Arm Brace Ruling and Amnesty The guidance given by the ATF on which guns would be reclassified as SBRs was fuzzy to say the least. Every post on social media accuses every firearm pictured with an arm brace to be an SBR and the person posting it to be in violation of the law.“If t...
Around that time, a few different companies devised the now-commonplace pistol braces, which are intended to brace the arm and not to be shouldered. In 2014, the ATF issued a memorandum stating that an AR pistol was not an SBR, even if fired from the shoulder using a brace, and there ...