U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis is seeking answers about what she referred to as the Biden Administration’s infringements on the Second Amendment rights of people in Wyoming. Lummis and a group of 25 senators wrote a letter to Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Regina Richardson requesting an explanation for changes to the ATF’s handling of applications to create and own a firearm silencer. According to Lummis, the ATF has been rejecting law-abiding Americans’ attempts to create and own a silencer, even though federal law has not changed, and the ATF’s own website acknowledges that federal law allows individuals to make a silencer.
Lummis said that she’s deeply opposed to unelected bureaucrats making extra-legal decisions to unilaterally keep citizens from exercising their rights, and she expects the ATF to answer for their actions. Historically, the ATF has required law-abiding citizens to fill out a form and pay a fee before creating a firearm silencer for personal use. Now, the ATF is treating parts used for the assembly of a silencer as though they were already a silencer. This forces companies selling those parts to pay more in taxes, and forces the individual buyer to fill out more paperwork when registering a silencer. To read the full letter, click here.
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Last modified: March 22, 2022