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GOA to Key Vote “NO” on Undetectable Firearms Act <\/strong><\/p>\n Biden\u2019s \u201cFrame or Receiver\u201d rule shows how this statute could be weaponized to outlaw guns with plastic parts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes it takes decades for a poorly drafted anti-gun law to rise up and bite you. The 1968 gun ban for “mental defectives” sat around for 25 years before an anti-gun Clinton administration decided to use it to disarm more than 250,000 law-abiding veterans who had never been before a court. The Obama Administration approved pistol braces and 40,000,000 were manufactured and sold before President Biden decided to ban them. The “plastic gun ban” is another massive time bomb in federal law. It will be reauthorized permanently in the Senate National Defense Authorization Act<\/em>\u2014if Congress doesn’t stop it.<\/p>\n Background Information on this Outdated and Ineffective Statute<\/strong><\/p>\n Unless it existed before December 10, 1988, the plastic gun ban absolutely bans any gun that is not as detectable in a “walk-through metal detector” as a Security Exemplar.[i]<\/a> In addition, every “major component” of every firearm has to pass through an airport x-ray in such a way that its shape is “accurately” depicted.[ii]<\/a><\/p>\n The \u201cSecurity Exemplar\u201d is a piece of metal that the ATF uses to calibrate how much steel a manufacturer needs to put in the gun to make it beep in the metal detector.\u00a0 Other than the fact that it has to contain 3.7 ounces of steel and look sort of like a gun, anti-gun Attorney General Merrick Garland can determine, by regulatory fiat, the characteristics of the Exemplar. He can determine whether you test guns with a “top flight” metal detector\u2014or a crummy one. He can determine how many times (or thousands of times) a gun has to pass in order not to be banned. Check out our Minute Man Moment for more information.[iii]<\/a><\/p>\n Under the \u201cFrame or Receiver\u201d Rule, More Gun Parts Fail the \u201cMajor Components\u201d Requirement<\/strong><\/p>\n The statute contains a list of parts of guns which are definitely “major components.”\u00a0 But one of the \u201cmajor components\u201d is the \u201cframe or receiver of the firearm\u201d\u2014which the Biden Administration recently attempted to redefine to mean any gun part or parts kit.[iv]<\/a> \u00a0When analyzing ATF\u2019s proposed rule, GOA found at least 16 parts on a Glock falling within the proposed definition.[v]<\/a><\/p>\n If we didn’t have a President and an Attorney General who have violated and perverted the law again and again and again, gun owners might be able to rest easy.\u00a0 But the language does not protect gun owners against an administration intent on destroying the Second Amendment. So, what if Attorney General Merrick Garland determines a small plastic gun part is a \u201creceiver\u201d and therefore an \u201cundetectable firearm\u201d?<\/u><\/strong> Well, \u201c[i]t shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive\u201d the gun to which that gun part attaches.[vi]<\/a> This statute could be weaponized into a larger gun ban than the Biden Pistol Ban\u2014which criminalized the possession of up to 40,000,000 pistols.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n This Statute\u2019s Impact on Public Safety is Undetectable<\/strong><\/p>\n So, for those Republicans who are talking about locking us into a permanent reauthorization of this statute that could ban lots of guns, tell them: \u201cplease don’t.\u201d In case they\u2019re still unconvinced, here are a few of more important points:<\/p>\n Ultimately, victory feeds on itself.\u00a0 And defeat feeds on itself.\u00a0 And, if Republicans gratuitously give the anti-gun Far Left a victory without firing a shot, they will have only succeeded in bringing to life a gun control movement which has, as a chief objective, the destruction of our constitutional liberties.<\/p>\n The Undetectable Firearms Act, <\/em>was passed in 1988 in response to no particular threat and has been useless during its 35 years of existence. On behalf of more than two million law-abiding gun owners, GOA would ask that you resist any move to reauthorize this unconstitutional legislation. GOA will score any vote in favor of reauthorizing this statute as anti-gun.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Call your Senators and tell them to vote “NO” at (202) 224-3121<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [i]<\/a> 18 U.S.C. 922(p)(1)(A) and (6).<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a>\u00a0 18 U.S.C. 922(p)(1)(B).<\/p>\n [iii]<\/a> Gun Owners of America. \u201cThe ATF is Rewriting the Definition of a Firearm | MMM Ep. 32<\/a>\u201d. YouTube<\/em>. July 15th<\/sup>, 2021.<\/p>\n [iv]<\/a> Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. \u201cDefinition of \u2018Frame or Receiver\u2019 and Identification of Firearms\u201d. May 21st<\/sup>, 2021. 86 FR 27720.<\/p>\n [v]<\/a> Gun Owners of America. \u201cPlastic Gun Ban – EXPLAINED<\/a>\u201d. YouTube<\/em>. December 9th<\/sup>, 2021.<\/p>\n\n