Providing for Consideration of H.J. Res. Providing for Congressional Disapproval Under the Rule Submitted By the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Relating to ``Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached `Stabilizing Braces' Providing for Consideration of H.R. Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of Providing for Consideration of H.R. Separation of Powers Restoration Act of Providing for Consideration of H.R. Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act; and Providing for Consideration of H.R. Save Our Gas Stoves Act

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Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, the GOP has become, sadly, the ``Guns Over People'' party. Their answer to the desperate pleas of families from all across America who want to stop the slaughter of schoolchildren and other innocents--their answer is to do absolutely nothing.

Today, during this National Gun Violence Awareness Month, what do they do?

They go a step further. This is the only opportunity this year that Speaker McCarthy has permitted us to consider any gun violence legislation. What do they do about gun violence?

They enable a little more of it. More pistol braces in the hands of killers will cause us to brace for more death.

Republicans want to stop an ATF rule that will require background checks in certain narrow instances when a brace turns a handgun into a rifle. Background checks are exactly what we need for all gun purchases so that those who go through the gun shop loophole and don't get a check when they buy it at a gun show or on the internet have to have the same standard as if they bought it in a gun shop.

They will not even permit us to respond to the desperate pleas of the people of Uvalde to ban weapons of war from the hands of teenagers who couldn't on their own go out and buy a beer.

There is an orgy of violence going on, and they are obstructing those of us who want to respond to the police from doing anything about it, from banning weapons of war, from requiring background checks to ensure we know what kind of person is getting a gun and, if they have a problem, they ought to be denied that access.

The gun industry is marketing these so-called ``stabilizing braces'' to convert heavy pistols into short-barreled rifles that are more concealable.

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Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, the guns are already the number one killer of children in our country. This year, there have been 291 mass shootings. We can count the numbers, but we can't count the pain of an empty chair where there was once a vibrant parent or a wonderful little child who was murdered in a mass shooting. This Congress could do something about it if we could end the obstruction. We need to move toward reducing gun violence, not enabling it.

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