Spurred by the Biden Administration’s redefining braced pistols as short-barreled rifles (SBRs), placing them under the auspices of the National Firearms Act (NFA), a U.S. Congressman and a U.S. Senator have filed companion bills in Congress to remove short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and so-called “any other weapons (AOWs)” from NFA regulation.
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Georgia, introduced the House version of the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles, or SHORT, Act, while U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, introduced the Senate companion act.
The measure states: “In the case of any registration or licensing requirement under State or local law with respect to a short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or any other weapon (as defined in section 5845(e)) which is determined by reference to the National Firearms Act, any person who acquires or possesses such rifle, shotgun, or other weapon in accordance with chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, shall be treated as meeting any such registration or licensing requirement with respect to such rifle, shotgun, or other weapon.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration dangerously weaponized the draconian National Firearms Act to further infringe on Americans’ Second Amendment liberties,” Clyde said in a news release announcing the measure. “Yet the American people overwhelmingly rejected the Left’s unconstitutional tactics and backdoor gun control in November. It’s now time for Congress to use this mandate to protect Americans’ unalienable, constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Deregulating SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs is the most effective way to ensure American gun owners are not subjected to unlawful and unnecessary restrictions, taxation, and registration of firearms or pistol braces. I’m proud to partner with Senator Marshall in the fight to defeat this Biden-era rule and safeguard Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms.”
Sen. Marshall said he hopes the measure starts “rolling back” some of the damage the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) did during Biden’s time in office.
“‘Shall not be infringed’ is crystal clear—and the Biden-era abuses of the constitutionally protected rights of gun owners across the country need to be undone,” Sen. Marshall said. “The SHORT Act takes a step toward rolling back nonsensical regulations that the National Firearms Act has placed upon gun owners. I challenge my colleagues in both chambers to pass this legislation and join me in fully restoring and protecting our God-given Second Amendment rights.”
As expected, a number of gun-rights groups, including Gun Owners of America (GOA), have thrown their full support behind the measure.
“The Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (SHORT) Act will repeal elements of the archaic National Firearms Act, which the Biden ATF abused to justify their unconstitutional pistol brace ban—a policy change that affects millions of law-abiding gun owners and does nothing to curb rising crime,” said Aidan Johnston, GOA director of federal affairs. “GOA is proud to support the SHORT Act, which will repeal archaic short barrel restrictions from the National Firearms Act of 1934 and prevent them from ever being weaponized against the American people ever again.”
In total, 45 House members from districts around the country co-sponsored the act, showing the widespread disdain for the Biden Administration’s actions in reinterpreting the NFA.
If states like CO, CA and CT can thumb their noses at the DEA and federal drug laws why can’t states like TX, MT and AK thumb their noses at the ATF and federal gun laws?
If the left can get away with saying eff’em why can’t the right?
The “right” want to appear to be in the right even if their actions don’t line up with their rhetorIc. I’ve noticed that fact living in ILLannoy😕
I remember when Effingham country became a “sanctuary city” for gun rights. Chicago politicians had a fit, said it was “illegal and against the law” . Evidently “sanctuary city” can only be used in reference to illegals aliens, not citizens.
Victoria, you know the politicians in Chicago are corrupt as hell…
Chicago? The whole damn state! 40 yrs of super-majority is no longer democracy!
Walker, we have about maybe 4 or 5 true conservatives in this hellhole… It’s the uni-party state… Take Adam Kinzinger for example…👊👊
Gotta have an acronym! Normalizing this change is a start.
IF YOU THINK THIS WILL PASS….APRILS FOOLS!!
Of course it won’t, but you have to start somewhere. They need to tie this to war funding so the anti-gun left will ironically be all for it.
this isn’t a start. this literally happens every single year in the house and never goes anywhere. this is a total con job and pure propoganda for members of congress to say they are “doing something.”
That’s not a terrible point, actually.
50/50 you could horse-trade a Trump impeachment for the removal of all gun laws and regs plus the dissolution of the ATF and FBI.
Better shot than any pro-gun bill has in the Senate with the current GOPers. But then, the grassroots thinks that a pro-gun bill requires 60 votes, so they’re unlikely to hold the GOP’s feet to the fire.
Remove Silencers, SBR’s & SBS’s from NFA, then reopen the registry for MG’s. That is a great first step to dismantling all “Gun-Control.”
