[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 24, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H258]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     DEFENDING THE SECOND AMENDMENT

  (Mr. McCORMICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in defense of the Second 
Amendment, which is, once again, under attack by the unelected Federal 
bureaucrats in Washington.
  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is seeking 
to reclassify firearms with pistol braces as short-barreled rifles, a 
classification which threatens to make criminals of tens of millions of 
law-abiding Americans who have already purchased these.
  The extra red tape, fees, and registrations that the ATF wants to 
require is an unnecessary punishment for shooting enthusiasts who 
purchased perfectly legal accessories to their legal firearms.
  This follows a long pattern we have seen for decades in Washington's 
antigun, unconstitutional policies, which could never make it through 
Congress as a law that is imposed upon the public through the rule-
making process.
  Americans are tired of unelected Federal agencies spending their tax 
dollars attacking and curtailing the constitutional rights of law-
abiding citizens.

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