The Senate on Thursday shot down a Republican-backed joint resolution that disapproves the Biden administration’s new rule on pistol braces.
The resolution, originally sponsored by 182 Republican members of Congress, passed the House last week by a largely party-line vote of 219-210. It failed by one vote, 49-50, in the Senate.
The measure would have nullified a rule finalized in January by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which mandated gun owners across the nation to register their AR-15-style pistols before June 1.
Under the rule, AR pistols fitted with arm braces that could potentially allow the weapon to be fired from the shoulder are now classified as short-barreled rifles regulated by the National Firearm Act and must be registered as such. The ATF tells Americans possessing such weapons that they can also replace the short barrel with a 16-inch or longer one, destroy the brace, or even forfeit or destroy the weapon….