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Subcommittee Chairman Biggs:
“Mr. Bosco, as the designer and inventor of the pistol brace, did the ATF contact you for input or collaboration when they went to change the rule you had been relying on for ten years?”
Mr. Bosco:
“No, they didn’t but for years we worked with ATF to try to get to the bottom of parameters that we could work with to allow us to make a product that fit and suit what they thought the needs should be.”
Subcommittee Chairman Biggs:
“Miss Swearer, as an expert in this area, were you contacted?”
Miss Swearer:
“I was not.”
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) quantified the harmful ramifications of the ATF’s final rule on Americans and the unconstitutional autonomy with which ATF operates.
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Rep. Donalds:
“How many Americans do you think will become felons as a result of this rule?”
Mr. Bosco:
“Anywhere between 10 and 40 million Americans own arm braces at this moment…you will have an effect that come, I believe, May 16th which the deadline, if someone wasn’t smart enough to look up the federal register, who didn’t know about this rule, from one day to the next, would be in possession of an unregistered short barreled rifle. He would be committing a crime which is punishable up to 10 years in prison, it’s a felony offense, and a $250,000 dollar fine.”
Rep. Donalds:
“Did Congress pass a law to stipulate the ATF do this?”
Mr. Bosco:
“Unequivocally, no.”
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) touched on the false notion that guns don’t protect women when they are actually a useful tool for women to protect themselves.
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Rep. Luna:
“Do you believe that firearms, and women that have firearms is apparently anti-women?”
Miss. Swearer:
“This is something that’s been raised several times in this hearing today, the idea that guns don’t protect women. Of course they do and personally I take offense at having my natural right to self-defense mansplained to me by members of this body who come to work every day protected by armed men with guns.”Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) slammed the ATF for reversing course without Congress’ approval on a decade of precedence which gun owners relied on for guidance to following ATF’s regulations.