Posted on 12/24/2020 8:58:15 AM PST by rktman
After outcry from Second Amendment groups and members of Congress, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has rescinded recently released guidance reclassifying millions of pistol stabilizing braces.
"Upon further consultation with the Department of Justice and the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, ATF is withdrawing, pending further Department of Justice review, the notice and request for comments entitled “Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with ‘Stabilizing Braces’,” that was published on December 18, 2020," ATF released in a statement Wednesday.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is praising the move and advocating for transparency and cooperation from the agency in the future.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
If the treasonous coup stands, it will come back and riffle slings will be labeled as “stabilizing braces” - Hell stocks, shoulder pads, and grips will also become “stabilizing braces”.
For now, if/when Harris/Biden is president, expect this to return.
Oddly, my link to the comments page still functions, and gives every appearance of still accepting comments. Which appears to conflict with the news that the order has been rescinded and that the comments are no longer being accepted (which I read elsewhere was the case).
The "further DOJ review" will come from the Biden administration.
He must now, MUST NOT, be allowed to take office.
Thus, a ‘temporary stay’. Merry Christmas.
—yep—the bill is already waiting in the wings—
Yes, the Federal Register link still works, because the ATF withdrawal letter hasn't been published in the register yet.
Holidays and all.
Great!
I don’t personally want an AR pistol -or- SBR.
However:
1. My liberty-mindedness says if YOU want one... you have the uninfringible right to it, and
2. If I did want one, I’d have a carbine-length upper installed and a short-barrelled upper in the closet. Two pins and done, if the thing is necessary and the LE agencies too busy or too defunded to notice.
Item 2 reflects my attitude toward CCW or CPL or whatever you want to call the permission slips one “must” buy in order to carry the way you want: I’m NOT getting one, and if the situation calls for it, I’ll just carry without one and let the chips— and spent cartridge casings— fall where they may.
Unconstitutional agencies need to be ABOLISHED!
Especially those that directly threaten abrogation of American citizens’ Constitutional rights
Was this some of the bagpiper’s work one last time. Was this the reason for his (firing) departure.
I don’t favor confiscation of guns but because of the boat accident, I don’t have any to give up.
Okay, enough with all this defund the local LEO groups. I DEMAND the batf be defunded. And the fbi and the Department of INjustice How about that?
Merry Christmas.
You possessing a short barrel anything without an SBR or legal pistol receiver in your collection is enough to get you in hot water. Much like buying a stock or vertical grip when all your other arms are short barreled pistols. The order of acquisition matters. Or at least it did.
I’ve stayed out of the pistol brace arena of mods as I never liked the direction it was going. They are almost always used as a stock and now they are even adjustable in length. No wonder the BATF is looking at this abuse of their original intent. I just see it as a “matter of time” issue that will result in a ban due to stretching the boundaries so wide that these devices are really no different than a stock.
Still lots of advantages with a pistol AR. Might be having one in the collection.
Beto is sad..
...be worth having one in the collection.
So, if someone removes the stock on a JTS 12 gauge shotgun and installs a folding stock, is that now questionable weapon?
Agreed, but this is more of just a pause in pursuit of their real goal. Firearms and anything possibly related to firearms is just getting in their way.
Jobs
1, do away with the ATF
2. forbid any state to have an agency that goes against
the spirit of the second amendment.
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