We need to stop usung the Misnomer “Silencer” when in fact, a gunshot with a suppressor if far from silent. They DO reduce the sound level to a safe hearing level, particularly those of us Veterans (And anyone truthfully) to prevent hearing loss or further loss.
So lets call them what they are. Suppressors. Just like driving a car without a muffler. Very few people would accept that.
It all circles back to the Discrimination inherent with Gun Control.
Actually, the NFA circles back to gang wars during prohibition and prolific bank robberies occurring due to the Depression. There’s nothing quite like the room/street/car clearing power of a ten gauge sawed off shotgun.
My hands, wrists, and shoulders hurt just reading that.
Not at all interested in a SBR. Now, a nice, short shotgun very much interests me.
We need a bill number and a list of cosponsors.
this isn’t actually going to happen. it is a pr stunt for these members of the house.
As per usual when it comes to proposed legislation to reduce infringements to firearm ownership/possession: this legislation is almost certainly D.O.A. in the U.S. House of Representatives and is absolutely D.O.A. in the U.S. Senate.
I honestly don’t know why anyone bothers to propose such legislation until Republicans attain a larger majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and acquire at least 65 seats in the U.S. Senate.
they do it every year so they can say to their local constituencies that they care and are trying to do something. the bill authors know it is doa and a total waste of time. it literally is a waste of everyone’s time; even ours! just like that fake doj report that bondi said she’d deliver to trump to remove all the unconstitutional restrictions on gun rights. tick tock tick tock still waiting lol.
Having watched a lot of state and federal legislation in my time bills are like dirty underwear. You keep throwing them against the wall (introducing them) until they stick (pass)!
The NFA needs to go away completely and permanently.
Guns of any kind, shape or fashion are not the only things owned by people all over the country that can be used as a weapon. Cars, trucks, golf carts, kitchen tools, gardening tools to name a few are owned by folk; but, the left ignores those just like they ignore the drugs flowing into our country transported by illegal aliens. The left seem to hate POTG and gun manufactures; but, they embrace and pity the illegal gang members and drug dealers entering illegally.
They welcome the illegals while doing all they can to persecute good citizens for exercising their God given personal and constitutional right(not to be confused with privilege).
Why not just repeal the NFA in totality instead of just a part of it covering SBRs, SB shotguns, and other weapons. It just does not make since to go through the effort of passing bills in the house and senate. Unless, congress still wants to prohibit automatic firearms.
lol; this bill gets introduced every year in the house and goes nowhere. it’s just another stunt.
All well and good but I am not impressed with the tepid support bills like this and the SHUSH or Hearing Protection Act have received from Republicans. When they are running they are long on talk and once they are elected they are short on action.
Because an SBR, a SBS, or a silencer are NFA items the Republicans could remove them from the NFA without a single Democrat vote. They can do this as part of reconciliation since all NFA items have the special tax that is required to be collected. Republicans are just too cowardly to do it and will end up losing the House next year because of it.
Good points. Both of them. Hadn’t thought about reconciliation but I had thought about the nature of the Republican Party.
A bit misleading description. These arms are not eliminated from the NFA, and one must still pay the piper to register with the Fed. All it does is assure that federal law “occupies the field” and precludes any state or local laws on the same subjects. The key language is “In the case of any registration or licensing requirement under State or local law with respect to…” these particular weapons. It doesn’t affect the laws regulating machine guns or suppressors either.
April Fools
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Until Senate Republicans are willing to change Senate rules to pass “red meat” bills like this the same way the Dems are willing to, nothing’s going to change.
had some comments on this but ttag deleted them. can’t figure out why.
While this would be fantastic and all it is not gonna pass, unfortunately.
My hands, wrists, and shoulders hurt just reading that.
Lets add suppressors!
The bottom line is the Taxes on sbr’s, silencers, Mg’s and short shotguns are all un justified. There are over 340,000,000 people in the u.s. law enforcement can only try to contain violence after it occurs. The person that pulls the trigger does the violence not the firearm. Thats what ignorant people just cant understand. You want to stop firearm fatalities, other than an obvious unintentional accident.. if a person uses a fire arm to kill another, and the evidence is undeniable, that the suspect committed the act. Take that person or persons in the woods and put two in there head, lex talionis (eye for an eye) you’ll stop gun fatalities.
Suppressors too???
Not a snowball’s chance in hell this will surmount a Senate 60 vote threshold and pass.
would love to put a 12″ barrel on my AR platform 10mm rifle without having to go thru the NFA, GCA process. Pistol caliber carbines should be exempt from these laws.