Firearm Accessory Regulation and Enforcing Federal and State Reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System: The Independent Institute

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

Firearm Accessory Regulation and Enforcing Federal and State Reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

Hearing on S. 1916 (Sen. Feinstein) and S. 2135 (Sen. Cornyn) Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate

December 8, 2017

By Stephen P. Halbrook

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Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Feinstein, and members of the Committee:

I appear as an attorney who has litigated extensively under the Gun Control Act, including issues concerning the Brady background check law2 and technical definitions under the Gun Control Act.3 I represented a majority of members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives as amici curiae in D.C. v. Heller.4 I am the author of books on Second Amendment issues.5 I will address S. 1916, the Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act, and S. 2135, the Fix NICS Act.

Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the Independent books The Right to Bear Arms, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, Gun Control in the Third Reich, The Founders’ Second Amendment and That Every Man Be Armed.