Byron Donalds: “I actually want to welcome the people who are here in the gallery. I am glad they are here to see this. What they are…”

“I actually want to welcome the people who are here in the gallery. I am glad they are here to see this. What they are witnessing is actually something functional that Congress should be doing. We have a Federal agency called the ATF that has unilaterally decided that they want to make illegal a piece of equipment that they legalized more than a decade ago. The ATF said that the pistol brace is a functional and legal piece that can be added to--and I stress ``added to''--a firearm, and they allowed it to be sold in the United States for more than a decade. Now, why do I say, ``added to''? The question for the people in the gallery and the people watching on C-SPAN across the country is: Have you ever seen a pistol brace? It is mostly plastic and/or carbon fiber. It wraps around your forearm, and it has a little pole that sticks out to the midpoint of your hand. The purpose of said brace is for people who actually had an arm injury but still wanted to take advantage of their Second Amendment rights, and the ATF more than a decade ago allowed that brace to be sold in the United States. We now have the same ATF who is deciding unilaterally to go back and say that that brace now needs to be registered, and if you don't register it, you are a felon in the United States. If that is not a gross violation of separation of powers, I don't know what is.…”