Last week the Biden White House announced the introduction of a new rule aimed at combating “ghost guns” or firearms without a reference number. The new rule would expand the definition of “firearm” to include pre-fabricated and non-assembled kits available for sale.
Naturally, Republican leaders in Congress are looking to fight back against the administration’s actions.
The office of Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced late last week plans backed by several Senate Republicans to stop the efforts of the Biden administration “from implementing a new rule to expand firearm definitions.”
In the press release provided by his office, Cruz said:
“For the past two years, we’ve seen crime rates skyrocket all across the country, aided by Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies and left-wing district attorneys operating like progressive activists instead of law enforcement officers. Democrats would love nothing more than to shift the blame and stoke anti-gun sentiment and create a permanent national gun registry in the process. By introducing this resolution, we’re pushing back—we want to stop the Biden administration from issuing the final rule expanding the definition of firearms and instituting a national gun registry, we want to stop the false narrative that links the rise in crime to ‘ghost guns,’ and firearms, and we want to protect law-abiding citizens who are exercising their Second Amendment rights.”
Utah Senator Mike Lee, another co-sponsor of the resolution, said:
“Congress was explicit in the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act that federal gun registries are prohibited. Nevertheless, the Biden Administration and the ATF are determined to restrict Second Amendment rights. The Biden Administration is willing to exceed legal authority, deliberately misinterpret the law, and ignore explicit prohibitions to enact its radical anti-gun agenda.”
Cruz and Lee are also two of the eleven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. They will have a chance to foil Biden’s gun control agenda further when Steven Dettelbach — his announced nominee to head the ATF — is brought before the committee in the coming weeks.
Other Republicans partnering with Cruz to introduce the resolution are Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma and Senator Mike Braun of Indiana.
Both chambers are currently in the second week of Easter recess, but hopefully, this resolution will pass the Senate sooner rather than later.
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Victoria Snitsar Churchill is a proud immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen with a decade of experience in grassroots politics and community organizing.
Her writing has been featured in many online publications, including Campus Reform, The Daily Torch and The Daily Signal.
As an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, Victoria appeared in media outlets such as CBS News, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Blaze and NRATV.
Victoria is also a former NCAA D1 student-athlete and Kansas College Republicans State Chair.
After moving eleven times in six years, Victoria resides in Arlington, Virginia and enjoys overpriced brunch on Sundays with her husband.
If the FOPA bars gun registries, why is this administration making gun dealers turn in their sales records when they close their businesses? Back door federal gun registry. They want to know who and where we are and what weapons we own.. Now is the time for a national closed carry permit which allows you to closed carry in every state. Just another gun confiscation ruse in sheep’s clothing.
When i closed my gun business i was required to send the ATF my sales of firearms i never understude why the NICS isn’t kept up to date,, events have proven that they don’t. I am back as mostly gunsmithing which i enjoy but on every sale of firearm i still required to keep a reg. Even customers firearms i’m required to keep records of that, which i don’t think that is right, i have to record them also.