Posted on 06/11/2021 5:49:24 AM PDT by marktwain
On 7 June, 2021, the Attorney General signed a “proposed rule” about the regulation of arm braces for pistols. The ATF has put the “proposed rule” on its website.
The “proposed rule” can be seen as a trial balloon. It has no legal authority, as it has not been officially published in the Federal Register. Once officially published, the public can make comments for 90 days once the proposed rule has been published.
Significantly, the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, signed this trial balloon, and not the acting head of the ATF.
The document arbitrarily states short-barreled rifles and shotguns are “dangerous and unusual”. Of course, all weapons are dangerous, otherwise, they would not be weapons. But all weapons are not unusual.
Banning short-barreled rifles and shotguns was not the intent of the law in 1934. The intent was to regulate “gangster weapons”.
Pistols were seen as subject to abuse. Sawed-off shotguns were seen as used by gangsters. Sawed-off rifles were added, virtually as an afterthought. This is why the overall length of 26 inches was included.
It makes no sense to consider short-barreled rifles as “dangerous and unusual” but to have pistols as constitutionally protected. The NRA lobbied congress to remove pistols from the law, which was done. Short barreled shotguns and rifles were left in as booby prizes for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration.
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Dems can’t get laws passed so they get their bureaucrat toadies to make “rules”. There ought to be an amendment to the constitution that prevents any government agency from making a rule that will penalize anyone in any way that is not backed up by constitutionally passed laws.
Also, could you imagine an extended barrel handgun (like the extended pistols.. maybe 12”).. lol
The Auto Ordnance Thompson carbine have a fixed stock and 18” barrel. They also make a pistol version on the same action that has a 10.5” barrel but does not take a buttstock.
I stand corrected. I just checked their site and one model they make does have a detachable stock. Not sure how they classify that one.
No one has any moral or legal right to interfere with a person’s ability to keep and bear arms.
People who take action to interfere with this right are guilty of crimes against humanity.
They should be tried, convicted, sentenced, and duly executed.
One of the grading criteria is “length of pull”. How do you measure that on a brace?
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