WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator the Rev. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., issued the following statement after voting to oppose an attempt to halt a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ regulation regarding the use of pistol braces. The Senate rejected the disapproval resolution 49-50.
“This is the gun lobby’s agenda, not the agenda of the American people,” Warnock said. “After weeks and months of terrible gun violence, not only has Congress taken no action to strengthen gun safety, but some lawmakers are actively trying to move us in the opposite and wrong direction. The shooter who murdered precious children in a Nashville school just in March was only the most recent in a line of mass shooters who was armed with a pistol brace in carrying out their despicable crimes. Doing away with new, critical federal pistol brace regulations meant to prevent these kinds of tragedies would make the world more dangerous for all of us.
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