Jeff Van Drew: “I thank the gentleman for doing this today, and I thank him for leading the fight. Yesterday, I stood on this floor…”

“I thank the gentleman for doing this today, and I thank him for leading the fight. Yesterday, I stood on this floor fighting to protect Americans' First Amendment rights. Today, I am standing here fighting to protect Americans' Second Amendment rights. God help our Constitution. Congress has afforded far too much deference to unelected D.C. bureaucrats in Federal agencies, and it is time, with our majority, to rein in that extreme power. The left has talked about taking your gas stoves away, has censored your speech, and now the ATF, under the guidance of this administration, is coming to take away millions of pistols from law- abiding gun owners, individuals who own pistol braces, which were originally approved by the ATF themselves. What has changed? What is different? What is new? I will tell you what has changed. What has changed is now we have an administration that is desperate to erode our Second Amendment rights in more and more pervasive ways as every year passes. It has continually chipped away at Americans' constitutional rights because of the lack of understanding of what the actual roots of gun violence are. The administration is abusing the powers delegated to the ATF to illegally track gun owners, perform unauthorized compliance checks at people's homes, and now banning popular modifications that, I will say it again, they approved in the first place. It has to stop. We are tired of it. Americans are tired of it. This has to end.…”