Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Shall Not Be Infringed Act is a comprehensive repeal of every Second Amendment infringement passed by the 117th Congress and signed by President Biden. This includes the gun control contained in (1) the Cornyn-Murphy Sellout, known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, (2) the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022, (3) the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, and (4) the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. Cosponsoring Rep. Boebert’s legislation sends a strong message that the Second Amendment SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.
Sec. 2: Repealing Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 Gun Control
Public Law 117-328 enacted the following gun controls1 which are unconstitutional and repealed by this act:
Sec. 3: Repealing Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Gun Control
Public Law 117-159 enacted the following gun controls which are unconstitutional and repealed by this act:
Sec. 4 and 5: Repealing Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 Gun Control
While GOA members were successful in demanding some gun control be struck from the original Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) proposal, the following gun controls20 were retained and are repealed in this act:
Sec. 6: Repealing James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 Gun Control23
In this military funding appropriations which became Public Law 117-347, there was a provision (Section 595) which created a program for storing firearms which can be used to justify a nation-wide mandatory safe-storage program which is repealed by the Shall Not Be Infringed Act.24
1 Johnston. “GOA Fact Sheet – Gun Control Problems with FY 2023 Omnibus Appropriations”. Gun Owners of America. December 21st, 2022.
2 Repealed by Section 2(a) “Eliminating ATF Budget Increase”.
3 Repealed by Section 2(b) “Preventing Gun Registry Expansion”.
4 Repealed by Section 3(c) “Section 12003 of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”.
5 Repealed by Section 2(c) “Protecting Veterans from Gun Confiscation”.
6 Repealed by Section 2(e) “Preventing the Department of Education from Violating the Privacy of Gun Owning Parents”.
7 Repealed by Section 2(d) “Protecting Veterans Access to Firearms”.
8 Repealed by Section 2(f) “Preventing HHS From Implementing Gun Confiscation Policies or Promoting Reduced Access to the Second Amendment”.
9 Repealed by Section 2(g) “Reducing ATF Benefits”.
10 Repealed by Section 2(h) “Recission of Unused Gun Control Earmark Funding”.
11 Repealed by Section 2(i) “Preventing Anti-Gun Activism by CDC and NIH”.
12 Repealed by Section 2(j) “Gun Rights Are Women’s Rights”.
13 Repealed by Section 2(k) “Preventing Misuse of Community Violence Intervention Initiatives”.
14 Repealed by Section 2(l) “Preventing the Targeting of Patriots as Domestic Violent Extremists”.
15 Madajian. “Cornyn-Murphy Gun Control’s Disastrous Consequences”. Gun Owners of America. March 10th, 2023.
Repealed by Section 3(c) “Section 12003 of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”.
16 Johnston. “Despite GOA Warnings, Republicans Helped the Biden Administration Implement Backdoor UBCs”. Gun Owners of America. March 14th, 2023.
See also “FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities Safer”. White House. March 14th, 2023.
Repealed by Section 3(b) “Section 12002 of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”.
17 Johnston. “18–20-Year-Old Enhanced Checks are DANGEROUS”. Gun Owners of America. June 15th, 2022.
Repealed by Section 3(a) “Section 12001 of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”.
18 Johnston. “Cornyn-Murphy’s Vague Definition of “Dating Relationship”. Gun Owners of America. 2022.
Repealed by Section 3(d) “Section 12005 of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”.19
Madajian. “Domestic Violence Offenders Incentivized to Force Abortions”. Gun Owners of America. 2022.
20 Johnston. “In Under 48 Hours, VAWA Gun Control Was Rammed Through Congress”. Gun Owners of America. March 11th, 2022.
21 Repealed by Section 4 “Repeal of the NICS Denial Notification Act”.
22 Repealed by Section 5 “Repeal of Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys and Cross-Deputized Attorneys Enforcing Federal Gun Control Laws”.
23 Johnston. “Pelosi passes gun control before her Speakership ends”. Gun Owners of America. December 12th, 2022.
24 Repealed by Section 6 “Repeal of Unconstitutional Pilot Program on Safe Storage of Personally Owned Firearms”.