Andrew Clyde: Passing Res. to Block ATF Stabilizer Brace Rule Sends Strong Message to Court

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) sat down with Breitbart News to discuss H.J. Res. 44 and stressed House and Senate passage of the resolution sends a “strong message to the courts” as to the intent of Congress regarding short barrel rifles.

Breitbart News reported the House passed the H.J. Res. 44 on June 13, 2023.

This means the resolution now goes to the Senate where there is one month to bring it up for a vote that cannot be filibustered.

Clyde told Breitbart News, “H.J. Res. 44 is privileged and has to come to the Senate floor for a vote if a Senator wants to call it up.”

He went on to discuss Senators whom he believes have plans to call it up and added, “So it will come to the Senate floor and I believe you’ll see two or three, maybe four, Democrats vote for it.”

Clyde said he noticed a lot of voices on social media suggesting the efforts to pass the resolution are futile because Biden will likely veto it. (Breitbart News noted that Biden’s pledged to veto the resolution one day before it passed the House.)

But Clyde stressed veto or no veto, passage of the resolution by the House and Senate is “a massive win” because “of the ability it presents to message the court system. Passage of the resolution tells the court system what our intent is.”

He added, “The court looks at Congress and says, ‘Okay, how did you intent legislation regarding short barrel rifles, pistols, etc., to be?’ And when they see passage of this resolution they will know, this is what Congress’s intent was when we created the definition of a short barrel rifle; it does not include a pistol, whether it has a brace on it or not.”

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. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. 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.