WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison, who led the effort to expand gun rights in Missouri when he was a member of the state Senate, is now going after a cornerstone federal gun law used by the Department of Justice to reduce gun violence.
As a state senator in 2021, Burlison successfully pushed for a state law that stops local police from enforcing certain federal gun laws. On Tuesday, the freshman Republican from southwest Missouri introduced his first bill in Congress, a plan to repeal a 1934 law that taxes the manufacturing and sale of certain guns and requires owners to register those guns.
“The Repeal the NFA Act will strip the ATF of its authority to criminalize lawful gun owners and will undo nearly 90 years of assault on fundamental freedoms,” Burlison said in a press release. “I’m proud to stand with and support Americans nationwide as we take this issue head-on.”
