A small part of it, I think so.
There have been other devices and "parts" that ATF has been..., shall we say, "concerned" over, to include the 50 round 10/22 magazine, the so-called "flash suppressors", and others.
The jack-booted thugs attempt to call every thing a duck, even if it moos, whinnies or chirps, for no other reason than to protect their overpaid, do-nothing, sit-on-their-asses jobs.
Bunch of stinking idiots, in my humble opinion.
We don't need them.
Period.
I'm thinking that it is, but I can't be completely certain.
Tangentially. The players in the Class III and NFA community are a small group pretty well known to each other. They are the "top of the heap"/"kings of the hill" willing to jump through as many flaming hoops as necessary to pursue their goals.
Mostly out of sight to the rest of us the decisions they make "to go along to get along" have an enormous impact on both the culture of the ATF and every gunowner in America or even every future gunowner in America-even more than FFL's.
The fact a major player like Len Savage is willing to go public over the abuses of the last few years is tantamount to war on Olympus.
Akins Accelerator is just one of a class of devices to use the precise definition of the law to restore liberty to the disenfranchised 2nd Amendment Community. That class of devices is now under assault from an nearly unaccountable bureaucracy.
If there is ever a review of ATF prosecutions over the last half century, the horror stories that come to light will rival any horror story ever told about the IRS.
You owe it to yourself to get a copy of the JPFO DVD that documents the ATF inspection of an "illegal rifle"
It will pretty much tell you everything you need to know about the ATF.
Best regards,