Just click on the comment button at the top to begin making a comment against the ATF reclassifying a stabilizing brace as NFA that would require registering with the ATF as a short barrel rifle and a $200 tax per gun.
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Here is a sample from Gun Owners of America you can cut and paste if you don't want to write one yourself.
The ATF MUST immediately withdraw its proposed rules to criminalize pistol braces.
According to your own reports, 3 million pistol braces have been sold since 2013. However, a Congressional Research Service report recently put out a more accurate estimate that there are perhaps upwards of 40,000,000 pistol braces and pistol-braced firearms in common use. This new rule would make each and every one of these devices worthless and a felony if not registered.
You would be turning millions of otherwise law-abiding gun owners into FELONS overnight.
Moreover, your own research shows that this proposed rule would cost the gun industry and everyday gun-owners, who are already struggling to navigate through our country's economic hardships, tens - if not hundreds - of millions of dollars in conversions, taxes, and destruction of their own property.
In fact, the new ATF "test" to determine if a pistol counts as a pistol is unfeasible for millions of law-abiding citizens.
It appears that the ATF has intentionally designed its Factoring Criteria for Rifled Barrel Weapons with Accessories Commonly Referred to as "Stabilizing Braces" to effect a complete ban of every pistol-braced firearm currently on the market.
Reviewing the ATF's proposed "worksheet" that would be used to classify firearms as either legal pistols or illegal short-barreled rifles, literally **NO** pistol-braced firearms would count as a pistol.
Yet 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.
Moreover, under Section II, virtually all (if not all) pistol braces on the market-including those previously approved for sale by ATF-would receive more than four allowed "points," meaning the firearm would be classified as a short-barreled rifle.
And who would this proposal even help?
The ATF has arbitrarily decided that a Pistol AR is a "gangster type weapon," despite criminals actually preferring handguns to rifles.
Your proposed rules would do nothing but crush law-abiding gun owners, trample upon our Second Amendment rights, and risk turning us into felons with the stroke of a pen.
I demand the ATF withdraw its proposed rule on pistol braces immediately."
Regulations.gov
Here is a sample from Gun Owners of America you can cut and paste if you don't want to write one yourself.
The ATF MUST immediately withdraw its proposed rules to criminalize pistol braces.
According to your own reports, 3 million pistol braces have been sold since 2013. However, a Congressional Research Service report recently put out a more accurate estimate that there are perhaps upwards of 40,000,000 pistol braces and pistol-braced firearms in common use. This new rule would make each and every one of these devices worthless and a felony if not registered.
You would be turning millions of otherwise law-abiding gun owners into FELONS overnight.
Moreover, your own research shows that this proposed rule would cost the gun industry and everyday gun-owners, who are already struggling to navigate through our country's economic hardships, tens - if not hundreds - of millions of dollars in conversions, taxes, and destruction of their own property.
In fact, the new ATF "test" to determine if a pistol counts as a pistol is unfeasible for millions of law-abiding citizens.
It appears that the ATF has intentionally designed its Factoring Criteria for Rifled Barrel Weapons with Accessories Commonly Referred to as "Stabilizing Braces" to effect a complete ban of every pistol-braced firearm currently on the market.
Reviewing the ATF's proposed "worksheet" that would be used to classify firearms as either legal pistols or illegal short-barreled rifles, literally **NO** pistol-braced firearms would count as a pistol.
Yet 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.
Moreover, under Section II, virtually all (if not all) pistol braces on the market-including those previously approved for sale by ATF-would receive more than four allowed "points," meaning the firearm would be classified as a short-barreled rifle.
And who would this proposal even help?
The ATF has arbitrarily decided that a Pistol AR is a "gangster type weapon," despite criminals actually preferring handguns to rifles.
Your proposed rules would do nothing but crush law-abiding gun owners, trample upon our Second Amendment rights, and risk turning us into felons with the stroke of a pen.
I demand the ATF withdraw its proposed rule on pistol braces immediately."
