Global Courant 2023-05-08 23:01:09
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called on the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for his comments about the bureau’s pistol-bracket rule.
Massie and Jordan sent a letter Monday to ATF director Steven Dettelbach regarding his recent commission testimony when he declined to define the term “assault weapon,” warning that the agency’s pistol-bracket rule would “change from one to the next day’ will create millions of criminals.
“We are concerned that your agency’s new Stabilizing Brace Rule and its enforcement will result in millions of Americans being classified as felons overnight without any intent or action taken to violate the law The founders designed our constitutional structure to have three different affiliates,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.
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Representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called on the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to review his comments on the bureau’s gun bar rule. “clarify”.
“The branch charged with making laws should not be the same branch charged with enforcing those laws. Congress should be responsible for making laws, and we do not believe the ATF has the authority to establish the Stabilizing Brace Rule,” Massie and Jordan continued.
The GOP members of Congress wrote that regardless of “the role your agency plays in creating and enforcing its own rule, which lacks proper congressional authority, the executive branch has a duty to be transparent with Americans about their classifications of illegal conduct .”
The lawmakers noted that there are “less than 30 days left before the criminal provisions of this rule take effect” and because of that deadline, “it is important for” Dettelbach to “provide the public with a clear interpretation of the parameters of the rule .”
Lawmakers noted that there are “less than 30 days left before the criminal provisions of this rule take effect” and because of that deadline, “it is important that” ATF Director Steven Dettelbach “provide the public with a clear interpretation of the parameters of the rule.” (Parliamentary Committee)
“When your agency takes actions that turn millions of Americans into felons, you have a responsibility to provide a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand explanation of the rule in question and how your agency will enforce it,” Massie and Jordan wrote.
Republicans touched on Dettelbach’s testimony before the committee last month, when the director said his agency doesn’t “count” detachable pistol braces against his rule and that gun owners with detachable braces can keep it and “the business end of the gun.”
“Your testimony raises concern because it violates guidelines, slides and other documents and information distributed by the ATF,” the congressmen wrote.
For example, ATF.gov Final Rule 2021R-08F ‘Factoring the criteria for firearms with attached stabilizing braces’ Slide 26 specifies that an option available to all owners allows them to ‘(permanently) add the ‘stabilizing brace’ so that it cannot be reconfirmed,” they noted.
The GOP members of Congress wrote that regardless of “the role your agency plays in creating and enforcing its own rule, which lacks proper congressional authority, the executive branch has a duty to be transparent with Americans about their classifications of illegal conduct .” (Getty)
“It does not appear from those guidelines that individuals can ‘hold’ both the bracket and the ‘business side of the gun,’ as you claimed in your sworn testimony,” the lawmaker added.
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The Republicans called on Dettelbach to “clarify the detachment of the pistol bail” and, “in the interests of law-abiding citizens,” and that the ATF director “publicly correct any statements” from his testimony “that lead to a could lead to misunderstanding”. or misinterpretation of the rule.”
The ATF did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Houston Keene is a political writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @HoustonKeene
