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To: alternatives?
Are the pistol braces illegal to own regardless of whether they are on a gun or not?

No, the ATF cannot regulate accessories. Pistol braces are perfectly legal to own.

HOWEVER, (and there always is a 'however,') if you own a pistol, and that pistol can accept a brace (because it has a carbine style buffer tube, or other adapter), and you have a pistol brace in a box but not on the pistol, you are in what the ATF calls "constructive possession" and are still in possession of what the ATF is calling a Short Barreled Rifle.

Your pistols must not be capable of readily accepting a pistol brace in order to have the brace be just a lump of plastic and velcro.

14 posted on 02/01/2023 9:38:59 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo

So, by the ATF’s reasoning, if you own an AR pistol and an AR rifle of the same caliber, you could be guilty of “constructive possession”? You could, after all, swap a sort barreled pistol upper onto a rifle lower with a stock.


40 posted on 02/01/2023 10:27:50 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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