WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led eleven colleagues in condemning the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s refusal to seek immediate appellate relief from a recent district court decision striking down key regulatory requirements of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA).
In a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Senators expressed serious concerns about DOJ's failure to vigorously defend the NFA, a foundational federal gun violence prevention law that regulates some of the most dangerous concealable weapons in the country.
"For months, DOJ has defended the NF...