Resolution to Stop ATF Pistol Brace Rule Passes Out of Committee

H.J. Resolution 44, the resolution to stop the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives (ATF’s) pistol brace rule, passed out of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday night.

The vote was 23-15.

Guns & Gadgets 2nd Amendment News aired Wednesday night’s pre-vote debate on H.J. Resolution 44, in which Rep. David Cicilline (D) defended the ATF pistol brace rule by claiming it makes AR-pistols “less lethal.”

The Hill reported that the Judiciary Committee originally had a markup on H.R. 44 scheduled for the week in which a 28-year-old transgender attacker shot and killed six people at a Nashville Christian school. But Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R) was concerned that Democrats would twist the push to overturn the ATF rule, making it political in a climate of gun-control hysteria.

Although the vote was delayed in late March, Jordan made clear it would still occur: “You had an agency tell Americans the rule was one thing. Ten years later, they just changed the rule without going through Congress. So, this is a Constitutional concern, but Democrats had already been talking about making everything political, so we just decided to postpone.”

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R) spoke to Breitbart News during the week of the Nashville school shooting and he also assured us that the vote on the resolution would still occur.

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