But They're Right This Time

I've been saying that the stabilizing brace on a pistol was a stock since SIG first got their permission letter from BATFE.

If it is a stock, then a braced pistol is a Short Barrel Rifle.

Check the legal definitions.  Black letter law agrees.

Another BATFE exception which is in violation of the black letter law is allowing curio and relic guns with a period design stock to skip SBR registration.

The ATF giveth and the ATF taketh away.

Sadly, that there are many disabled people who benefit from the use of a brace is irrelevant to the law.

Ultimately, the solution is making short barreled rifles normal firearms by law.

With the current resident of The White House and composition of Congress, that ain't gonna happen.

I worry that the present fight to retain ATF's ruling is wasting political capitol for a temporary gain.

Should we get a favorable wind in DC again, I think we can point that all these people with braces mounted who are using them like stocks proves that short barreled rifles aren't a criminal issue.

Which we also know is true because if criminals were being arrested with braced pistols we'd be seeing it in every news report supporting gun control and the suppression of braces.

A complete repeal of the NFA and GCA would also solve the problem.  More unlikely than a piecemeal dismantling of them, but acceptable.

The normies are scared of machine guns, and we'd get our asses reamed proposing making them available for sale just like normal guns.

BUT!

We can show the normies that what amounts to an SBR is already out there, in the wild, unregistered and only as restricted as a regular gun and causing additional problems.  If we dig hard, I suspect we're going to see that braced pistols are less of a problem than normal handguns.