Tactical Sh!t News reports that the AFT has published their new pistol brace trap rule. If they think you have one that qualifies under the rule, you have 120 days to license it, which you can’t possibly do (as explained here), or you will be a felon.
Related: How to Make Felons Out of Millions of Law-Abiding Citizens with the Stroke of a Pen
Here are a few highlights from the previous piece if you missed them.
- The rule is complex and poorly written but includes a grace period for you to license your firearm under the new rule.
- You have 120 days after it has been published in the Federal Register, and here’s where the trap comes in.
- ATF is now handling all firearms background checks.
- The process for required licensing of a qualifying firearm prior to the writing of the new rule could take a lot longer than 120 days.
- Filing requires you to provide the ATF with your name, address, and all sorts of stuff, including fingerprints.
- Any request that goes unapproved for 88 days is automatically declined.
- ATF’s default response is (to a declined request is) to engage in an enforcement action against you, and you’ve sent them all the information they need to find you, arrest you, and confiscate your property, because you tried to comply with their rule.
From Tactical Sh!t.
The new rule will be published in the Federal Register on January 31st for those who wear stabilizing braces. This officially begins the 120-day countdown to the effective date. Of course, this is assuming (you know how that goes) that it is not overturned in court.
*Yes, there are lawsuits.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the suit immediately after the ATF unveiled Tuesday’s new rule; see also here and here.
A group of military veterans is suing the Biden administration over a new gun rule that they say dramatically expands the definition of “rifle” to include certain pistols, putting millions of gun-owning Americans at risk of criminal liability, according to a complaint filed in federal court on Tuesday morning. …
The suit asked the court to block the new regulation, arguing that the ATF rule is “arbitrary, capricious,” and “invalid.”
New Hampshire has also passed HB1178, which prohibits any publicly funded state agencies or agents from helping the feds enforce such rules, but it also permits them to assist if a law is broken. This is not a law. It is a rule. And “not helping” is not the same as protecting and defending our rights, the only reason for which governments are instituted by men.
Yeah, I read that somewhere. And I think it’s a safe bet that the 120-day clock will get hung up while the case works through the courts. It might be years. But men with guns coming to deny the rights of men with guns has some history in America. It started a revolution a few years back.
Perhaps the Live Free or Die State and its allegedly pro-gun Governor could make some public statement about New Hampshire’s commitment to protecting the natural rights of law-abiding citizens from tyrannical federal overreach. Or something.
Or would it be a bad look for Chris Sununu when he runs for President?
