Additionally, Richard has led efforts to push back against stabilizing brace regulations from the ATF that would turn millions of law-abiding citizens, including disabled combat veterans, into felons overnight.
Push back against ATF stabilizing brace regulations that would turn law-abiding citizens, including disabled combat veterans, into felons.
Occurrences
Evidence
ATF says it is "proposing to formally rescind" the 2023 stabilizing-brace rule; it adds that courts have enjoined, stayed, or vacated it.
The proposed rule would amend DOJ regulations on firearms with attached stabilizing braces and remove the 2023 paragraphs defining shoulder-fired rifles.
ATF states it is proposing to rescind the 2023 stabilizing-brace rule and says multiple federal courts have already enjoined, stayed, or vacated it.
Assessments
The ATF has moved to propose rescinding the 2023 stabilizing-brace rule, and federal courts have already limited the rule, so the promised pushback is materially underway. But the rescission is not yet finalized, and the evidence does not show Richard Hudson as the decisive actor rather than a broader agency/court-driven outcome, so this is partial credit rather than full delivery.
Hudson did materially push back against the ATF stabilizing-brace rule, including leading a Congressional Review Act resolution aimed at blocking it and publicly framing the rule as threatening law-abiding gun owners and disabled veterans. The promised policy outcome has not been fully completed because the 2026 ATF action is a proposed rescission, not a finalized repeal, though courts have already enjoined, stayed, or vacated the rule and ATF is formally moving to undo it while Hudson remains in federal office. That supports partial credit in the same-term context rather than full delivery.