WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) this week joined U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and group of 24 other senators in demanding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) provide answers on recent actions to infringe on Americans’ Second Amendment rights by preventing law-abiding citizens from creating and owning suppressors.
In a letter to ATF Acting Director Marvin Richardson, the senators wrote, “These continued assaults of the Second Amendment threaten law-abiding Americans’ rights as they try to follow ATF guidance on making these parts. We request that the ATF provide us answers on why they are rejecting legal applications and denying law abiding citizens access to their Second Amendment right. The ATF was not established to interfere with a basic right afforded to every American.”
Also joining Senators Capito and Daines were Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Hoeven (R-S.D.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.).
To read the full letter click here.
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