A senate RESOLUTION

To request that the Attorney General Initiate or join existing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms' new regulation related to stabilizing braces in order to protect the second amendment rights of all south carolinians.

Whereas, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution secures the right to keep and bear arms for every citizen of our nation and further provides that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; and

Whereas, on January 13, 2023, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms announced that it has taken the final step in promulgating a new regulation affecting the use of stabilizing braces on pistols and other firearms; and

Whereas, under this new regulation pistols and other firearms utilizing stabilizing braces will, for the first time in our nation's history, be subject to the National Firearms Act and owners of these weapons are faced with the requirement to register their firearm with the federal government, remove the attached stabilizing brace, or hand over the firearm to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and

Whereas, the new regulation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is an unconstitutional infringement on the right to bear arms. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, request that the Attorney General initiate or join existing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' new regulation related to stabilizing braces in order to protect the Second Amendment rights of all South Carolinians.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to Attorney General Alan Wilson.

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