ATF Clarifies Legality of AR Pistol Arm Brace Use

ammoland ^ | 25 April, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Late in 2012, the ATF approved of a device that fit on the buffer tube of AR-15 style pistols. It made one handed shooting of these firearms much easier, and hence more accurate.

The SB15 was invented by a disabled veteran, Alex Bosco. He quickly sold the rights to produce the arm brace to Sig Sauer. As you can see, the device can also be used as a very short stock for the AR-15 pistol, even though that is not what it is designed for.  Many people have put the brace to this use, as it is much easier to purchase AR-15 pistols and a brace than it is to go through all the bureaucratic and bizarre requirements to obtain a legal short barreled rifle (SBR) or short barreled shotgun (SBS). The legal restrictions on SBS and SBR firearms never made any sense. They only made sense if the federal government put the same restriction on handguns, as FDR attempted to do in 1934. That attempt failed, due in large part because of lobbying by the NRA.

In 2015, the ATF issued an open letter claiming that using the arm brace as a shoulder stock was a “redesign” of the pistol as an SBR.

The pistol stabilizing brace was neither “designed” nor approved to be used as a shoulder stock, and therefore use as a shoulder stock constitutes a “redesign” of the device because a possessor has changed the very function of the item. Any individual letters stating otherwise are contrary to the plain language of the NFA, misapply Federal law, and are hereby revoked.

Any person who intends to use a handgun stabilizing brace as a shoulder stock on a pistol

[marktwain]

The pistol arm brace shows the utter insanity of the entire concept of short barreled pistols and short barreled shotguns.

There is no reason to treat them any differently in the law than pistols or rifles or shotguns. If conceal-ability is the issue, treat them the same as pistols.

[Dutch Boy]

It sounds like this this ruling by the ATF that they may be relaxing the idea of trying to control the people via regulations of objects. Lets hope the trend continues.

Few, if any on the left, and unfortunately too many on the right fail to comprehend that a law abiding person with an M-60 machine gun and a million rounds of ammo is safer than a thug with a hammer. It’s not the object that is the problem. It’s the unlawful or reckless use of it. That is what should be regulated. I wished someone in authority could articulate that publicly.

[sevlex]

What the ATF giveth the ATF taketh away.

[LouAvul]

Agreed. We have no need for any laws concerning firearms or firearms ownership.

What we need, and something liberals refuse to understand, is common sense criminal control. If a criminal commits a capital crime, he should be executed immediately. If a criminal commits a violent crime, he should be incarcerated indefinitely.

If we punished criminals adequately, we wouldn't need any type of gun control. Or, gun laws for that matter.

[RedStateRocker]

See my tagline.

Get the hell rid of the ATF.

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