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ATF proposed rule on stabilizing braces
Here's their explanation, and here's the text of the proposed rule. Once it hits the Federal Register, we'll have 90 days to comment,
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They say the SBA3 fails to wrap around the arm when it clearly does.
Is there a US Government Standard Minimum Wrist Diameter that I am unaware of? Will wrists smaller than that diameter be a disqualifying factor in government service? Will small wristed individuals be eligible for disability because they lack government standard arms?
I'll have to give their work sheet some thought and see how it all applies. Right now it still sounds like the old definition of pornography- "I'll know it when I see it".
This "rule" will be about as effective as the bump-stock ban. The last numbers I saw were less than 1000 turned in by private citizens, out of half a million sold.
It will be just another charge that can be piled on if one of the unapproved braces is found.
How many owners will decide "Since the penalty for putting a brace on an AR pistol is now the same as putting a stock on an AR pistol, f*** it" and put a stock on an AR pistol?
This problem is created by the law (actually a multiplicity of inconsistent laws as the proposed rule is forced to admit) itself, which is a collection of myths, indeed fantasies, the central fantasy being that there is an essential difference between a rifle and a pistol (or a shotgun and a pistol, for that matter), when in fact a pistol is just a short shotgun or rifle, the degree of shortness entirely a matter of interpretation or judgment. Worse yet for the situation, when one searches the devices which are offered as "stabilizing braces" those are generally nothing but short buttstocks, which I must presume are being offered consistent with current law and rules. How the proposed rule might change this, if at all, remains obscure if not imponderable.
So how do they think they are going to enforce these new regulations against all the owners who already have such guns ?