Will Removing Your Pistol Brace Make Any Difference With the ATF?
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 1 month ago
BLUF: Probably so. It removes the offending piece.
We’ve covered this in previous posts. I still believe this is all a gigantic trap. It’s a way for the ATF to come to your door, demand your firearms, measure them, take data on them, log your serial numbers, and then make up their minds depending on the capricious “decision of the day.” The entire point is to expand the gun registry.
Also see Tim’s discussion.
Also make sure to drop by David’s piece on this.
On October 3, 2022 at 1:54 pm, Houston said:
The AR genie is out of the bottle. No way the ATF can control it all. Short barrel uppers are not serialized and are prolific. Being able to totally separate from the serialized lower they can be purchased and stored anywhere. The owner can have a 16 inch or longer barreled upper normally attached and when the US becomes a nation without rule of law and the normally law abiding owner becomes an outlaw felon, for any number of reasons, the short barrels can come out of hiding if needed. ATF can’t control this and they know it. Even if the owner wants to have a pistol and uses a pistol only buffer tube it is only a five minute job to make an SBR.
On October 3, 2022 at 3:27 pm, jb said:
I wonder what the culpability is for sellers of braced AR-15 pistols is. They sold them lawfully, and they were transferred lawfully to the buyer. Should they become NFA items then why shouldnt the sellers bear responsibility ? The same applies to bump stocks.
On October 4, 2022 at 9:38 am, Paul B said:
Once you have a registered SBR it retains that designation forever. Or at least that was the ATF position when I was looking at getting one. Never did get one though as it struck me as a solution in search of a problem.
That and I do not trust the government one iota.