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September 1, 2016, 09:58 AM | #1 |
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ATF Shifting on Forearm Pistol Stabilization Braces?
Here is the ATF review letter for the Sig Brace (Nov 26 2012):
http://sigsauer.com/upFiles/ATF-Compliant-Letter.pdf Here is the ATF review letter of the Blade Brace (Dec 15 2014): http://shockwavetechnologies.com/site/?p=2114 Here is the ATF review letter for the Accu-Pistol Brace (June 7 2016): http://www.accupistolbrace.com/legal-info.html Hi Everyone, I just wanted to point something out that might be important: Notice in the review letter for the Accu-Pistol Brace, the ATF was much more detailed and added a few additional factors in their analysis of whether attaching the brace to a firearm creates an NFA item compared to their prior decisions. Namely, the ATF did not simply review the standard configuration the brace was intended and designed for according to the manufacturer. They also actually attached the brace to a pistol and looked for other possible configurations for the device which would make an NFA firearm. In looking at alternate configurations, the ATF looked for two things: A- A length of pull of "approximately 13.5-14.5 inches" or more in an alternate possible configuration. B- Design features similar to those of shoulder fired weapons. So the point here is, with this new analysis, the ATF appears to be saying: If you have a product that has design features similar to a shoulder stock, and there is a possible alternate configuration in which your product, when attached to a pistol, creates a length of pull of approximately 13.5 inches or more, then you probably have an NFA firearm. (to be sure you have to send the actual sample to the ATF for review and they will tell you in about 6-10 months) Then there is also the "constructive possession" doctrine. Meaning if you have in your possession both something that can be used as a shoulder stock + a pistol it can attach to, you are possibly in constructive possession of an NFA firearm even if they are not attached to each other. By adding the "alternate configuration" analysis, the ATF appears to be moving to close the door on the possession of: an AR pistol + a forearm brace with shoulder stock design features + an alternate configuration to the AR pistol which produces "design features similar to those of shoulder fired weapons" + a length of pull of "approximately 13.5-14.5 inches". I am not sure how significant of a change this is, or what kinds of products this might effect, but I thought it was important to point out. We don't need anyone to get in trouble out there. |
September 1, 2016, 10:17 AM | #2 |
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Geez, don't get me started on what I think of the BATFE and their goofy rules, and what seems like weekly changes of those goofy rules.
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September 1, 2016, 01:02 PM | #4 |
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Legislation by regulation. Isn't that the plan?
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September 1, 2016, 03:51 PM | #6 |
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That would be very comforting while you rot in prison.
They are not as capricious as they could be; John Browning's first machine gun was a lever action rifle modified with a "flapper" over the muzzle that recocked the action. Since any gun that can be "readily converted" to a machine gun IS a machine gun, ATF could easily rule every lever action rifle a machine gun, and it would become law. They don't decide based on law, they create law.
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September 1, 2016, 05:13 PM | #7 |
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I fail to see any shift. If the add-on device converts a handgun into a shoulder-fired firearm, it's an NFA device. What's the change?
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I didn't read any of the links but I kind of thought maybe there was a chance they might change their mind at some point.
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Oh, who could have known?! This is why people shouldn't have taken the ATF's stupid third or fourth or whatever number it is ruling on the SIG brace lying down, simply because it allowed them to keep their SIG braces.
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Pretty clear what's happening here; the ATF is going after SIG full-bore for the MPX series rifles, whose entire purpose it seems was to make them look like fools (between the long muzzle brake and shipping them with short barrels & braces instead when the Bureau refused to see reason on the matter) Quote:
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Instead of finding the language stipulating that everything that could possibly form a silencer component was a silencer component is plainly and obviously over broad, especially in the modern world of dual-use items whose mere existence does not define intent, or that the ATF's own view on the matter is that only silencer tubes are silencers & must be registered/regulated unlike monocores or baffles, or that even intent to reduce sound signature extends far beyond silencers to all sorts of devices and configurations long accepted as legal (long barrels, fake silencers, blast diffusers, 'mouse fart' loads, etc.) and is therefore a rather poor measure for determining an object's "silencer" status...they basically let the ATF invent entirely new language of the same scope found in the law (minimum/maximum lengths of configurations) without any sort of congressional approval, and applied that newly-minted standard retroactively to the opposition in that very case so their appeal could be denied (at the ATF's direction, not the court's). These braces are similar in that respect; they CAN be used as shoulder stocks, but they can also be used as braces or visual accessories that are not used as shoulder stocks (for that matter, so can shoulder stocks, proper). The notion that a sufficiently long barrel turns a buffer tube at the other end of the gun into a stock is absurd. There is an important distinction between 'inclusive' and 'exclusive' language, and how they effect the scope of a law's reach. Exclusive laws conservatively restrict the effect to only those topics explicitly laid out ahead of time; "this, this, and this are banned, and nothing else." Inclusive laws are intentionally vague so as to extend the reach of the law as far as possible, or rather, as far as can be argued in a complicit court (i.e. limitless). "All scary-looking rifles are banned" is this type of language, since all possible future 'scary' rifles will be effected, as well as anything that can be represented to court as 'scary' or a 'rifle.' It's a very important distinction, since it is fundamentally why "innocent until proven guilty" is the rule instead of "guilty until proven innocent." And since these braces & silencers ultimately fall under criminal law, it is very curious indeed why the *potential* *possible* *alternate* use of the items is what determines a person's guilt, rather than how they were actually using them. TCB
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This is why I just went ahead and SBR'd my AK with the SB-47 brace. Not worth the fuss. Sig has been pushing it for years. Everyone knows what they're trying to do.
Not that I care, but I don't want good folks getting jammed up because they are trying to push the envelope and sell their guns. |
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