•    "The U.S. Justice Department has issued a final rule to properly classify firearms that are equipped with a “stabilizing brace” that makes them especially lethal. Guns equipped with this brace have been used in several horrendous attacks, including the March shooting that left three children and three adults at Covenant School in Tennessee dead. H.J. Res.44 would condemn the rule, sending the message that Congress is oblivious to the mass shootings that have turned the places where Americans work, shop, celebrate, and learn into killing fields." Source: National Education Association (NEA Letter Urges House to vote NO on Resolution Condemning a Gun Rule)

•    "The Administration strongly opposes H.J. Res. 44, Disapproving the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rule relating to "Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached 'Stabilizing Braces'". For decades, Federal law has placed stricter regulations on certain types of firearms, including short-barreled rifles. The rationale is clear: short-barreled rifles are more concealable than long guns, yet more dangerous and accurate at a distance than traditional pistols. For these reasons, they are particularly lethal, which is why Congress has deemed them to be dangerous and unusual weapons subject to strict regulation since 1934. Recently, however, the gun industry has circumvented this longstanding law by manufacturing and selling so-called “stabilizing braces” that convert heavy pistols into short-barreled rifles." Source: The White House (Press Release) 

•    "This resolution seeks to repeal reasonable restrictions on deadly weapons, at a time when gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and youth in the United States. H.J. Res. 44 would nullify the Biden-Harris administration’s stabilizing arm brace rule, which keeps dangerous firearms out of dangerous hands by requiring that guns equipped with stabilizing arm braces are subject to the same requirements as weapons with the same firepower. This rule makes it harder for individuals intending to inflict carnage and take lives to obtain these weapons, and it should remain in place in order to save more lives." Source: Rep. Betty McCollum (Democrat, Minnesota, District 4)