Exercising the Right
Brace Yourself
Fox News reported on January 14 about the Biden administration’s latest attempts to encroach on the Second Amendment. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) published new rules on January 13 that made it much more difficult for gun owners to buy stabilizing braces for pistols. Pistol-stabilizing braces were invented more than a decade ago by a man who was attempting to help a disabled veteran fire his pistol with one hand. The brace was approved by the ATF in 2012 and has become a very popular accessory for gun owners.
The pistol brace attaches to the rear of the gun like a buttstock and has a strap or some other mechanism to attach to the shooter’s forearm, assisting with stabilizing the pistol. Of course, it is possible to use a brace similar to a buttstock and fire the gun from one’s shoulder.
Pistol braces ended up on the Biden administration’s radar after a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, in which the gunman used a firearm with a stabilizing brace as a rifle, firing from the shoulder. The administration announced its plans to restrict accessory braces shortly after the shooting, and the ATF has now finalized a rule that requires gun owners to either remove stabilizing braces from a firearm, destroy them, surrender them to federal agents, or register guns using braces with the ATF as short-barreled rifles, which are heavily regulated.
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