Unlike the ATF’s ruling on bump stocks, where the mere possession of a disassembled bump stock and a firearm that it could be attached to constitutes a machine gun, there is no such provision in the pistol brace ruling. Therefore, disassembly and possession of an unattached brace does not ...
U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley objected to a proposed federal rule that would recategorize most firearms using pistol braces.
Does this mean new pistol brace policies might be coming? It might. It’s mysterious why the pistol braces are such a priority both for gun control advocates and for the ATF, given how little crime is committed with short- or standard-barrel rifles. However, as the philosopher Collins obser...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)explainedthat ATF previously wrote a letter to Alex Bosco, the brace inventor, saying attaching the accessory “does not convert that weapon to be fired from the shoulder and would not alter the classification of a pistol or other firearm.” “Between this letter b...