{"id":115367,"date":"2026-02-28T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115367"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:46:10","slug":"115367","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115367","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Eric Schmitt Urges ATF to Repeal Three Biden-Era Gun Regulations<\/a><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) wrote to\u00a0Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Deputy Director Robert Cekada to congratulate him on his nomination to lead the Bureau and follow-up on their discussion during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee\u00a0urging him to repeal three major Biden-era gun rules that infringed law-abiding gunowners\u2019\u00a0Second Amendment rights and exceeded ATF\u2019s statutory authority.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past, ATF often relied on Chevron Deference to expand its regulatory remit and restrict the liberties of law-abiding Americans. But, thankfully, the era of deference to the administrative state is over. It is time for the ATF to adjust its regulations accordingly. I therefore strongly encourage the ATF to repeal the Biden-era Frame or Receiver Rule, Stabilizing Brace Rule, and \u2018Engaged in the Business\u2019 Rule. As I explained during the hearing, these rules exceeded the ATF\u2019s statutory authority, threatened to turn law-abiding gunowners into felons overnight, and contained such vague standards that even those who tried to comply with them in good faith were left without sufficient notice of the scope of ATF\u2019s mandates,\u201d\u00a0Senator Schmitt wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senator Schmitt is calling for the repeal of the following rules:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Frame or Receiver Rule:\u00a0<\/strong>Biden\u2019s ATF re-interpreted the Gun Control Act to cover weapons parts kits as well as any \u201cpartially complete, disassembled, or nonfunctional\u201d \u201cframe\u201d or \u201creceiver.\u201d That re-interpretation usurped Congress\u2019s legislative power and threatened to turn legal gunowners into felons overnight.<\/li>\n
  2. Stabilizing Brace Rule:\u00a0<\/strong>Biden\u2019s ATF re-interpreted \u201crifle\u201d and \u201cshort-barreled\u201d rifle under the National Firearms Act to include some pistols with stabilizing braces. Because possession of a non-compliant short-barreled rifle bears significant regulatory consequences, this rule imposed a significant burden on American gunowners.\u00a0A federal court previously held that this rule was illegal because it was \u201carbitrary and capricious.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cEngaged in the Business\u201d Rule:\u00a0<\/strong>Biden\u2019s ATF drastically expanded when an individual is \u201cengaged in the business\u201d of dealing in firearms, and thus subject to the Gun Control Act\u2019s regulations for licensed dealers. In this rule, the ATF violated Congress\u2019 clear statutory\u00a0instructions and imposed an unlawful burden on gunowners through a vague, difficult-to-comply-with regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read the full letter\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Senator Eric Schmitt Urges ATF to Repeal Three Biden-Era Gun Regulations WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) wrote to\u00a0Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Deputy Director Robert Cekada to congratulate him on his nomination to lead the Bureau and follow-up on their discussion during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee\u00a0urging … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115368,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115367\/revisions\/115368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}