This is is revenge for the Benitez decision
?BREAKING: Pistol-braced Gun BAN Incoming@JoeBiden’s @ATFHQ & @TheJusticeDepartment released new proposed regulations surrounding the popular accessory known as a “Pistol Stabilizing Brace”
Almost NO existing pistol-braced firearms pass ATF’s new arbitrary pistol test⤵️ pic.twitter.com/TtrDSWXjdU
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
Today’s proposed rulemaking on pistol-braced firearms represents a gross abuse of executive authority.
Millions of otherwise law-abiding gun owners now will be forced to destroy, register, or surrender their lawfully-acquired pistol-braced firearms.https://t.co/uCsUV12ks4
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
⚠️ It appears that ATF has intentionally designed its Factoring Criteria for Rifled Barrel Weapons w/ Accessories Commonly Referred to as “Stabilizing Braces” to effect a complete ban of every pistol-braced firearm currently on the market
Read it here⤵️https://t.co/TB7tKS0Fuk
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
Specifically, ATF proposes to create a “worksheet” to be used to classify firearms as either legal pistols or illegal short-barreled rifles. Yet under that framework, literally nothing would count as a pistol.
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
Most pistol-braced firearms would fail Section I of the worksheet, because all but the shortest AR-style firearms are over ATF’s new 26-inch limit on a pistol’s maximum length.https://t.co/gv3REN10Jp
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
And if any firearm and brace happened to make it through to Section III of the worksheet, it would quickly rack up enough additional points that it would be considered an SBR under ATF’s arbitrary standards.https://t.co/m52FwIG1dn
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
Finally, without even using its worksheet, ATF’s proposed rule would outright ban the use of braces on popular “firearms” such as the Mossberg Shockwave and the Remington TAC 14‼️ pic.twitter.com/88JekXrKl5
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
Gun owners are disgusted by today’s blatant infringement on their right to keep arms by the Biden Administration@GunOwners of America will work to defeat these unlawful regulations during the comment period or, failing that, through legal action.
— Aidan Johnston (@RealGunLobbyist) June 7, 2021
There are no coincidences in politics.
This was just finished by the ATF, they have been sitting on this.
The gun-rights community celebrated the Roger Benitez decision overturning California’s AWB so the Biden DOJ drops this on us to remind us of our place.
There are millions of braces on the market. They have been available since the ATF signed off on them in 2013. They have turned into a sort of cottage industry with small accessories companies designing and manufacturing braces of all sorts.
Several large manufacturers include aftermarket braces as OEM equipment on pistols.
By now, a braced pistol should be considered a firearm in common use.
This is entirely an act of revenge against the gun community by the Biden DOJ, to take away freedom because we gained freedom last Friday.