By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
A group of ten Republican congressmen, led by Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas has filed a bill to roll back former President Joe Biden’s gun control law known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
Joining Hunt are Reps. Troy Nehls (TX), Andrew Clyde (GA), Brandon Gill (TX), Chip Roy (TX), Paul Gosar (AZ), John Rose (TN), Byron Donalds (FL), Barry Moore (AL), and Michael Collins (GA).
The two-page bill, H.R. 6035, may be read here. Among the things it would accomplish, if passed, would be “Elimination of funding for NICS expansion of juvenile records.—Paragraph (3) under the heading “State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice Programs—state and local law enforcement assistance” of title I of division B of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Supplemental Appropriations Act (Public Law 117–159) is amended by striking “, including grants to assist States in providing disqualifying juvenile records under subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 of title 18, United States Code.”
In a prepared statement announcing the legislation, Hunt explained, “The Second Amendment Restoration Act reverses the dangerous provisions of the so-called Safer Communities Act, which pushed red flag laws on Texans and funded their expansion nationwide. The Constitution is crystal clear: our right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Every lawmaker who claims to stand for freedom should support this bill without hesitation. Protecting the right of Americans to defend themselves and their families is not just policy, it’s principle.”
The bill has been sent to the House Judiciary Committee, but so far, no hearings have been scheduled. With the holidays looming, it is not clear whether this measure will actually move. There does not appear to be companion legislation in the Senate.
Biden’s gun control measure was passed in 2022 following the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas. It got, as noted by Guns.com, “a modicum of GOP support.” Democrats powered the bill, if only to be able to declare they had helped pass “the first gun control legislation in many years.”
But, has it actually made communities safer? This depends upon to whom one listens.
