s federal gun registry is just the latest proof that the Biden Administration has no understanding of firearms and only seeks to limit American citizens’ ability to rightfully own firearms of their choosing. Gun control activists disguised as bureaucrats are corrupting the ATF, and my legislation will put a stop to their extremely misguided and incorrect interpretations of the National Firearms Act.”
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) put forward a S.H.O.R.T. Act in the House as well.
Clyde said:
As stewards of the Constitution, Members of Congress cannot allow President Biden to further trample on Americans’ Second Amendment liberties through the continued weaponization of the NFA. By deregulating these NFA firearms, this legislation prohibits the ATF from enacting an unconstitutional pistol ban through a simple rule change — safeguarding the Second Amendment and preventing Americans from being subjected to the Biden Administration’s tyrannical, gun-grabbing tactics. I’m proud to partner with Senator Marshall in leading the fight to protect Americans’ unalienable, constitutional right to keep and bear arms against President Biden’s relentless attacks on law-abiding gun owners.
The S.H.O.R.T. Act has the backing of Gun Owners of America and the National Rifle Association.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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