[SPEAKER_00]: The Department of Justice has formally withdrawn its appeal in a lawsuit targeting the Joe Biden administration's regulation of our style pistols equipped with stabilizing braces. [SPEAKER_00]: News.com has learned that the move effectively halts enforcement of a rule that could have turned millions of gun owners into criminals overnight.
[SPEAKER_00]: filed by a private gun owner in a second amendment advocacy group firearms policy coalition FPC the lawsuit challenged the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives ATFS twenty twenty three rule requiring registration in the tax payment for pistols equipped with stabilizing traces. [SPEAKER_00]: The department's decision not to continue defending the rule in court assumed by gun rights advocates as a critical legal victory.
[SPEAKER_00]: The now abandoned regulation stem from a policy shift under President Biden in which the ATF reversed its prior stance on pistol braces. [SPEAKER_00]: For more than a decade, the braces initially designed to assist disabled shooters were not treated as modifications requiring further regulation. [SPEAKER_00]: In twenty twenty three, the ATF reclassified pistols equipped with braces as short barrel rifles under the National Firearms Act.
[SPEAKER_00]: The change required owners to register the weapons and pay a two hundred dollars tax. [SPEAKER_00]: Although the fee was weighed for those who registered voluntarily, millions did not comply, leaving them exposed to potential felony charges. [SPEAKER_00]: According to industry in ATF estimates, as many as forty million braces were in circulation at the top. [SPEAKER_00]: The Justice Department's latest move makes pistol braces legal to use.
[SPEAKER_00]: Today is a great day for freedom and the American people, set at PC President Brandon Combs. [SPEAKER_00]: The dismissal of this appeal should be the final nail in the coffin of this unconstitutional Biden ATF assault on gun owners. [SPEAKER_00]: As we explained in the case filings, graced pistols are not short barrel rifles. [SPEAKER_00]: But either way, they are unquestionably armed, protected under the Second Amendment.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are thrilled to have secured this important win for liberty and excited to take on even more unconstitutional laws so you can exercise your rights when, where, and how you choose. [SPEAKER_00]: Cody J. was Newsy, an attorney for the plaintiffs and President of FPC Action Foundation. [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Government's Retrieve.
[SPEAKER_00]: The government is finally retreating from the Biden administration's patently unlawful effort to turn millions of peaceful people into felons by decree. [SPEAKER_00]: He set an estate. [SPEAKER_00]: This horrible rule was a perversion of our system of limited government, so we're glad to see this case resolved in favor of liberty and the rule of law. [SPEAKER_01]: Knowledge. [SPEAKER_01]: Unfilter. [SPEAKER_01]: Unfilter.