Justice

The present brouhaha about pistol stabilizing braces is an injustice.

No doubt about it.

But, you have to remember that this is also about the law, and the law is only tangentially related to justice most of the time.

The reason there's a lack of sympathy from a few quarters is they warned that the process that ATF had used to allow braces was the same flawed, and likely illegal, process we'd condemned repeatedly when ATF used it to restrict our rights.

I have sympathy for the people who are getting caught up in this.

If the upper estimate is correct, 40-million people.

It sucks for them.

It's not clear what they should do and I don't think that anyone set out to break the law.  If they had, they would have just put a normal stock on their SBR and called it done.  Instead they were led to believe that they weren't breaking the law because ATF exceeded their authority in telling them they could make an SBR without registration.

Lots of people, however, were definitely making a braced pistol as a means of obtaining a short barreled rifle without going through the process of getting a tax stamp.  This is likely why ATF is reversing their ruling which was originally intended to allow braces to be used for their stated purpose.

In a couple of locales, this also sidestepped state and local laws against owning a, so-called, assault-weapon or a prohibition on NFA items.

These folks are really sweating now.  They're also being very vocal.

Are their voices being heard where the laws can be changed?  Because changing the law is all that will save them from jail if they keep their gun.

We're also hearing from the people whom these things were originally intended to help.

One impassioned post from someone with limited arm use who shot a pistol from a bipod until that got declared a vertical grip and is now poised to lose his brace because of this ruling.  It's not even a legal issue for him, it's the ability to do something he enjoys at all.  Ever notice how much legislation is aimed at preventing people from having fun?

The problem isn't even ATF.  The problem is the law.  Fix the law and the ATF gets corrected by default.

Get your congress creatures to tack an NFA repeal onto EVERYTHING.  Especially things that the liberals feel they must have.

But "our" side is working loopholes and hoping the courts save us.

Eventually, the courts just might.  Until then, someone is staring down felony charges, or even a felony conviction because they have a less effective rifle that's difficult to conceal carry.