{"id":680,"date":"2023-01-17T05:19:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2023-01-17T05:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:19:47","slug":"take-action-help-stop-the-atfs-pistol-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"TAKE ACTION: Help Stop the ATF\u2019s Pistol Ban!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>On this past Friday the 13th, the ATF massacred your God-given rights by finalizing Biden\u2019s pistol ban.<\/p>\n<p>This executive action will ban up to 40,000,000 pistols with attached \u201cstabilizing braces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The ATF is forcing millions of gun owners like you to choose among the following options:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em><strong>Rebuild your firearm at your own cost<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em><strong>[Register it with the federal government]<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2757.png\" alt=\"\u2757\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>Destroy your own LEGALLY purchased firearm<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2757.png\" alt=\"\u2757\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>Go to jail for up to 10 years and pay up to a $250,000 fine<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026But Gun Owners of America has another option for you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">We need your help urging the House and Senate to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which allows Congress to pass a Joint Resolution of Disapproval to REPEAL an unconstitutional executive action imposed by a government agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net\/messages\/edit?promo_id=18840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Please add your name to our pre-written letter urging your Representative and two Senators to REPEAL the ATF\u2019s pistol ban<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net\/messages\/edit?promo_id=18840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADD YOUR NAME<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden and Kamala just secured a 51-seat majority in the Senate, so you may be thinking this CRA would be dead on arrival, if it passes the Republican-controlled House\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>But here\u2019s the good news: it only takes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">30 Senators<\/span> to force a CRA vote in the Senate.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, that still doesn\u2019t make it a guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen how quickly allegedly \u201cpro-gun\u201d Senators can fold under pressure from the media and well-funded attack ads.<\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s why we need our members like YOU to light a fire under every House member and Senator to ensure a CRA is forced in Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net\/messages\/edit?promo_id=18840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADD YOUR NAME<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) is the underlying law which gives the ATF the foothold to ban millions of legal guns \u2013 <em>guns that were originally deemed permissible by the ATF!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, in the previous Congress, Rep. Clyde introduced the SHORT (Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today) Act, which would remove the unconstitutional taxation, registration, and regulation in the National Firearms Act of Short Barreled Rifles, Short Barreled Shotguns, and those classified under \u201cAny Other Weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SHORT Act goes after the heart of Biden\u2019s pistol ban by deregulating the National Firearms Act that ultimately gives the ATF the power to enforce Biden\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we\u2019re also urging Congress to vote YES on the SHORT Act, as it will shortly be reintroduced in the new Congress.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You see, GOA is committed to using every single tool at our disposal to fight this unconstitutional assault on our rights.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In fact, If Biden vetoes the CRA or the SHORT Act, we\u2019re urging Congress to retaliate in defense of our Second Amendment rights by cutting the ATF\u2019s funding.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Speaker\u2019s gavel has been taken out of Pelosi\u2019s hands, the new House majority better make true on its promises to gun owners by using the Power of the Purse to slash the ATF\u2019s funding.<\/p>\n<p>The ATF reportedly processed 512,315 NFA forms in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At that rate \u2013 assuming no further backlog and assuming all affected gun owners comply with gun registration \u2013 it would take the ATF over 78 years to process all the pistol registration forms required by this executive action.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s especially critical to SLASH the ATF\u2019s funds right now and strip them of their ability to enforce Biden\u2019s pistol ban.<\/p>\n<p>While GOA continues to fight this unconstitutional executive action on every front, we need YOUR help pressuring Congress to get moving immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net\/messages\/edit?promo_id=18840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>So please, add your name to our pre-written letter urging your Representative and two Senators to use the CRA to pass a Joint Resolution of Disapproval to REPEAL the ATF\u2019s pistol ban.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net\/messages\/edit?promo_id=18840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">REPEAL THE ATF\u2019S PISTOL BAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/na01162023\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this past Friday the 13th, the ATF massacred your God-given rights by finalizing Biden\u2019s pistol ban. This executive action will ban up to 40,000,000 pistols with attached \u201cstabilizing braces.\u201d The ATF is forcing millions of gun owners like you to choose among the following options: Rebuild your firearm at your own cost [Register it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2a-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}