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Three ATF Overreaches Are Finally Getting Axed · Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights

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  Well, welcome to the Live Shoot podcast.
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  My name is Jeff Dowdle, and I've been a licensed firearms dealer for the last 18 years.
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  In this podcast, we talk about all things related to the Second Amendment, anything else going on in the world of sports story, or anything else I find interesting.
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  So welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Well, I got some good news for you today.
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  Remember we talked about some of those 34, uh, rule, proposed rules that the, uh, ATF put out?
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  Well, we've got, some, uh, details on those, so, and that's gonna be interesting.
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  So here's the headline.
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  ATF has officially published the details of, of three major gun rule rollbacks.
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  And they are three of the most controversial federal gun roll, rollback regulations from the last, you know, seven years, and they could all officially disappear.
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  And I'm not talking about vague promises or political rhetoric.
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  I'm talking about actually published regulatory actions in the Federal Register that lay out the path of undoing these rules.
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  So let's walk through what's happening, what it means, and why it matters.
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  So let's start with the three rules we're talking about.
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  Number one, the pistol brace rules.
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  Number two, the so-called ghost gun rule, which, uh, redefined what counts as a firearm frame or a receiver.
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  And number three, the enhanced background check rule that was, uh, tied to the Bipartisan Safer Community Act, uh, which my favorite senator in Texas here, John Cornyn, was behind.
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  And this, uh, specifically affected younger buyers, uh, that, uh, aged between, uh, 18 to 20.
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  Now, if you're listening to this podcast for any time, you know I've talked about all these.
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  Each one of them represented a massive overreach by the ATF under Biden.
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  Each one of them tried to rewrite the rules without Congress actually passing a new law, and each one of them turned ordinary law-abiding gun owners into potential felons with the stroke of a pen.
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  So let's break them down.
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  First, the pistol brace rule.
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  This was the one where the ATF decided that if you, uh, had a stabilizing brace on your pistols, congratulations, you now owned a short barrel rifle.
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  That meant you were subject to the National Firearms Act.
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  You needed a tax stamp, you needed to register it, and if you didn't comply, you were looking at felony charges.
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  Millions of gun owners were affected by this, millions.
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  People who bought legal products, used them legally, and were told overnight that they were now breaking the law.
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  Courts pushed back hard.
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  Injunctions were issued.
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  It was a mess.
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  And now the ATF has published a framework to officially withdraw this rule.
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  Good riddance.
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  Second, frame and receiver.
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  Now, this one was called the, the ghost gun rule.
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  What the ATF did was redefine what constitutes a firearm under federal law.
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  They expanded the definition of frames and receivers to include, include parts kits, partially completed frames, and basically anything that they felt that they could become a firearm at some point.
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  Now, here's the problem with that The law, that law is, the law is the law Sorry.
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  Congress defined what a firearm is.
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  The ATF doesn't get to just expand that definition because they don't like what people are doing.
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  That's not how this thing works.
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  That's how many of the...
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  how anything works.
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  And so the rule is also on the chopping block.
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  And third, enhanced background check rule for younger buyers.
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  This one came out of the Bipartisan Safer Community Act, and it created a whole new layer of background check procedures for people aged eighteen to twenty.
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  Now, look, I understand the impulse.
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  People want to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
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  I get that.
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  But what this did was, in practice, was create delays and additional bureaucratic hurdles for young adults who have every legal right to purchase a firearm.
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  You can vote at eighteen, you can serve in the military at eighteen, but buying a shotgun, well, hold on, we need to dig through your juvenile records first and add a bunch of extra ti- wait time.
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  It was uneven, it was burdensome, and it treated the entire age group as su- suspects.
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  So that rule is being rolled back too.
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  So what's all this mean?
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  Well, here's what, where it gets interesting.
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  These aren't just proposals.
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  The ATF has actually published the details in the Federal Register.
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  Now, that doesn't mean they'll, they vanish tomorrow.
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  There's a process.
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  There's comment periods, there's legal challenges from the other side, from the gun control groups who will fight tooth and nail to keep these rules in place.
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  So this isn't a done deal, but it's significant and it's a concrete step in the right direction.
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  Now, I'm gonna be straight with you.
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  This is good news, but we cannot get complacent.
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  Every time we win one of these battles, the other side regroups.
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  That can, that can come at us from any different angle.
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  They push a new regulation, a new executive action, a new interpretation of existing law.
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  That's been the pattern for decades.
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  So yes, celebrate, but stay engaged.
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  And here's the bottom line.
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  These rollbacks re- represent something bigger than just three rules.
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  They represent a recognition that the ATF went too far.
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  The unelected bureaucrats cannot rewrite federal firearm laws without Congress, that the regulatory state has its limits, and that it's a principle worth defending, whether you own a pistol brace or not, whether you even, you ever built a firearm from a kit or not.
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  This isn't just about these specific rules.
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  It's about the relationship between the government and your constitutional right.
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  At the end of the second day...
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  At the end of the day, the Second Amendment doesn't come with an asterisk.
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  It doesn't say your right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed unless an agency decides to redefine what a firearm is.
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  It doesn't say unless we add extra hoops for young adults to jump through.
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  The right is right, and rolling back these overreaches, overreaches is exactly what should happen when the government steps out of bounds.
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  So keep your eyes open.
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  Watch for the comment periods.
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  If you get a chance to submit a comment in support of these rollbacks, do it.
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  Your voice matters in the process more than you think.
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  And keep telling your friends and family what's going on.
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  So if you found any of this valuable, please subscribe, share it with somebody, give it five stars, subscribe to my newsletter.
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  You have links in the show notes.
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  We need more people paying attention to what's happening at the right, not fewer.
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  And I appreciate it.
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  Jeff Battle, this is The Lib Shoot, defending the Second Amendment.
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  Stay informed, stay armed, and keep fighting.
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  Talk to you next week.