Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his leadership on this important issue because the unelected career bureaucrats are at it again. They are launching attacks on our constitutional rights, the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners. This seems to be the sole purpose of the agency lately, attacking the Second Amendment. Now they want to ban pistol braces. Americans who don't know what a pistol brace is might have some obvious questions after hearing about this ban. What is a pistol brace? Obviously, it makes guns more deadly, right? It makes guns shoot faster. It makes them want to be used only by people who want to murder other people. Why else would the ATF want to ban it? But the Americans who actually use pistol braces know the reality: There is zero logical reason to ban pistol braces. It is a device used by a lot of disabled veterans, a lot of people I know, to provide more stability when shooting a gun. Tens of millions of Americans own this brace, but they would immediately become felons when this goes into effect. That is not even practical from a law enforcement perspective. Now, you could argue, actually, that the pistol brace makes the gun safer; it makes it less likely to shoot things they are not aiming at. But no, the impulsive leaders at ATF have once again failed to apply simple logic and reason to their decisionmaking and, instead, chose to apply the mindset of the authoritarian, gun-grabbing bureaucrats we all know that they are.…”