A veteran can buy a brace any day of the year. We love, admire and respect our veterans. But at the same time, we respect our first responders. Police officers and fire fighters and others who are on the front lines. Or former combat veterans who say we don’t need automatic weapons in the hands of civilians. There’s no hunting purpose…there’s not purpose.
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a shootout in your district between a criminal with a ghost gun against police officers. That is what we’re trying to prevent. I don’t want to see that in Houston, Texas ever again.
You can buy the brace without a background check. But when it becomes a dangerous weapon, when that brace changes the gun’s legal status and makes it, in essence, the same that caused a mass shooting at a Boulder, Colorado supermarket, the stabilizing brace and a shorter barrel made a pistol under federal gun regulation.
And so saving lives is why I’m standing here on the floor. Protecting police officers is why I’m on the floor. Protecting firefighters…and the the highest calling that I’m on the floor is protecting children. And stopping Uvalde and Sandy Hook and Parkland. And the list goes on in Santa Fe. But a brace can be bought without a background check. And the rule that’s being overturned simply has the ATF…simply has the ATF doing the right thing.
— Representative Sheila Jackson Lee
